Red Hot Chili Peppers receive a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame

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1 Apr 2022, 12:37

What an honour for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who formed in 1983.

The band now have a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

It's to celebrate their incredible career to date, with four decades of making music.

Their star is the 2,717th on the iconic Walk Of Fame.

The band's guitarist, John Frusciante thanked "everybody in the world who our music means something to”.

Bassist Flea added: “I know this street inside out, and this street knows me,” he said. “And whenever we’ve travelled around the world, this street has always been a part of me. I’m really grateful that now we can be a part of it.”

Chad Smith paid tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer, Taylor Hawkins: “I have to give a shout out to my brother Taylor Hawkins who I love and we’ll all miss so much.”

Smith added: “He’s flying around […] He would laugh and make a nice smart-ass comment about this whole thing, and I love him.”

Frontman Anthony Kiedis said: “To me, this is not a story of individuals. I love Chad, I love Flea, I love John, greatly. They are amazingly talented […] Something happens when we come together which is much greater than the individual parts.

“The sum total of our parts is that we were able to find something that we love doing and communicate with the entire world. We started off playing dive bars up and down this street and making a handful of people dance.”

He continued: “We stuck together as a team and as a band, and now we can make everybody dance and feel joy.”

Talking about their new album, Kiedis told NME: “I liked reaching out in 10,000 directions and seeing what was out there. We weren’t limiting ourselves but trying to tap into something that is honest and emotional. Hopefully, we’ve said something that hasn’t been said before, or at least said it in a way that hasn’t.”

Congrats to the band!