A fan at a Inexperienced Day live performance was invited onstage to play together with the band — solely to start out taking part in another person’s music.
AILSA CHANG, HOST:
All proper, we’re properly into the summer time and the entire season’s beloved traditions like barbecues, pool days…
JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
…Or being trapped at a celebration by somebody pulling out their guitar and taking part in “Wonderwall.”
CHANG: The music that won’t die. Effectively, the rock band Inexperienced Day and tens of hundreds of their followers additionally obtained to expertise that on Monday. At a sold-out present in Luxembourg, entrance man Billie Joe Armstrong invited an viewers member on stage to play guitar throughout one of many band’s greatest hits, “Good Riddance.”
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
GREEN DAY: (Singing) One other turning level, a fork caught within the street.
SUMMERS: However the fan gave the impression to be taking part in one thing else.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG: You do not know it anymore (ph)?
(CHEERING)
SUMMERS: And as soon as Armstrong realized what was occurring…
(SOUNDBITE OF OASIS SONG, “WONDERWALL”)
ARMSTRONG: Oh, [expletive].
SUMMERS: …He intervened.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
ARMSTRONG: Good attempt. Good attempt.
CHANG: However the unique singer of “Wonderwall,” Liam Gallagher of Oasis, he appreciated the tribute, later tweeting, greatest music of the night time.
SUMMERS: And that is the half the place you sing alongside if you already know it.
CHANG: I do not wish to (laughter).
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “WONDERWALL”)
OASIS: (Singing) As a result of possibly you are going to be the one which saves me. And in any case…
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