In a brand new interview with The Rock Store With Ralph, unique FOREIGNER singer Lou Gramm addressed the truth that the band is just not 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): “It isn’t something to do with our music or the quantity of hits or notoriety or something like that. It is a private factor that we’re not in there. It is a private vendetta between the gentleman who owns Rolling Stone [magazine] and Mick [Jones, FOREIGNER guitarist].”

He continued: “It is very juvenile, the entire thing, and I do not assume it is gonna get any higher. I believe it is gonna keep that means. I believe we’re being made an instance of.”

Requested if he feels FOREIGNER must be within the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame, Gramm mentioned: “In fact I do. The unique FOREIGNER [lineup]. I put an exclamation level on the finish of that [and it’s not something] we have to speak about.”

Earlier this month, 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 normal from which they resolve who’s on this substantial sounding-titled Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame. They cite as one among their standards as ‘affect.’ Effectively, how many individuals have picked up a guitar and tried to study ‘Chilly As Ice’ or ‘Scorching Blooded’? Or sing ‘I Need To Know What Love Is’ in a karaoke bar? This band has offered 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”, “Scorching 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 someday after sharing an April Fools’ Day publish during which he claimed “all the board of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame met particularly to appoint FOREIGNER.” In a follow-up social media publish, Phil wrote: “Thanks all to 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 tune writing and manufacturing abilities 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 exhibits everywhere in the world annually since then and continues to play to promote out enterprise as they proceed the journey on their two yr farewell tour.

“Please attempt to see them earlier than they’re performed, however most of all, assist us put some strain on the Rock ‘n’ Roll Corridor of Fame board to do the proper factor whereas their remains to be time for them to ship a stellar efficiency at their nicely 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 believe it is much less about whether or not we’re certified and I believe it could be extra private now. I do know that in some unspecified time in the future when numerous 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 neglected, I consider that our supervisor at the moment and Mick went to see the top 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 might need been Jann Wenner from Rolling Stone journal, who really was an excellent pal of Mick‘s, I believe 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 way in which it ended up. And positive sufficient, I wager 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: “Effectively, for instance it isn’t one thing I wrestle with or one thing that impacts my life. In fact, it will be good, however generally you surprise 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 actually 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 greatest hits, together with “Feels Like The First Time” and “Chilly As Ice” from the band’s eponymous debut in 1977, and later songs like “Scorching Blooded” and “I Need 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 exhibits that yr 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, ultimately 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 17 years.

FOREIGNER‘s final album, “Cannot Sluggish 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”.