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

In line 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 as a result of an unspecified however “completely unacceptable” problem with the schedule he was offered for the occasion.

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

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In line with 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 elucidate that Jones won’t be attending because of his present battle with Parkinson’s illness, a prognosis the band’s founding guitarist revealed earlier this yr.

The band issued their very own assertion, noting that “unique members Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, and Rick Wills shall 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 shall be singing the band’s 1978 hit “Scorching Blooded.” The ceremony takes place at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse Saturday evening and shall be aired reside on Disney Plus.