Artist: Foreigner
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Rock: Hard-Rock
Pop
Discography:
Foreigner - Complete Greatest Hits
Year: 2002
Tracks: 20
Definitive
Year: 2002
Tracks: 20
Mr. Moonlight
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Records
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
Classic Hits Live
Year: 1993
Tracks: 14
The Very Best... and Beyond
Year: 1992
Tracks: 17
Unusual Heat
Year: 1991
Tracks: 11
Inside Information
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
Agent Provocateur
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
4
Year: 1981
Tracks: 10
Head Games
Year: 1979
Tracks: 10
Double Vision
Year: 1978
Tracks: 10
Foreigner
Year: 1977
Tracks: 10
Best of Ballads
Year:
Tracks: 17
While quite a few arena stone acts of the Apostles of the '70s establish the transformation into the '80s quite unmanageable, various acts continued to flourish and enjoyed some of their biggest commercial-grade success: Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, and particularly Foreigner. Foreigner's leader from the commencement has been British guitarist Mick Jones, world Health Organization low stony-broke into the euphony game as a "hired torpedo" of sorts, appearing on recordings by George Harrison and Peter Frampton, and as part of a later-day version of unvoiced bikers Spooky Tooth. By the mid-'70s, Jones had resettled to New York City, where he was a brief member of the Leslie West Band and served as an A&R man for a phonograph record company. But it wasn't long ahead Jones felt the press to be part of another rock outfit as he sought to place together a isthmus that would be able to combine elements of sway, progressive, R&B, and pop into a single, cohesive style.
Mother Jones presently assembled a group consisting of ex-King Crimson saxophone player Ian McDonald and ex-Ian Hunter drummer Dennis Elliot (both of whom were British), along with New York musicians Al Greenwood (keyboards), Ed Gagliardi (bass voice), and Lou Gramm (vocals), the latter of which was previously a member of an apart '70s outfit called Black Sheep. Jones set up immediate songwriting chemistry with Gramm (one of the first base songs they wrote together was the eventual arrive at "Cold As Ice"), resulting in the freshly formed band pickings the key out Foreigner and signing a recording contract with Atlantic Records. Foreigner's self-titled debut was issued in 1977 and became an immediate strike on the force of the arrive at singles "Feels Like the First Time," "Long, Long Way From Home," and the aforementioned "Cold As Ice," as the album would finally go atomic number 78 five-spot times all over.
Foreigner avoided the horrendous soph slump with an even stronger follow-up release, 1978's Double Vision, which spawned such further strike singles as "Hot Blooded" and its title track, and the album stayed in the Top Ten for a solid six-spot months. As a solution, the album's success established the sextet as an field headliner and would go on to become Foreigner's best-selling album of their career (selling sevener one thousand thousand copies in the U.S. lone by 2001). The group's third spill boilers suit, Head Games, followed in 1979 and pronounced the first base of many subsequent card changes for the group, as Gagliardi was replaced by ex-Peter Frampton and Roxy Music bassist Rick Wills. While the album was another big marketer and turned forbidden to be their virtually straight-ahead musically, both Gramm and Jones felt that the album failed to break any modern anchor, something that they sought to compensate on their next album.
The band's card was cut back to exactly a quartette consisting of Jones, Gramm, Elliot, and Wills as super-producer Mutt Lange (wHO was clean off the achiever of AC/DC's classical Back in Black) was enlisted to supervise the minutes. The gambit worked and the resulting 1981 spill, 4, was another massive trafficker, spawning such farther hit singles as "Pressing" (which featured a dazzling sax solo from Motown vet Junior Walker), "Nickelodeon Hero," and the mightiness ballad "Wait for a Girl Like You." Although the latter strain was a massive strike, it confounded some of the band's following as to whether Foreigner was a strong rock 'n' roll band or balladeers. In 1982, a stopgap best-of rig, Records, was released and featured ten-spot of band's biggest arrive at singles, left a steady vender to this day (comely Foreigner's second album to achieve gross revenue of seven-spot billion by 2001).
It took Foreigner triad days to discharge a review to 4 with Agentive role Provocateur existence issued in 1984. The band made the transition to the MTV video years without a preventative with the over-the-top, gospel-inflected ballad "I Want to Know What Love Is" (which featured the New Jersey Mass Choir) comme il faut one of the biggest MTV and radio set hits that year. But scorn the single's success, at that place was a noticeable douse in gross revenue for Agentive role Provocateur when compared to their sooner albums due to the fact that the album wasn't as focused and strong boilersuit as their premature recordings. After a mammoth nine-month term of enlistment mantled up a year later, both Jones and Gramm focused on non-Foreigner projects during 1986. Jones produced Bad Company's Renown and Fortune and co-produced Van Halen's strike debut recording with Sammy Hagar, 5150, spell Gramm worked on a solo debut. The sack of both Gramm's solo album, Ready or Not, as well as Foreigner's one-sixth studio album boilersuit, Inside Information, came in 1987. While both were successful and spawned Top Ten hits (Gramm with "Midnight Blue" and Foreigner with "Read You Will"), latent hostility between Gramm and Jones came to a head regarding the singer's desire to focus on his solo career, which lED to Gramm's split from Foreigner in 1989.
The same year as his split from Foreigner, Gramm issued his second solo album, Long Hard Look, which proved to be not as successful as its predecessor, spell Jones produced Billy Joel's Storm Front and issued a star-studded self-titled solo debut. Jones, Elliot, and Wills well-tried to keep Foreigner afloat with a raw singer, Johnny Edwards, issuance a for the most part neglected album in 1991, Unusual Heat, spell Gramm faired no better with a raw outfit, Shadow King, issuance a disregarded self-titled debut the same class. Seeing the error in their split, both Jones and Gramm listened to the advice of Atlantic Records and reunited for the recording of tercet all-new tracks to be included on a more extensive "hits" compendium. Issued in 1992, the 17-track The Very Best...And Beyond was Foreigner's most commercially successful tone ending in several years along with the band's commencement live spillage, Greco-Roman Hits Live, issued a yr later.
The Gramm/Jones reunion soon turned permanent and newfangled members Bruce Turgon (freshwater bass) and Jeff Jacobs (keyboards) were welcomed on board. The up-to-the-minute adaptation of Foreigner issued an all-new studio apartment recording in 1995, Mr. Moonlight, which failed to bring back the group to the tip of the charts. Foreigner remained a popular concert attraction, just the band's future was thrust into doubt in 1997 when Gramm was diagnosed with a brain neoplasm. Luckily, the neoplasm was non-cancerous and was removed short thenceforth. Gramm's recovery was dull and painful, just by 1999, the singer was well enough for Foreigner to team up with Journey for a summer term of enlistment. The early twenty-first century saw the release of several archival collections good manners of the Rhino label: a pair of extra collections, Nickelodeon Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology and Fill in Greatest Hits, as well as reissues of the group's self-titled debut and 4, both of which included extra incentive tracks.
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