In accordance with a brand new report, Foreigner stars Mick Jones and Dennis Elliott are skipping the band’s Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony for various causes.
Elliott, who served because the group’s drummer from 1976 to 1993, introduced on Thursday that he wouldn’t be attending resulting from an unspecified however “completely unacceptable” situation with the schedule he was offered for the occasion.
“We have been lastly given the schedule final evening, and it isn’t to our satisfaction,” he wrote on Fb. “So we’re staying dwelling. Now we have been asking for this for weeks, and so they have waited till the final minute to ship it figuring out we have been all packed and going to mattress.”
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In accordance with Billboard, “one particular bone of competition was that solely band members have been to stroll the pink carpet earlier than the present, with out their spouses.” The story goes on to elucidate that Jones won’t be attending on account of his present battle with Parkinson’s illness, a analysis the band’s founding guitarist revealed earlier this 12 months.
The band issued their very own assertion, noting that “unique members Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, and Rick Wills might be there to just accept the awards on behalf of the band’s chief and founder Mick Jones and Dennis Elliott, alongside [with] these of Ian McDonald and Ed Gagliardi who handed away some years in the past.”
Slash, Sammy Hagar, Chad Smith, Demi Lovato and Kelly Clarkson will carry out in Foreigner’s honor on the ceremony, with Hagar noting on Instagram that he might be singing the band’s 1978 hit “Sizzling Blooded.” The ceremony takes place at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse Saturday evening and might be aired reside on Disney Plus.
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