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Billy Joe Armstrong Wrote Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) Long Before Dookie

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The frontman of Green Day wrote the song as early as 1990. He didn’t bring it to the band’s attention until the Dookie sessions.

They ended up not using it because it was much different from the rest of the material. The song is on Nimrod and it was the official theme for the PGA Tour in 1998. Who was the band that played their first and last show at the same venue? Billy Corgan has the answer to that shortly.