Watch Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong cover David Bowie with Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson and dedicate Nirvana’s ‘Drain You’ to L7 icon Jennifer Finch with The Coverups

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Billie Joe Armstrong has covered David Bowie with Iron Maiden‘s Bruce Dickinson, and dedicated a version of Nirvana’s ‘Drain You’ to the late L7 icon Jennifer Finch. Watch below. READ MORE: Green Day – ‘Saviors’ review: their best work since ‘American Idiot’ The Green Day frontman performed the tracks at two recent shows with The Coverups. Formed in 2018, the covers band played an intimate show in London early last year. They’d previously been joined on stage in the capital by Courtney Love. Armstrong is joined in the group by Green Day touring member Jason White, their audio engineer Chris Dugan, and tour manager Bill Schneider (also of Pinhead Gunpowder). On Monday (July 20), The Coverups took to the stage at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California, where they treated the crowd to a stacked set of rock ‘n’ roll classics. At one point in the gig, they delivered a rendition of ‘Drain You’ from Nirvana’s seminal 1991 album ‘Nevermind’. “This song goes out to Jennifer Finch from L7,” Armstrong told the crowd to introduce the faithful cover. His tribute followed the death of Finch, aged 59, two days prior on July 18. The bassist and pioneering figure in LA’s punk scene had been diagnos...

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