21st Century Breakdown is a Seventies-style epic, telling the story of two young punk lovers on the run in the wreckage of post-Bush America. The heroes are Christian and Gloria, two kids sold out ...

So, here we go: a rock opera centred around a young couple — Christian and Gloria — as they ... This takes you out of ‘Song Of The Century’ and into ‘21st Century Breakdown’. Barring the introduction, ...

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Bruce Springsteen's tales of middle America, The Who's concept albums and Queen's '80s bombast are the three most obvious reference points here. The band's cartoon-punk spirit and "a-woah, a-woah ...

With 2004’s resounding, career-reviving smash American Idiot—and now, the superior 21st Century Breakdown—Green ... Most notably, “¡Viva la Gloria!,” with its Brechtian cadences ...