In June 2005, American punk-rock band Green Day—at the peak of the American Idiot tour supporting the album (2004), which sold over 16 million copies and became a rock opera on politics and alienation—performed on Top of the Pops, the legendary BBC One chart show launched in 1964 as a platform for live hit renditions, where their 9-minute version of "Jesus of Suburbia" set the record for the show's longest song. The set, recorded at BBC Television Centre in London, embodied tour climax, with Billie Joe Armstrong's energetic riffs and Tré Cool's drum power forging festival euphoria before a small audience. As a rare artifact of their breakthrough, this performance highlighted Green Day's punk-pioneer role, turning the TV studio into a realm of collective rebellion.