Green Day - Working Class Hero (Live on American Idol)

[whatshouldneverbejcj]

bloody love greenday

[ViCtOriAlEe1000]

OMG! I love Green Day and John Lennon! I love how they did the ending, coolest thing I've ever heard!

[murderscene66]

lol the crowed is just like umm

[KarlHelge1]

Fantastic version of John Lennons classic!! Green Day is one helluve live band! :) Love 'em! :)

[Atlantisart]

Tip Nr. 1

[roqer121]

what happened to his eyebrows?

[manderz242]

@jrodb97 his hair is hot not stupid!!! :)

[minish1]

Even when you cover a song and a person as great as John Lennon, it can be this breath taking.

[makalavena]

Americans believe that they actually have freedom.

[psychono1greendayfan]

thank you green day

[greendaygirl303]

Omg Billies smile at the end was sooooo adorable!!!!

[MrRomanticode]

they are the best!

[jrodb97]

Love green day but his hair in this video is stupid looking.

[gerberlocs]

16 fags hate this

[rawrieatyourbrains]

green day is one of the few bands that sound better live

[GreenDayPunkChick]

Best freaking cover EVER.

[rayban2113]

you are a great bastard!! thumb up!! 100% fucking sweet.... :))

[BlaireKohlberg907]

You can get the audio-mp3 of this tune at grabyouraudio doht cohm.

[august121995]

green day has the better version for this song.

[twilight5171]

incredible song. green day forever!

[joje3456]

i love what the storys behind the song it just is a strong message and ya know what i mean say like umm pop stars or something they always right about themselves and how they think a girl or a guy is hot ...and then Green day and matture and know the truth and there music is emotional and you feel involved ...ahh shit im blabbing on does anybody get me ....please let me know yeh?

[hebbsie]

in 10 years are people going to remember this masterpiece ...... NO auto tuned shit will be remembered about getting wasted every night and sex and whatever.....when really stuff like this should be remembered for its meaning behind it !!!!

[Tiresias42]

It's not because they covered him....it's because they managed to completely ruin it...on american idol of all places...

john lennon is spinning in his grave so much to remove our dependance on oil from generated power

[masterkemp]

what adisgrace censoring this song on national tv

[3ace13]

GREEN DAY w00t!! AMERICAN IDOL ehhhh w00t!!

[theseer27]

um. green day. john lennon. american idol??? something doesnt fit here....

[think3hytsang]

Great performance .... very powerful

[jessluvengaz]

ssoooo f***ing awsome they are amazing love them soo much n billie joe that hottest guy on the plannet

[amk68sco]

tell the bank manager that a working class hero is something to be!,typical of a fucking leech to attempt to be patronizing when his bank account is full,fuck off john lennon and every cunt like him.

[amk68sco]

tell the bank manager that a workin class hero is something to be!

[zonnebril1000]

perfect song



[rhn94]

they lip synched this coz of the curse word which american idol dint want 2 broadcast .. only time they ever lip synched i bet !

[slee0416]

speechless.....

[gumchewingdude]

i remember watching this and when ryan said "green day" i almost jizzed myself. lol green day is awesome. idk why i was watching american idol but thank god i saw this one

[MG21749]

his voice sounds so good

[cortspop]

Green Day is F**king the most awesome band on this planet!

[shohom67]

This version is actually BETTER than the original. And I'm a HUGE John Lennon fan.

[kaylapeterson12345]

i didnt know they were on american idol

[IcyCoolX]

this is so much better than john lennons version

[Brynchka]

they're just perfect!!

[sullendays93]

wow that was good...and billie's smile...adorable.

[oscar98ish]

wow!the Green Days!this is fan

[Nadlia304]

*-* thats sooo beautiful..!love it

[iluvubecause]

God how I love Green Day!

[BBGum14]

i love how they all bow to john lennon at the end

[darksupersilver231]

I love Billie's smile at the end. He always has the cutest smiles..<3

[cynerain]

im a hiphp guy .. but damn have I got a soft spot for green day .. I like this cover!!

