a 2026 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee<\/a>, was in attendance Thursday at Downey, California\u2019s Griffiths Middle School for the event, where the rocker performed his \u201cRebel Yell\u201d backed by the school band as well as participated in a Q&A with students.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cRock & roll gave me a place to belong and a way to express myself.\u00a0 It\u2019s fantastic to see these kids playing music and getting the chance to experience that same excitement,\u201d Idol said in a statement to Rolling Stone. \u201cMusic opens up a whole world of possibilities, and every kid deserves the opportunity to find that out for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSave The Music and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation previously announced an initiative to fund at least 25 new music programs over the next three years while bringing Rock Hall inductees into the classrooms to further inspire future musicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\n\tWhile Thursday\u2019s event was held at Griffiths Middle School, neighboring Doty Middle School \u2014 another school within the Downey Unified School District \u2014 will be the recipient of a $55,000 music education grant in 2027 that will provide new instruments to the school.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWhen I was in school, picking up an instrument changed everything for me,\u201d Idol added. \u201cSave The Music and The Rock Hall are making sure these students have the same shot, and I\u2019m proud to be part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Save the Music initiative will provide grants to 25 schools\u2019 music programs over the next three years Billy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1356,7,9,8,87020],"class_list":["post-505645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-billy-idol","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}