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Green Day releases John Lennon cover, plans video

Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by aubin on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

Green Day's cover of John Lennon's track "Working Class Hero" is now available for preview or purchase via iTunes. As announced in early March, the song is the second high profile cover from the band, as they previously worked with U2 to record a song to benefit Katrina victims.

The band is also producing a video with director Samuel Bayer, Bayer was also responsible for the band's videos from American Idiot. Shooting is expected to begin this week.

This cover, along with others from Black Eyed Peas, The Cure, Jack Johnson and Willie Nelson will appear on Instant Karma, a new benefit for Amnesty International's campaign to end the Darfur genocide. Though the United Nations has not been willing to describe the Darfur conflict as a genocide, it is well established that at least 400,000 people have been killed, with an addition 2.5 million displaced by the conflict between the Janjaweed and Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit ethnic groups.

You can preview or purchase the song via this link.

Green Day (76 comments)

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Someone (May 1, 2007)

why can't bad artists leave good music alone?

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Someone (May 1, 2007)

I've been a dedicated Green Day fan for over 13 years and everything they do is incredible!

--dj rossstar

Someone (May 1, 2007)

boy, that's a shame.

ZombieCrush (May 1, 2007)

Thats funny.

AndrewG (May 1, 2007)

testify!

YasserBossin (May 1, 2007)

chicks who carried lunchboxes as purses and wore babydoll dresses with doc martens in the early 90s, and who are now mid-30s bored housewives are stoked

Someone (May 2, 2007)

If they were still on lookout, you'd would all be worshipping American Idiot. And you know it.

Someone (May 4, 2007)

i say fuck the beatles and green day rox

Someone (May 6, 2007)

litsen here Green Day ROCKS ok DONT EVA BAD mouth Green Day EVA AGAIN .
ok I think there CD will be AWESOME!!

Someone (May 6, 2007)

green day is by far the best group of guys you can possibly see on stage now-a-days...the problem is seeing them onstage...they dont make any tour dates anymore! you have to find inside information if you want to see them live...the new song is great i downloaded it from limewire. sorry GD! i am a "cheapskate"!!!

SalsaShark (May 1, 2007)

Not crazy about Green Day, but Dookie is the best party music ever.

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mcgregor107 (May 1, 2007)

Dookie?! Come on! That's the equivalent of saying Wolfmother > Led Zeppelin.

tylerdurden8136 (May 1, 2007)

Andrew W.K.

mcgregor107 (May 1, 2007)

Agreed.

Someone (May 1, 2007)

Party Hard!

mCLz (May 1, 2007)

Insomniac is a better i think

the_other_scott (May 1, 2007)

who the fuck is john lennon?

Someone (May 1, 2007)

Green Day is bigger than Jesus of Suburbia

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alpod4 (May 1, 2007)

at first, i thought it was pretty clever...

TheOneTrueBill (May 1, 2007)

Remember when they used to cover the Ramones, Husker Du, and Fang?

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the_other_scott (May 1, 2007)

what husker du song did they cover?

Someone (May 1, 2007)

don't want to know if you're lonely

Someone (May 2, 2007)

terrible cover, embarrassing

Cuffer (May 1, 2007)

And Operation Ivy

Someone (May 1, 2007)

To be fair though, that version of Knowledge is fucking horrible.

Cuffer (May 1, 2007)

agreed

Accidentallyonpurpose (May 1, 2007)

They still cover 'Knowledge.'

branden (May 1, 2007)

and i fought the law?

AAHHHH (May 1, 2007)

by the sound of this, they must really hate darfur

Someone (May 1, 2007)

Who gives a shit? What about all the people dying in Iraq? LET'S GET OUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT, PEOPLE.

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epoch (May 1, 2007)

lol what

the_other_scott (May 1, 2007)

don't get me wrong. i'm not a fan of the war in Iraq, or of the current administration. however, I think the slaughtering of innocent people (whether they're in darfur, iraq, or blacksbug, va) is pretty fucking disgusting and inexusable.

the fact that people are dying in Iraq doesn't negate the genocide in Darfur.

Accidentallyonpurpose (May 1, 2007)

I do believe a genocide of African muslims comes before Iraq.

Someone (May 1, 2007)

these guys havent been "working class heroes" for about 15 years now...

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the_other_scott (May 1, 2007)

neither was john lennon when he wrote this song.

notfeelingcreative (May 1, 2007)

Which is probably why the song isn't written in the first person.

niveK82 (May 1, 2007)

and now he is dead. think about it

the_other_scott (May 1, 2007)

haha

baseball (May 1, 2007)

where can i order the new Fake Problems and The Copyrights (at the same time) that ships quickly? i'm moving at the end of the month and my mail service is bad enough without the hassle of getting it forwarded somewhere new

Fake Problems is back ordered 4-6 business days on Interpunk so i can't do that, any other options?

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notfeelingcreative (May 1, 2007)

NO idea has fakee problems but not the copyrights. There's always Amazon.

