Awards and Honors
- Voted "Best New Talent" by the readers of Guitar Player magazine in December 1981
- Voted "Best Heavy Metal Guitarist" by the readers of UK-based Sounds magazine in December 1981
- Placed 85th on Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists.
- Placed 4th on Guitar World Magazine's 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists.
- "Crazy Train" and "Mr. Crowley" placed 9th and 28th respectively on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos readers poll.
- Named one of the fastest guitar players in Guitar World's 50 Fastest Guitarists list.
- "Crazy Train" placed 51 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" list.
- In 2008 – 2010 applications for a Posthumous Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame were submitted in the name of Randy Rhoads. Randy Rhoads' Posthumous Star has not yet been approved and the HWOF Star application will be resubmitted in 2011. If approved by the Hollywood Walk Of Fame Committee in June 2011, Randy Rhoads' Posthumous Star would be placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012.
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