Ahead of the release of the Nimrod 25 – 25th Anniversary Edition, a retrospective box set celebrating their 1997 album - Green Day have released on of the demos from the set that didn't make the album - a cover of Elvis Costello’s 1977 ballad “Alison.”

Billie Joe Armstrong - the Green Day frontman - notably performed “Alison” alongside Elvis Costello during a 2006 taping of the VH1 Classic series Decades Rock Live.