Foreigner drummer Dennis Elliott is not going to be attending their Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction, as his spouse was not invited to stroll the pink carpet with him.
The induction ceremony takes place in Cleveland on Saturday (October 19), and can see the veteran rock band joined by the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Cher and Mary J. Blige in being welcomed into the corridor.
Others receiving the honour within the class of 2024 are Dave Matthews Band, A Tribe Known as Quest, Peter Frampton and Kool & The Gang.
Nevertheless, regardless of ready a long time to lastly get their induction, the band’s founding drummer Dennis Elliott is not going to be readily available to just accept the prize, writing that the schedule the band had been despatched was “to not our satisfaction”.
Expensive Foreigner Followers & Pals,Do not look too exhausting, we is not going to be there.We had been lastly given the schedule final evening,…
Posted by Dennis Elliott on Thursday, October 17, 2024
In a Fb put up, he defined: “Expensive Foreigner followers & mates. Don’t look too exhausting, we is not going to be there. We had been lastly given the schedule final evening, and it’s not to our satisfaction. So we’re staying residence. We’ve been asking for weeks, and so they have waited till the final minute to ship it realizing we had been all packed and going to mattress. Completely unacceptable to us. Hope you will have time.”
Billboard studies that Elliott, who left the group in 1993, is taking difficulty with the truth that the group members had been knowledgeable that they’d be strolling down the pink carpet alone, with out their spouses.
Since then, the band have shared an replace on their Instagram, writing: “FOREIGNER is enormously wanting ahead to Saturday’s Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony. The band can be joined by Demi Lovato, Sammy Hagar, and Kelly Clarkson in a set celebrating the induction of the blokes who began all of it nearly fifty years in the past.”
“Unique members Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, and Rick Wills can be there to just accept the awards on behalf of the band’s chief and founder Mick Jones, drummer Dennis Elliot [sic], and Ian McDonald and Ed Gagliardi who’re now not with us.”
Earlier this yr, it was confirmed that Jones has been dwelling with Parkinson’s illness for “a number of years”.
The band had been first eligible for Rock Corridor induction in 2002, and lately Mark Ronson, who’s Jones’ stepson, has been main a marketing campaign to get the band recognised, recruiting members of Foo Fighters, Pink Scorching Chili Peppers, Weapons N’ Roses and Queens of the Stone Age to lend their help.
Paul McCartney is one other that has acquired concerned within the marketing campaign, sending a video during which he says: “Foreigner not within the Corridor of Fame? What the fuck!”
After the 2024 inductees had been introduced, followers of artists together with Mariah Carey, Oasis, Lenny Kravitz and Jane’s Habit took to social media to complain about them being neglected, regardless of their eligibility.
