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Foreigner’s Mick Jones Reacts to Band’s Long-Overdue Rock Hall Nomination
Foreigner's Mick Jones reacts to band's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination
“I deeply appreciate the recognition from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame(nominating) committee,” Mick Jones, who founded Foreigner during 1976 in New York, tells Billboard via email. “Oh, of course it’s been frustrating, and I do know that many of the nominating committee members have put Foreigner on the list, but we just never got in,” Carson says, noting that the late Rock Hall co-founder Seymour Stein was an ardent supporter. Several of the original and principal members have participated in sporadic reunions and guest appearances, while founding bassist Ed Gagliardi passed away in 2014 and multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald died in 2022.
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