Of course, one could argue that their debut album and '4' were their greatest works. As far as I am concerned, writing a great anthemic song like 'Cold As Ice,' (IMHO, one of the best songs of the 1970's) and being linked to King Crimson via original multi-instrumentalist Ian MacDonald is not a bad thing either. I will not deny that Mick Jones had wanted to have a successful band, but what's wrong with that? Lou Gramm had been an outstanding vocalist and has been the co-writer of many great songs. A power play any CEO would be proud of.įoreigner had been accused by critics of being a "faceless" band, or corporate rock for many years. He ran it like a business from the start with the auditions in New York and then the time came to consolidate power, so he fired the most talented member of the band Ian McDonald who played with King Crimson as well as Al Greenwood the keyboard player. In the end Foreigner was Mick Jones' baby. You saw the same with groups in the late 70s early 80s like Styx and Babe, Best Of Times and Journey with Whos Crying Now and Open Arms. Waiting for a Girl Like You was elevator music that made them a lot of money, and so on, and so on.įoreigner fits my definition of corporate rock because when an album by a band known for a certain type of music puts one or two songs on the album that don't sound like the others and it just so happens that those two songs go top 10, it's pretty obvious the band is trying to please the boys at corporate headquarters so they can continue to be employed. Urgent was a disco song that made them a lot of money. After Head Games it was all downhill into a sea of blandness and predictability. Keith Tucker called it "incredibly self-absorbed and nearly paralyzed by redoubled caution." I have it and I don't think there's anything on it worth remembering except Double Vision and Blue Morning Blue Day. Rolling Stone did not like Double Vision. I would respect them way better if they had written more songs like Starrider and less songs for 16 year olds looking at daddy's Playboy like Hot Blooded.
It can't be denied that Foreigner has accomplishedĪ great deal of commercial success.
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In the late 80s, Gramm released two solo albums to critical and commercial acclaim entitled Ready or Not and Long Hard Look, respectively, which produced several Top 10 hit singles including, “Midnight Blue”, “Just Between You And Me” and the Top 40 hit “True Blue Love.” Gramm also contributed a song to the soundtrack for the 1987 movie The Lost Boys, titled “Lost In The Shadows.” In May 2013, Triumph Books will release Gramm’s biography, Juke Box Hero. A Grammy® and Golden Globe-nominated songwriter, Jones is the winner of the prestigious British Ivor Novello songwriter award for the song “The Flame Still Burns,” from the soundtrack Still Crazy. Major songs in the Jones and Gramm catalog include “Juke Box Hero,” “Hot Blooded” and “Waiting For A Girl Like You.” A multi-talented and multi-dimensional “musician’s musician,” Jones has also written songs such as “Bad Love” with Eric Clapton and “Dreamer” with Ozzy Osbourne, and produced records for others including Billy Joel’s Storm Front and Van Halen’s 5150. Other iconic songs include “Feels Like The First Time,” “Cold As Ice” and “Long, Long Way From Home” from their self-titled 1977 debut album. Universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world, the band is responsible for some of the greatest rock anthems of our time, including the worldwide #1 hit, “I Want To Know What Love Is,” which today remains as one of the 25 most performed songs in the ASCAP catalog. Key songs in the Jones/Gramm catalog include “Juke Box Hero,” “Waiting For A Girl Like You,” “Cold As Ice,” Hot Blooded” and “Double Vision.”įoreigner’s legendary songwriting partners, Mick Jones and Lou Gramm, have together propelled an arsenal of ten multi-platinum albums and multiple Top 30 hits. 1 in 1985 with the massive gospel-inspired “I Want To Know What Love Is.” Their songwriting prowess was proven from the outset with the self-titled 1977 debut album, which yielded the hits “Feels Like The First Time,” “Cold As Ice” and “Long, Long Way From Home.” Hits like “Hot Blooded,” “Double Vision,” “Urgent” and “Waiting For A Girl Like You” followed, and they reached No. THE 2013 SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME NOMINATION AND INDUCTION BIOSįoreigner’s songwriting partnership of England’s Mick Jones and America’s Lou Gramm resulted in immense album sales and huge hits during the 1970s and ‘80s.
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