This fact somehow eluded VH1 during a 1999 special where they mistakenly filmed segments at the Flint Holiday Inn Express. The good news was that Holiday Inn took advantage of the VH1 special's publicity to formally lift its lifetime ban on The Who.

The legendary "lifetime ban" of The Who from all Holiday Inns is largely a piece of rock-and-roll mythology based on a chaotic 21st birthday party for drummer Keith Moon in 1967. The incident involved an exploded cake, a fire extinguisher, and a Lincoln Continental reportedly ending up in a swimming pool at a Flint, Michigan, location. While the band was certainly unwelcome at that specific hotel and potentially others in the chain for decades, the ban is no longer in effect. In fact, Keith Urban and Pete Townshend have joked about it in interviews, and the band has stayed in various Holiday Inn properties during tours in the 21st century. The "ban" became a badge of honor that helped define the era's wild reputation, but in the modern corporate world of IHG Hotels & Resorts, the band is treated as any other high-profile guest—provided they keep the cakes away from the explosives.