Bad Company Singer Paul Rodgers Forced to Sit Out Band’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction: ‘I Have to Prioritize My Health’

With conscionable days to spell earlier this year’s induction ceremony, 1 of the 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees has sent his regrets. Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers posted a enactment connected the band’s socials connected Monday (Nov. 3) revealing that his sick wellness volition forestall him from participating.

Bad Company are slated to beryllium inducted into the Rock Hall this play astatine the Peacock Theater successful Los Angeles alongside Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, OutKast, Soundgarden and The White Stripes successful the Performer class and Salt-N-Pepa and Warren Zevon for Musical Influence.

But, conscionable days aft the different surviving archetypal subordinate of the English stone supergroup – chap erstwhile Free subordinate drummer Simon Kirke — revealed that the 2 planned to reunite to play 2 songs connected Saturday, Rodgers said helium cannot participate.

“My anticipation was to beryllium astatine the Rock & Rock Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and to execute for the fans, but astatine this clip I person to prioritize my health,” Rodgers, 75, said successful a statement without providing immoderate further accusation connected his condition. “I person nary occupation singing, it’s the accent of everything else. Thanks for understanding. Simon on with immoderate outstanding musicians volition beryllium stepping successful for maine – guaranteed to rock.”

Rodgers, Kirke, precocious guitarist Mick Ralphs and precocious bassist Boz Burrell will beryllium inducted this play for their roles successful the 1970s stone juggernaut whose biggest hits see “Bad Company” and “Can’t Get Enough” (1974), “Feel Like Makin’ Love” and “Shooting Star” (1975) and “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy” (1979) among others.

The radical primitively divided successful 1982 and person reunited respective times implicit the years successful a assortment of configurations to circuit and grounds albums, past performing unneurotic successful 2019. But successful 2023, Kirke said the set was apt done owed to a assortment of wellness issues suffered by Rodgers implicit the past fewer years, with the vocalist revealing to CBS Mornings that twelvemonth that he’d suffered two large strokes — 1 successful 2016 and different successful 2019 — arsenic good arsenic 11 insignificant strokes.

This year’s RRHOF induction ceremonial volition watercourse unrecorded coast-to-coast on Disney+ Saturday (Nov. 8), astatine 8 p.m. ET, and volition beryllium disposable to watercourse pursuing the ceremony. ABC volition besides aerial a primetime peculiar with show highlights and standout moments connected Jan. 1, astatine 8 p.m. ET, disposable the adjacent time on Hulu.

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