Jacobe (May 1, 2007)

Jordan/Sabot ships super quick, so I'd go direct for the FP album.

baseball (May 1, 2007)

cool, thanks

you never know when you order direct

Someone (May 1, 2007)

wow- someone needs to step off their jock a little bit

Someone (May 1, 2007)

anyone know where i can hear this for free?

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the_other_scott (May 1, 2007)

dude its for charity. if you want to hear it shell out the 99 cents. if you don't have 99 cents.get off your ass and get a job.

Wentz_Equals_Death (May 1, 2007)

the guy has a point

Someone (May 1, 2007)

I used to download this kind of music (charity) because I didn't have a credit card to pay with. So, I'm gonna give the poster the benifit of the doubt and assume that's the reason he can't pay 1 fucking buck for it.
I'll pay for it once I get home, and because I'm a lazy dumbass who can't figure out how to convert iTunes-downloaded music into normal MP3 format, I'll probably download the torrent as well.

Wentz_Equals_Death (May 1, 2007)

i love insomniac so so much

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branden (May 1, 2007)

i cant listen to it all the way through, but armatage shanks and stuart and the avenue are excellent songs.

Someone (May 6, 2007)

Me too I like American Idiot and Nimrod and Dookie.

Someone (May 1, 2007)

I thought they would've included "Good Riddance(time of your life)" instead

Someone (May 1, 2007)

Green Gay

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brown (May 1, 2007)

Gay day

Someone (May 1, 2007)

Dude you're ripping off my shit.

Green Day.

Someone (May 1, 2007)

I bet the 'Janjaweed' ethnic group knows how to party.

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Cuffer (May 1, 2007)

ahahahahaha

Someone (May 1, 2007)

green day is teh shitty

Cuffer (May 1, 2007)

So let me get this straight, Green Day is against sending troops to Iraq, but wants the UN to interfere with the Darfur situation. How does that make any Goddamn sense?

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Someone (May 1, 2007)

because the troops in iraq are killing people, if they went to iraq they'd be saving people...

Someone (May 1, 2007)

if they went to AFRICA they'd be saving people

Cuffer (May 2, 2007)

werent they supposed to be saving the iraq people? what makes you think this would be any different?

jacknife737 (May 2, 2007)

What the US military is doing in Iraq is an aggressive occupation, accompanied with the odd strategic offensive against insurgent strongholds and air strikes, etc. The UN forces in Darfur would be "peacekeeping", basically placing themselves between the refugees and the Sudanese militias.

Someone (May 1, 2007)

Bunch of sell out fucks!

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Someone (May 1, 2007)

you're right! they are pretty gay

Someone (May 1, 2007)

My father has been a steelworker and member of the United Steelworkers of America for 25 years. I'll be sure to tell him that during the next contract negotiation when the corporation that he works for tries to fuck the members again to look to Green Day for inspiration. Propaghandi wrote "Rock for Sustainable Capitalism" for chodes like Green Day. Has Billy even ever had a job?

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Someone (May 1, 2007)

rocking is his employment

Jon_the_Skafather (May 1, 2007)

fuck unions

fuck propaghandi

fuck this cover too.

Someone (May 4, 2007)

The guys came from lower middle class families, they've had plenty of low paying jobs (ranging from shelling seafood, to being bus boys). They were very independent teenagers, living on their own in warehouses, vans and cheap apartments. They struggled financially until dookie became a huge hit.

They have every right to cover a song about the underdog.

Someone (May 1, 2007)

what about announcing winners for inquisition tix?

klonny (May 1, 2007)

I actually listen to this band. I liked Favorite Son.

Someone (May 1, 2007)

The Locusts should cover the entire White Album.

Holy_Balls (May 1, 2007)

Gay Day

Jon_the_Skafather (May 1, 2007)

fucking ruined the song.

Someone (May 5, 2007)

i think its good that todays artist are do some covers, not alot but some, of the old songs from the 60's throught the 80's to let todays youth know what it felt like.

Someone (May 14, 2007)

Green Day's cover of 'Working Class Hero' was AMAZING. I love The Beatles and Lennon, and I'd say Green Day did this song great justice -especially adding the last bit of the original song at the end as a homage.

Green Day did this for a good CAUSE, and you people seem to be forgetting that; there's no ploy for attention and they're not being fake about it. Green Day are the ones who teach people NOT to be fake; to be themselves.

I agree with (whoever said this in an earlier post) that all you who hate "new Green Day" or "Reprise Green Day" would LOVE them and American Idiot if they were still on Lookout! Do you know how immature and ridiculous that is? I quote Elvis Costello (from Dookie: Ultimate Albums) "It's like buying a box of cereal and eating the cardboard." A band can't stay the same in the way they sound ("GO BACK TO DOOKIE!" for exam

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Someone (May 14, 2007)

^ Oh, and most of the people that don't like "new Green Day"/"Reprise Green Day" are the ones that weren't even BORN during that time.

I rest my case and all those against... LOSE.

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