Foreigner lately obtained their first nomination for the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame, and so they’ve been working extra time to show they’re worthy of induction. The rockers lately obtained a marketing campaign endorsement from a pal in a excessive place: Paul McCartney.
The previous Beatle made a brief, NSFW video through which he expressed his incredulity over Foreigner’s Corridor of Fame exclusion. “Foreigner not within the Corridor of Fame? What the fuck?” McCartney asks earlier than chirping on the digital camera.
Foreigner shared the video on X (previously Twitter) on Tuesday. You possibly can watch it beneath.
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What’s Foreigner’s Connection to Paul McCartney?
There is a key household connection linking Foreigner to McCartney. Foreigner guitarist and chief songwriter Mick Jones is the stepfather of super-producer Mark Ronson, who’s labored with the likes of Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars and, lately, on the Barbie soundtrack. Ronson was additionally certainly one of 4 producers who labored on McCartney’s 2013 album New.
Ronson has enlisted a number of of his well-known pals to marketing campaign for Foreigner’s Rock Corridor induction, together with Dave Grohl, Slash and Jack Black. The producer defined the ongoing effort on a current episode of The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon, the place he additionally aired the McCartney clip.
“He [McCartney] despatched me this video again that’s his endorsement of Foreigner, however … there’s some stuff that you’ve got by no means seen Paul McCartney do earlier than,” Ronson advised Fallon. “I’ve by no means seen Paul McCartney curse. He is a knight! … I do not wish to be the primary individual to ever publish a video of Paul McCartney dropping an f-bomb.”
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Foreigner’s Rock Corridor Odds
Whereas there is no approach of predicting Foreigner’s possibilities of entering into the Rock Corridor, it is clear that followers wish to see them inducted. The rockers are presently sitting at No. 2 on the continued fan vote, beneath Ozzy Osbourne and above Peter Frampton. Followers can vote day by day via April 26 for his or her prime seven artists, and the highest 5 artists will probably be added to a “followers’ poll” that will probably be tallied amongst all different ballots to find out the Rock Corridor class of 2024.
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Many have shared their ideas on potential induction.
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