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Among his widely published works is a spoof of the famous Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks, entitled Boulevard of Broken Dreams, depicting Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Humphrey Bogart. This painting in turn inspired the song of the same name by Green Day. [46]
Typically, these parodies—like Helnwein's Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which became a popular poster [17] —retain the diner and highly recognizable diagonal composition, but replace the patrons and attendant with other characters: animals, Santa Claus and his reindeer, or the respective casts of The Adventures of Tintin or Peanuts. [52]
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is an emo [10] hard rock [11] power ballad. [10] It is four minutes and twenty-two seconds long. [10] The song begins immediately after the previous song in the album, "Holiday", with the introduction to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" fading in during the song's final note. [12]
A year later, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. [70] In 2009, Kerrang! named American Idiot the best album of the decade, [ 71 ] NME ranked it number 60 in a similar list, [ 72 ] and Rolling Stone ranked it 22nd. [ 73 ]
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" John Gallagher Jr., Rebecca Naomi Jones, Stark Sands & Company: 4:22: 5. "Favorite Son" Joshua Henry, Mary Faber & Company: 2:40: 6.
At the end of the video, the car smokes to a halt in the field that "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" begins in. Like the video for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", this video was directed by Samuel Bayer. The band arrived at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards in the same car, this time "pimped out" by James Washburn, a friend of the band.
Green Day has found success at the MTV Video Music Awards, receiving nine nominations for "Basket Case", the second single from Dookie; and eight awards for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", the second single from American Idiot. The band has also received 4 Grammy Awards out of 17 nominations, or 5 out of 20 including their solo recognitions.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams, a 1989 album by Smokie "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Smokie song), 1989 "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Green Day song), 2004 "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", a 1984 song by Hanoi Rocks, from Two Steps from the Move "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", a 1986 song by Brian Setzer from the album The Knife Feels Like Justice