Why Foreigner’s Mick Jones, Dennis Elliott Won’t Be at Rock Hall

In response to 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” concern with the schedule he was supplied for the occasion.

“We had been lastly given the schedule final evening, and it isn’t to our satisfaction,” he wrote on Fb. “So we’re staying dwelling. We now have been asking for this for weeks, and so they have waited till the final minute to ship it understanding we had been all packed and going to mattress.”

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In response to Billboard, “one particular bone of rivalry was that solely band members had been to stroll the crimson carpet earlier than the present, with out their spouses.” The story goes on to clarify that Jones is not going to be attending on account of his present battle with Parkinson’s illness, a prognosis the band’s founding guitarist revealed earlier this 12 months.

The band issued their very own assertion, noting that “authentic 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 on the ceremony, with Hagar noting on Instagram that he might be singing the band’s 1978 hit “Scorching Blooded.” The ceremony takes place at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse Saturday evening and might be aired dwell on Disney Plus.