Sweet Children

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Sweet Children was the original name of the American punk rock band Green Day during their early years in the late 1980s.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sweet Children canonical 3
Sweet Children (EP) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American punk rock band
musical group
activeYearsEndYear 1989
activeYearsStartYear 1987
basedIn East Bay
surface form: East Bay, California
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
followedBy Green Day
genre punk
punk rock
hasFormerMember John Kiffmeyer
hasGenreCharacteristic East Bay punk scene
hasHistoryNote Green Day
surface form: Sweet Children was the original name of Green Day in the late 1980s
hasInfluenceOn Green Day
hasOriginalBandNameOf Green Day
hasPart Billie Joe Armstrong
John Kiffmeyer
Mike Dirnt
hasSuccessor Green Day
inception 1987
languageOfWorkOrName English
locationOfFormation Berkeley
surface form: Berkeley, California

East Bay
surface form: East Bay, California
member Billie Joe Armstrong
John Kiffmeyer
Mike Dirnt
notableWork Sweet Children self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sweet Children (EP)
originallyNamed Green Day
partOf East Bay punk scene
performerOf early Green Day songs
recordLabel Lookout! Records
Skene! Records
shortName Sweet Children self-link

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Green Day alsoKnownAs Sweet Children
Kerplunk hasPart Sweet Children
Sweet Children notableWork Sweet Children self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sweet Children (EP)
Sweet Children shortName Sweet Children self-link