After nearly four decades of pop-punk world domination, Green Day are finally getting their flowers. And it will be arriving in the form of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool will be officially inducted on Thursday, May 1 at 11:30am PT. The ceremony will feature speeches from Serena Williams and Ryan Reynolds because… well, I’m not quite sure why but there you go.
The event will be livestreamed via the Walk of Fame’s website, with radio legend Matt Pinfield emceeing the event.
Ana Martinez, Walk of Fame producer, called the band’s music “the soundtrack to our lives.” Which, for a lot of people, isn’t an exaggeration. From Dookie to American Idiot to Father of All…, Green Day have built one of the most consistent careers in modern rock without ever fully taking themselves too seriously.
Formed in Berkeley in 1986, the band went from Gilman Street to global stages with 75 million albums sold, five Grammys, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, and a Broadway musical based on an album that originally dropped in the Bush years. It’s really not too bad for a band once slammed for selling out because they signed to a major label.
The Dookie years made them household names. American Idiot proved they could still hit hard with something to say. And 2020’s Father of All… reminded everyone they’re still capable of surprise even if that surprise comes with a falsetto and a unicorn vomiting a rainbow.
Green Day’s last major run, the Hella Mega Tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer, sold out stadiums around the world. And yet, despite all that, this will be their first time immortalised on the literal pavement of Hollywood.
It’s hard to think of a band more overdue for a star. Green Day walked so a thousand eyeliner-stained high school bands could run. Now they get a piece of concrete to prove it. It’s about time me thinks.
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