~*GC Facts*~





The guys producer is Don Gilmore who also produces Eve 6 and Lit

The video for "Little Things" was directed by Nigel Dick and features Mandy Moore playing the role of Joel's ex-girlfriend

GC's demo "Little Things" was on Y-100 Cage Match for 15 nights in a row, something that only happens 3 or 4 times a year

Benji, Joel, Billy and Paul went to La Plata High School

The bands first photo shoot was shot by Benji and Joel's little sister

The photos were sent as a promotion package with a demo and a note saying "You can sign us now for cheaper or you can sign us later."

After the twins got kicked out of their apartment, they moved into Billy's house. One day, Good Charlotte coazed him into joining in an im-promptu practice. A week later, Billy played his first show with the band. Things moved fast for the young group. Unsigned Good charlotte played with Blink 182 and Bad Religion, and opened for Lit on a sold-out East Coast tour. They found local champions in the dee-jays at their beloved radio station WHFS, who began hiring Good Charlotte to play station gigs and finally asked them to play the local stage at the HFStival. In the spring of 2000, Good Charlotte made a bold career leap to HFStival's second stage, sharing the bill with Eve 6 and Nine Days. Good Charlotte played charity gigs with equal fervor, ranging from benefits for the Annapolis Rape Center to the Leukemis Foundation

A demo of "The Little Things" made its way to Philadelphia modern rock station WPLY (Y-100) and broke a record on the station's show of dueling songs. "For fifteen nights we won til they had to retire us," says Joel. The buzz around Good Charlotte was deafening. After being courted by a variety of labels, they finally signed with Epic Records.

A GC article was in the Australian (Sydney) magazine, Drum Media October Issue 2001 titled "The Little Things that Matter."

GC write their songs on acoustic guitar. Usually just jamming

Benji did not take any guitar lessons, Paul and Billy taught him some stuff. Joel did not take any singing lessons at all and as he said..."I slept through school"..(Channel[V] interview)

In the video for Festival Song, Chester Bennington and Brad Delson from Linkin Park, and Ian from New Found Glory and other bands appear

Their tour bus has a little suction cup sign in the from window that says "A woman with pms and esp is a bitch who knows everything."

Their tour bus has Florida license plates

One of their first gigs was at a comic book store

"My Brother's Place" would often be packed with GC fans who would clear out before the headlining band played, leaving 12 or so left when the main act hit the stage

Good Charlotte was on "Fowl Records" when they first started out

All the band members love Star Wars

GC's first show was in their neighbor's basement. About 20 kids showed up

The group all got "GC" tattooed on the back of their left arm the day that they found out they got a record deal with Epic

Before the band was Good Charlotte, it was the "Joel, Benji, and Brian Band." Brian had to drop out due to conflicting schedules, so in come Aaron and Paul, and then later, Billy

Good Charlotte was banned from the Waldorf coffeehouse, "My Brother's Place" for awhile

They really hate it when people title articles with some reference to Good Charlotte being Great Charlotte or Good Charlotte Really is Good. Stuff like that

Benji and Joel often joke about moving to Bannister apparently Paul lives there now though

Billy converted Benji a vegetarian, and Joel's a vegetarian

Paul and Billy took music lessons for their chosen instruments

Their producer for The Young and the Hopeless was Eric Valentine

The name Good Charlotte came from a childrens book. They never really read the book, but they thought it sounded like a cool name (keep in mine that they were only 15 when they chose it) so they named the band Good Charlotte. The book is about a little girl named Charlotte who was bullied all the time, but her nanny loved her a lot and called her 'good charlotte'. but they thought the book sucked. Now they don't really like the name as much because people keep asking the significance of the name is and they dont like people asking that

The Lifestyles video was shot in a secret location

Good Charlotte is featured in the movie "Not Another Teen Movie"


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