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 Referred to as Quest, Peter Frampton and Kool & The Gang.
Nevertheless, regardless of ready many years to lastly get their induction, the band’s founding drummer Dennis Elliott is not going to be available to simply accept the prize, writing that the schedule the band had been despatched was “to not our satisfaction”.
Pricey Foreigner Followers & Pals,Do not look too exhausting, we is not going to be there.We had been lastly given the schedule final night time,…
Posted by Dennis Elliott on Thursday, October 17, 2024
In a Fb publish, he defined: “Pricey Foreigner followers & associates. Don’t look too exhausting, we is not going to be there. We had been lastly given the schedule final night time, and it’s not to our satisfaction. So we’re staying dwelling. We’ve got 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 may have a very good time.”
Billboard studies that Elliott, who left the group in 1993, is taking situation 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 will probably be joined by Demi Lovato, Sammy Hagar, and Kelly Clarkson in a set celebrating the induction of the fellows who began all of it nearly fifty years in the past.”
“Unique members Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, and Rick Wills will probably be there to simply 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 12 months, 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 in recent times Mark Ronson, who’s Jones’ stepson, has been main a marketing campaign to get the band recognised, recruiting members of Foo Fighters, Purple Sizzling Chili Peppers, Weapons N’ Roses and Queens of the Stone Age to lend their help.
Paul McCartney is one other that has obtained 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 Dependancy took to social media to complain about them being ignored, regardless of their eligibility.
