In a brand new interview with “Good Day Rochester”, the morning information present which airs on the Rochester, New York tv station 13 WHAM, unique FOREIGNER singer Lou Gramm as soon as once more addressed the truth that the band will not be within the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame, and has not even been on the poll for consideration but. He mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Boy, I inform this story lots… [FOREIGNER guitarist and founder] Mick Jones and the director of the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame had been very shut mates. Their households had been shut, they used to run collectively and have dinner with the households and see one another socially lots. They had been good mates. Once we did not get inducted with our friends, and many of the bands within the space that we had been profitable in had all gotten into the Corridor Of Fame, Mick and our supervisor went to see… The man who’s the pinnacle of the Corridor Of Fame can also be the proprietor of Rolling Stone journal; I am unable to bear in mind his identify offhand. So that they went to see — they’d an appointment, and so they went to see him and requested him if there was one thing we had executed or mentioned or one thing that insulted him. They could not perceive why we weren’t introduced up for induction. And it began to get heated, apparently. I used to be not there, however that is what I heard. And it bought actual heated. And when our supervisor and Mick bought as much as depart, [the head of the Rock Hall] mentioned, ‘It’s going to be a chilly day in hell earlier than FOREIGNER will get into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame.’ And that was about 25, 30 years in the past now.”

Two months in the past, present FOREIGNER singer Kelly Hansen informed Houston Press concerning the band’s exclusion from the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame: “As an entity, I discover it uncommon {that a} group of individuals can have an arbitrary commonplace from which they determine who’s on this substantial sounding-titled Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame. They cite as certainly one of their standards as ‘affect.’ Nicely, how many individuals have picked up a guitar and tried to be taught ‘Chilly As Ice’ or ‘Sizzling Blooded’? Or sing ‘I Need To Know What Love Is’ in a karaoke bar? This band has bought 80 million-plus information. And that is actual information, not streams or downloads. That’s the definition of affect.”

Artists are eligible for the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame 25 years after the discharge of their first album or single. Standards for inclusion contains “the affect and significance of the artist’s contributions to the event and perpetuation of rock and roll.”

Eligible since 2002, FOREIGNER has had an enormous variety of rock hits, together with “Chilly As Ice”, “Double Imaginative and prescient”, “Sizzling Blooded”, “I Need To Know What Love Is”, “Juke Field Hero” and “Pressing”, and has been nominated for 3 Grammy Awards, with no wins.

This previous April, FOREIGNER‘s supervisor Phil Carson addressed the group’s absence from the Rock Corridor in the future after sharing an April Fools’ Day put up during which he claimed “the whole board of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame met particularly to appoint FOREIGNER.” In a follow-up social media put up, Phil wrote: “Thanks all in your reactions to yesterday’s spoof. Whereas it was posted with a way of humour, it was not with no contact of irony.

“FOREIGNER must be within the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame. Mick Jones groundbreaking track writing and manufacturing expertise coupled with music gross sales and performances that eclipse most of their contemporaries must be sufficient to warrant FOREIGNER‘s nomination and induction. Mick based FOREIGNER in 1977 and went on to beat the world with as many Billboard prime ten hits as FLEETWOOD MAC, only one lower than THE EAGLES, and greater than JOURNEY and many of the heritage band Rock ‘n’ Roll Corridor of Fame alumni. He created the present model of FOREIGNER in 2005 and selected the superb Kelly Hansen because the lead singer to breath new life into the songs he wrote and co-wrote. That band has carried out round 100 reveals all around the world every year since then and continues to play to promote out enterprise as they proceed the journey on their two 12 months farewell tour.

“Please attempt to see them earlier than they’re executed, however most of all, assist us put some strain on the Rock ‘n’ Roll Corridor of Fame board to do the best factor whereas their remains to be time for them to ship a stellar efficiency at their properly deserved induction.

“Thanks for listening.”

In August 2022, Gramm was requested in an interview with Sleeve Saturday why he thinks the band has but to get the Rock Corridor nod. Gramm mentioned: “I feel it is much less about whether or not we’re certified and I feel it may be extra private now. I do know that in some unspecified time in the future when a whole lot of our compatriots had been being nominated and accepted into it, the bands and the artists that got here up after we got here up that had been inducted into the Rock Corridor Of Fame and we had been not noted, I consider that our supervisor at the moment and Mick went to see the pinnacle of the Rock Corridor Of Fame and had a dialogue with him which led to some heated phrases. And as that dialogue ended — I do not know who; it may need been Jann Wenner from Rolling Stone journal, who really was an excellent buddy of Mick‘s, I feel he informed Mick and our supervisor that it will be a chilly day in hell earlier than FOREIGNER will get within the Rock Corridor Of Fame. That is the best way it ended up. And positive sufficient, I guess you 20 years has passed by since that.”

5 years in the past, Jones was requested by Tigman of the Q103 radio station in Albany if it means something to him to get inducted into the Rock Corridor. Jones responded: “Nicely, as an example it isn’t one thing I wrestle with or one thing that impacts my life. After all, it will be good, however generally you marvel if it is a political factor greater than a musical [thing] or [anything to do with] achievement. As a result of so far as achievements, we have definitely achieved an incredible quantity with the band. And we’ll see. I assume sometime. Who is aware of?”

Gramm was the voice on FOREIGNER‘s largest hits, together with “Feels Like The First Time” and “Chilly As Ice” from the band’s eponymous debut in 1977, and later songs like “Sizzling Blooded” and “I Wish to Know What Love Is”.

The 73-year-old Gramm left FOREIGNER for good in 2002 and has battled well being points lately, together with the removing of a non-cancerous tumor. He informed the Democrat & Chronicle in 2018 that he was planning to retire, however nonetheless reunited with FOREIGNER for a number of reveals that 12 months to rejoice the band’s fortieth anniversary.

FOREIGNER changed Gramm with Hansen in 2005. Jones, the one remaining unique member of FOREIGNER, suffered from some well being points starting in 2011, finally leading to coronary heart surgical procedure in 2012.

Gramm and Jones‘s June 2013 efficiency of “I Need To Know What Love Is” and “Juke Field Hero” on the Songwriters Corridor Of Fame in New York Metropolis marked the primary time the pair carried out collectively in a decade after Gramm left FOREIGNER for a second time. Hansen has fronted the group for the previous 18 years.

FOREIGNER‘s final album, “Cannot Gradual Down”, was the one full-length assortment of latest songs to have been launched by the band since Hansen took over vocals. The album entered the Billboard Prime 30, pushed by the radio singles “In Items” and “When It Comes To Love”. The band additionally has launched a collection of reside albums and compilations, together with 2016’s “In Live performance: Unplugged” and 2017’s “40”.