Why Foreigner’s Mick Jones, Dennis Elliott Won’t Be at Rock Hall
According to a brand new report, Foreigner stars Mick Jones and Dennis Elliott are skipping the band’s Rock & Roll Hall 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 as a result of an unspecified however “totally unacceptable” situation with the schedule he was offered for the occasion.
“We were finally given the schedule last night, and it is not to our satisfaction,” he wrote on Facebook. “So we are staying home. We have been asking for this for weeks, and they have waited until the very last minute to send it knowing we were all packed and going to bed.”
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According to Billboard, “one particular bone of competition was that solely band members had been to stroll the purple carpet earlier than the present, with out their spouses.” The story goes on to explain that Jones will not be attending as a result of his current battle with Parkinson’s disease, a diagnosis the band’s founding guitarist revealed earlier this year.
The band issued their own statement, noting that “unique members Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, and Rick Wills might be there to simply 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 at the ceremony, with Hagar noting on Instagram that he might be singing the band’s 1978 hit “Hot Blooded.” The ceremony takes place at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse Saturday night time and might be aired dwell on Disney Plus.
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