Full name: Joel Rueben Madden Born: March 11 1979 height: 5'9 eye color: brown pets: Cash color: baby blue fav movie: starwars and trainspotting cereal: cinnamon life starwars: episode 1 holiday: christmas rapper: tupac person in history: elvis or james dean Joel Madden went to his first concert in 1995. Joel and his brother Benji were so inspired from watching the Beastie Boys rock, they decided to form their own band with their friend Paul Thomas from Highschool. Two years later Good Charlotte went to Maryland to begin the whole music scene they had dreamed of. To have money to pay rent they worked at low paying jobs. Once Billy Martin joined the band record labels started to take notce. They signed with Epic records.