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A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will be unveiled Thursday honoring the punk rock trio Green Day for a career that has included induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the sale of more than 75 million records.
Actor Ryan Reynolds and Rob Cavallo, who produced much of Green Day’s recordings, will join band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool in speaking at the 11:30 a.m. ceremony at 6212 Hollywood Blvd., adjacent to Amoeba Music.
The ceremony comes 12 days after the second of Green Day’s two back-to-back Saturday performances at Coachella and 22 days before the release of the deluxe edition of its most recent studio album, “Saviors,” which includes five new songs and acoustic renditions of “Suzie Chapstick” and “Father to a Son.”
Hollywood Boulevard will be closed between Argyle and El Centro avenues beginning at 9:30 a.m. to accommodate the ceremony, Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, told City News Service.
Fans attending the ceremony must line up on the northeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue, next to the Dunkin’ shop. Security will escort fans to the ceremony site when the time is appropriate, Martinez said.
All Walk of Fame ceremonies are streamed on walkoffame.com, and can later be seen on youtube.com/@HwdWalkofFame.
The star is the 2,810th since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the initial 1,558 stars.
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Green Day was formed in 1986 in Berkeley and released its breakout album “Dookie,” in 1994, which sold over 10 million copies, and achieved double diamond status (20 times platinum) by the recording industry trade group the Recording Industry Association of America.
“Dookie” reached second on the Billboard 200 and included three No. 1 singles on Billboard’s alternative songs chart — “Longview,” “Basket Case” and “When I Come Around.”
The album has been included on all four versions of Rolling Stone’s “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time” list and first in the 2017 version on its “The 50 Greatest Pop-Punk Albums” list.
“Dookie” was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2024 as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
“Dookie” is widely credited with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock.
It was named after a child’s slang word for a lump of excrement.
“Dookie” also brought Green Day the first of its four Grammy awards, winning for best alternative music performance.
The trio received three other nominations in 1995 — best new artist, losing to Sheryl Crow, best hard rock performance for “Longview,” and best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal for “Basket Case.”
Green Day won its next Grammy in 2005 for best rock album for “American Idiot.” What band members called a “punk rock opera” also received nominations for album of the year, record of the year, best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal and best short-form music vocal.
“American Idiot” was adapted into a Broadway musical, winning Tony Awards for best scenic design of a musical and best lighting design of a musical in 2010 and receiving a nomination for best musical, losing to “Memphis.”
Green Day won the Grammy for record of the year in 2006 for “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” an emo hard rock power ballad from “American Idiot” that was named after a painting by Gottfried Helnwein that depicts James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley together in a downtown diner, with the title reflecting their deaths.
Green Day’s most recent Grammy came in 2010 for best rock album for “21st Century Breakdown,” a rock opera the band called a rumination of “the era in which we live as we question and try to make sense of the selfish manipulation going on around us.”
Entertainment Weekly has called Green Day, “The most influential band of their generation,” while Rolling Stone declared, “Green Day have inspired more young bands to start than any act this side of KISS.”
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