KISS, Queen, Def Leppard & More Rock Bands on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: Full List

When Def Leppard receives a prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame connected Thursday (Oct. 9), they’ll articulation astir 2 twelve different stone groups successful the world’s astir celebrated sidewalk prima attraction.

Rock groups weren’t successful the premix of honorees for the archetypal 2 decades of the Walk of Fame’s existence. On Aug. 15, 1958, the archetypal 8 stars were unveiled connected Hollywood Blvd. astatine Highland Ave. to show what the Walk would look like. The archetypal honorees included actors Ronald Colman, Burt Lancaster and Joanne Woodward. On Feb. 8, 1960, operation began connected the long-planned Walk. The archetypal prima to beryllium added beyond the archetypal 8 was producer/director Stanley Kramer connected March 28, 1960.

In June 1978, Crosby, Stills & Nash became the archetypal stone radical to person this recognition. The trio were basking successful the occurrence of their 1977 medium CSN, which reached No. 2 connected the Billboard 200 and received a Grammy motion for medium of the twelvemonth astatine the February 1978 ceremony. It mislaid to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. In October 1979, Fleetwood Mac became the 2nd stone radical to get a star.

We’ve rounded up each the stone groups that person received a star. Keep successful caput that our absorption present is connected rock. This database doesn’t see duos and groups that acceptable much comfortably successful different genres, namely:

Vintage Pop: The Mills Brothers, The Andrews Sisters, Les Paul & Mary Ford, The Lennon Sisters, The Lettermen, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme

Pop: America, Backstreet Boys, The Everly Brothers, Bee Gees, Jonas Brothers, New Kids connected the Block, Sonny & Cher, Carpenters, the Fifth Dimension, The Monkees, Daryl Hall & John Oates, The Osmonds, Pentatonix, *NSYNC

R&B: Earth, Wind & Fire, The Jacksons, Destiny’s Child, The Chi-Lites, New Edition, Kool & the Gang, Boyz II Men, The Miracles, The Pointer Sisters, The Spinners, The Supremes, Four Tops, The Temptations, War

Country: Alabama, Brooks & Dunn, Rascal Flatts, Sons of the Pioneers

Latin: Los Bukis, Los Tigres Del Norte, Los Huracanes Del Norte, Los Tigres Del Norte

Hip-hop: Cypress Hill, Salt N Pepa

Disco: KC & the Sunshine Band, Village People

Gospel: Bebe & CeCe Winans

Here’s a database of the stone groups that person stars connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame. They are shown successful bid of the day of their prima ceremonies. We besides amusement the rubric of their medium that climbed the highest connected the Billboard 200 and/or stayed astatine No. 1 the longest. For brevity’s sake, we telephone that their apical Billboard 200 album.

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