[PoetaOdoris]

great great great, just fucking GREAT!!!

love john lennon, love green day <3

[cracytiger]

BLOW ME AGGS XDDD -.- ^.

[trentocontra]

yes. working class hero is something to be!

I'm a working class heroine. every day. thanks john lennon to make us understand what politicians cannot understand. we're the heroes. every day.

[jezz155]

great comment :)

[GREENDAYFAN210001]

I love Green Day......

[182fisher]

what an amazing acoustic pedal sound!!

[gabivika]

HAHAHA

[greenday3847]

at the begining i wanted to say " Seacrest stfu! "

[drbnzbest]

dude... green day is the greatest band alive... even if they make CORRECT political statements, who cares.. enjoy the music for gods sake

[greenday3847]

yea, i dont agree with there political beliefs, but i dont care. theyre music is fucking amazing

[botirg]

Que buen final de ese cover!

[greendaylover4ever98]

i love they!!!

[cjmooney9]

PS.

Singing a song about how awful eliteism, and capitalism is, and how some people have little choice but to just resort to drink and drugs - on American Idol.

Either BJA and Greenday aren't too smart, and have no idea what the song is about, or this is one of the great political statements by a band

[MANGIFHW]

Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day ARE very smart. They know quite well what the song is about. And they aren't making a political statement. They know the song, they know what it is about, they like the song, so they're singing it. Don't complicate things, there doesn't have to be some huge reason. I'm not being rude or anything, I'm just letting you know.

[cjmooney9]

No offence, but if you actually think they chose Working Class Hero basically a son about how stupid and capitalism obsessed the general public are are. And chose to play it on American Idol. Well Id love to be that naïve.

If they chose that song, its quit obviously a political statement. Just like American Idiot was.

[MANGIFHW]

Don't make everything so complicated. I'm not fucking naïve. I know what the song is about, I just know a lot about the band, and that's the kind of thing they'd to. It doesn't have to be a political statement, it can just be something SIMPLE liek it's a song they were recently redoing, jut because this world has complicated things does not mean you need to help it along, dumbshit.

[july0rp]

that's awesome!!° <3

i love billie joe... :D

[oscarius4]

I think that greenday do many different styles nowadays but i think they are still punks at the end of the day.ROCK ON GREEN DAY!

[Poenudgey]

LOVE Green day !!!

[xKelsix13]

Awesome performance!!

They should of got more claps. :(

Green Day rocks!

[Garanzo96]

who was singing at the very end? mike?

[WhiteMenJumping5]

that's the Lennon version, who ever put this video up dubbed that in

[conkerjb09]

Umm.....no.

They put that at the end of their cover. It's on the single version of the song.

[WhiteMenJumping5]

okay, well it's John Lennon singing, I've never heard the studio version from green day, but that doesn't change that it's Lennon singing, I'm sorry for thinking someone added to the video..................

[MANGIFHW]

Lennon. They added in a clip of him singing the very end.

[MikeDirntBass2468]

@Garanzo96 John lennon

[KellyxMabbitt]

my favorite band of all time right here. green day is the shizz

[jjj5541]

i don't remember them clapping a lot on the real thing, i think this is edited. i lot green day the live should have clapped more. but i thought they were gonna play holiday or something . guess not.

[croerdi]

no one didnt write anything about what he sings and thats the only important thing ....who cares is it punk,rock or anything else....the massage is important....

[jjj5541]

really? i kinda only liked the music, but that's cool i guess.

[shaeshae1323]

I <3 BILLIE!!!!!!!!!!! ROCK ON!!!

[jinxfink]

man...that feels like it was so long ago.

i remember that night watching it, and before that watching them play 'Saints'.

i cant believe it's been 4 years since i became a fan. wow

[shyshycutie321]

this song is kinda sad if u think about it BUT I LOVE BILLIE WAY BETTER THAT ALL OF U PPL

[KellyxMabbitt]

what does that mean exactly? that you love Billie way better that all of ppl. what exactly does that mean?

[xKelsix13]

I know...I don't know what it means either.

Btw, Shyshycutite321, you can't even say that.

Millions of people LOVE him.

