Green Day: “We are not heartless people”
Billie Joe Armstrong has responded to criticism of Green Day going ahead with their Mad Cool set after Pedro Aunión Monroy's death, saying the band were kept in the dark
News By IQ | 10 July 2017
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has said again he was unaware of the death of acrobat Pedro Aunión Monroy before their set at Mad Cool Festival last weekend, adding that the band would have likely scrapped their performance had they known about the accident.
Forty-two-year-old Monroy had reportedly been performing a routine in a transparent box suspended from a crane when he fell and his harness snapped. He plunged some 100ft and passed away in hospital later that…
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