During an interview with Chaoszine, former Judas Priest guitarist, K.K. Downing, was asked to share how was it to reunite with the former band at last year’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony. About this, Downing replied:
“Well, I was kind of debating whether to go, whether to go there and do it or not because of all the circumstances. Plus, it was a long way to go. […]
”(Priest) manager told us that we were guests of the band, me and Les (Binks). I’m going, ‘F*ck off.’ If anything, I’m a guest of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, but I’m there to accept my own award in my own right. I’m not a guest of anybody. And then they were gonna dictate the songs and what was gonna (be) play(ed).
”So I said, ‘Oh, f*ck. Should I bother doing this?’ You know what I mean? ‘Can I be really bothered?’ And then people were saying, ‘You’ve gotta go. It’ll never happen again, obviously, in your lifetime.
”You deserve this.’ And anyway, so I decided, ‘Okay, I’ll go.’ But, obviously, we were kept separated and not allowed to walk the red carpet together, which is all very sad, but that’s the way that they wanted it.”