[azzeps19]

you just think that

you cant like some one

"better"

nimrod

stfu

i love Billie Joe's style of music

your not the authority you dont get to decide you like them more than everyone else

i like him more than you

[andybavz1]

I hate it when people refer to Green Day as emo/punk, no they are not emo, not at any stage do they whinge and sing of cutiing themselves and self mutilation!!!

Green Day are punk, just because they wear black and sing about politics does not make them emo, next your going to say ozzy osbourne is freakin emo!!!

Stupid american music industry labels shit without thinking,

[DerPoltergeist13]

To andybavz1: I have seen people saying Ozzy is emo... Crazy.

Green day are not punk, they are too talented. green day is something in their own right, which is a good thing!

[MANGIFHW]

Actually, they ARE punk. Billie has always said that they are punk, that's what they WANT to be and thats what theyve always been,.

[DerPoltergeist13]

Green day said they will always be in touch with their punk roots but they have moved forward a great deal, beyond their roots. They always will have been punks but they will not always be punks, and that's okay. Punk is far too narrow of an ideal and style in what it actually is.

[cjmooney9]

You have no idea what punk is.

It's a bit more than hair dye and eyeliner

[MANGIFHW]

Yeah, well Green Day is a LOT more than hair dye and eyeliner, douche bag. They are a punk band. You aren't the fucking authority, you don't get to decide that they aren't a punk band, they do. Shut the fuck up.

[himynameischrisAVA]

well done american idol for a piss poor sound job, they only know how to do the levels on vocals, hear how loud that bass was? and how awful the drums sounded? not the musicians fault, the shitty american idol sound guy

[cinderiffic]

i will take johns version since i was born into that era altho this is decent

[XboX360XboX1]

this is a really good cover

[FfuckShitPiss]

this song is amazing...Billie Joe's voice is amazing...

[dasheriff001]

A lot of people would classify green day as emo/punk but it seems they get their inspiration from the likes of queen and the beatles.

[VanGoghsEar1890]

John Lennon would be proud of them.

[Rockyhorrorfan5]

I LOVE BILLIE JOE

[Gr33nDay1000]

Green Day are the best

[FreeRunner1996]

YES

[mrfisch2]

Yeah Deutsch! xD

[TheMarci1]

schreibt mal deutsch

! *YES*

[rissaroxurjox]

They covered this song because a bunch of artists made a cd as a tribute to john lennon, so they eachd pikd one of his songs and interpreted it.

[gr33ndayTL33]

personally, not a good cover song to do. not much energy and thats what greenday always gives

[DaveRTV]

i think that green day did a good job of this. in a way, i kinda like this better than the original.

but thats just me.

[GreenDay4LIFE100]

i love B.J. voice

[tinkaaaxx]

omg lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelo­ve <3

Green Day is the best :D <3

[SrPlayer]

The best Lennon´s song!

[tommelnopp]

i thing he uses lp junior

[DancingMonkey12]

Thats correct

[imarocker24]

I'm willing to bet 75% of the audience didn't know A. that was a John Lennon song, B. That there are problems in Darfur, C. why Green Day wasn't playing one of their songs.

[monkeyx497]

A i knew they were playing a john lennon song B I knew that there was problems in dafur I dont know why green day wasnt playing one of their songs but did u know that it was recorded and do u know y

[IronX22]

I also bet that 75% didn't even know Darfur existed.

[E1visPresley]

I want his jacket, looks pretty damm cool xD love green day :P

[Flippyjl]

HIS HAIR LOOKS LIKE MINE!!!

[drummergirl46]

nice then ur lucky as fuck :D

[sebastian3793]

you have no idea, Green Day is totally different from Oasis, the rhythm is different, his voice sounds different, it´s completely a different style

@ Kimberly: of course they were only performing it at stage, they don´t need to win a casting show anymore :-)

[XxPlainWhiteTsxX]

how did they get on american idol? were they like trying to win or r they just preforming on that stage?

