Emotional reason Ross Kemp can't list to one of Green Day's most popular hits Ross Kemp has shared the emotional reason he can't listen to one of Green Day's most popular songs.
'Wake Me Up When September Ends' is one of Green Day's more introspective, emotional songs, and in a recent interview, Ross Kemp said he thought it was about "puberty and losing your virginity" - but they're actually not.
Billie Joe Armstrong actually wrote the song about the passing of his father on September 10, 1982, and it's for a similar poignant reason that Ross struggles to listen to it.
In the interview, Ross joked that he wasn't bothered which songs would be played at his funeral because he'd be dead - however, 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' is a song that he cannot listen to now.
Despite what Ross Kemp thought about it being about losing your virginity, however, it's actually about the grief and longing that follows death, and the need to be anywhere else but in your body when a loved one is taken from you.
