{"id":899111,"date":"2026-10-29T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899111\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:04:09","slug":"b-52s-land-on-the-hollywood-walk-of-fame-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899111\/","title":{"rendered":"B-52s land on the Hollywood Walk of Fame \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roam if you want to, but if you’re looking for the B-52s they’ll be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A star for the new wave dance-rock band will be unveiled in a ceremony Thursday featuring members Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Cindy Wilson and Keith Strickland. The events is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Thursday in front of Amoeba Music.<\/p>\n

Members of the Go-Gos and comedian Fred Armisen were expected to speak at the ceremony.<\/p>\n

The star ceremony comes one day before the band performs at the North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista and two days before concluding The Cosmic De-Evolution Tour at the Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert.<\/p>\n

The band was formed on an October night in 1976 following drinks at an Athens, Georgia Chinese restaurant and played their first gig at a friend’s house on Valentine’s Day 1977. Naming themselves after Southern slang for exaggerated bouffant hairdos, the newly-christened B-52’s — Schneider, Pierson, Strickland, Cindy Wilson and her older brother, Ricky Wilson — soon began weekend road trips to New York City for gigs at CBGB and a handful of other venues.<\/p>\n

The band released its first single, “Rock Lobster,” in 1978 and its first album, “The B-52’s,” in July 1979. The album sold more than 1 million copies, earning certification as platinum by the trade organization the Recording Industry Association of America.<\/p>\n

Each of The B-52’s’ next two albums, “Wild Planet,” released in 1980, and “Whammy!” released in 1983, were certified as gold.<\/p>\n

Their fifth album, “Cosmic Thing,” released in 1989, was their top seller, with more than 4 million copies sold, earning quadruple platinum certification. It rose to fourth on the Billboard 200 chart.<\/p>\n

The sixth of their seven studio albums, “Good Stuff,” released in 1992, was certified as gold. Their latest studio album, “Funplex,” was released in 2008.<\/p>\n

The B-52s received their first Grammy nomination in 1990 for best pop performance by a duo or group with vocals for the single “Love Shack.” Their next nomination came the following year in the same category for the single in the “Roam.”<\/p>\n

Their third and most recent nomination came in 1993 for best alternative music album for “Good Stuff.”<\/p>\n

Guitarist Ricky Wilson died of complications from AIDS in 1985 at the age of 32. He was succeeded as the lead guitarist by Strickland, who had been the drummer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roam if you want to, but if you’re looking for the B-52s they’ll be on the Hollywood Walk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,114709,216,43566],"class_list":["post-899111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood-walk-of-fame","tag-music","tag-music-musicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}