-Kimberly

[Akatsukifreak13]

performing

[AcousticTyGuy]

honestly, what does this song have to do with issues like Darfur?  It's a good song, but it's weird that Green Day turned it into their 'social action' anthem

[Xenophobia080]

The song was part of a compilation of artists covering Lennon's songs with all proceeds going to support Darfur - thats what it has to do with it.

[punkkitty888]

i love this song so much i totally want to go to a concert

[grantgg12]

thats a 4500 dollar guitar billies playin

and thats pretty sad i can tell u that at a first look at it :(......

[BoUnDnBrOkEn627]

haha hey, when your the lead singer of one of the greatest punk rock bands of all time you can afford to splurge on a guitar lol

[alexisrocksoutloud]

u r point

[17erstad]

Yup looks like a Gibson LP custom.

[ohadqumpo]

D: i forgot that they use to get beaten..... {:'[

prty sad..... he said at school or at home i think

[sadexox]

?????

[gigglingproductions]

noooo well idk but john lennon wrote this song

[Haushinka98]

Such a sad song.

[center1616]

the crowd looks like a bunch of zombies

since when is the crowd not moving at a green day concert haha ?

[kerplunk31444]

not a green day concert, its at amercan idol

[hoerter94]

G GR GRE GREE GREEN GREEN D GREEN DA GREEN DAY GREEN DAY R GREEN DAY RO GREEN DAY ROC GREEN DAY ROCK GREEN DAY ROCKS GREEN DAY ROCKS! green day rocks sooooo much and send this to at least all the green day vidios im the next 3 min. and tomorrow will be the best day of your life!!

[GHUJSE]

no tomorrow cant be my best day in my life cuz i will go to GD live @ Sweden October 11 + i have russian language exams tomorroy and that sucks so bad

[GothicNerd007]

how did u do on that test rofl

[GHUJSE]

well i passed it acctualy... i got 3 (C)

[vanja2609]

john lennon is a true legend..he will never die...

every word he wrote in this song is right.

and the pussies didn't say fuckin crazy :)

PEACE

[hippiefreakmaster]

thats because its on fox

kinda hard to get away with that

[Gobob789]

This is by John Lennon, right?

[benjistoll]

yes

[cjguth3]

I never new they played tis live on American Idol. Thanks for posting

[Jon4Mel]

that's the borest song i have never listen

[erkiklop]

is that supposed to mean something?

[LiKeWHoA91]

the crowd is sooo dead...

[Musicgamer92]

Are you serious? Should they rape every song with jumping like an idiot and 'throwing rock hands'? Totally doesn't suit the song at all.

[ILuvSterling]

someone stupidly told me it was not taped in front of a live audience cuz they thought they were gonna cus...but u can c the audience

[justlikejames64]

It's actually true, the band said it during an interview. The Audience is edited in. What do you expect? It's Fox. They can't even keep the News straight. :-p

[ILuvSterling]

yea...but i luv green day and they should have let them played live

[justlikejames64]

I couldn't agree more.

[ILuvSterling]

what if green day fans went to idol just to c them

they got SCREWED........

[justlikejames64]

I can't really think of any other reason to watch American Idol. I'd feel pretty screwed if I paid to get in anyway. haha

[Gobob789]

yeah, the audience is fake. The song has the F word twice.

[oliorly]

wtf u guys ....sellout?seriously?! they sing wherever they want to bc the r great band, nd got hit songs! i love em!

[bpg420]

Totally agree! Greenday are such a talented band, they take songs and make them there own. I dont even know what to say about green day such a good band, great cover too!

[missmurder2780]

i agree. i still love them though i just wish they weren't goddamn sellouts

:)

[1994Andy2007]

hes not actually singing that xD they had to record it first because american idol didn't trust them enough not to say the word "fuck" on live television :p. True fact :)

[McrDudefaces]

lol. Naww ;p

I find that funny.

[macronigal]

kind of mean but still green day is a great band

[killboy650]

G GR GRE GREE GREEN GREEN D GREEN DA GREEN DAY GREEN DAY R GREEN DAY RO GREEN DAY ROC GREEN DAY ROCK GREEN DAY ROCKS! copy and paste if you LOVE green day!!! <3 OMG this is awesome!!!!!!

[shobaq]

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