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Since their inception in 1976, the Anglo-American band Foreigner has established itself as one of the premiere rock groups to have emerged from the late 1970s music scene. In the United States alone, the band’s sales have exceeded 30 million albums and singles.

During Foreigner’s worldwide tour for their highly successful and most popular album 4, both Robert Plant and Jimmy Page—formerly of Led Zeppelin—joined Foreigner on stage in Germany, while singer Sheryl Crow provided some backup vocals on new songs recorded for Foreigner’s Very Best… and Beyond album. Some of the many artists who have opened for Foreigner over the globe throughout the years have included Bryan Adams, the Cars, Cheap Trick, the Ramones, and Billy Squier. All of these accomplishments were achieved despite the fact that many music critics derided Foreigner as "formulaic" in their mass-market appeal.

According to the unofficial Foreigner Inside Information website, the band came into existence in early 1976

when Mick Jones met multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald at a recording session for Ian Lloyd. A few months later, Jones and McDonald created the band Foreigner when they hooked up with four then unknown musicians including lead vocalist Lou Gramm who was the founder and lead singer with the band Black Sheep. The original lineup came into being with the addition of Dennis Elliott on drums, Al Greenwood on keyboards and synthesizers, and Ed Gagliardi on bass.

Their self-titled debut album was released on Atlantic in 1977. The album sold in excess of four million copies in America alone and remained on the Billboard Top Twenty for one year. This rather impressive feat was due, in no small part, to the strength of the two Top Ten singles that were released from the album—"Cold as Ice" and "Feels Like the First Time." The success of the album Foreigner earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist of 1977.

Not content to rest on their laurels, Foreigner released Double Vision the following year. It was a Top Five album, which continued to further the chart success of Foreigner; two Top Five singles, "Hot Blooded" and the title track joined the steadily growing list of accomplishments the band was tallying up. Foreigner’s increased excursions into the top of the charts enabled them to headline the prestigious English summer music celebration known as the Reading Festival in 1978.

Success Follows Foreigner into the ’80s
By the advent of the 1980s, the Foreigner line-up was whittled down to a quartet with the loss of Gagliardi and Greenwood and the addition of Rick Willis on bass. The release of 4 in 1981 ushered in Foreigner’s biggest sales—a whopping six million. Two more Top Five singles were added to the ever-growing list of hits, "Waiting for a Girl like You" and "Urgent" which featured Junior Walker on saxophone. Additional accolades racked up by 4 included a Grammy nomination for the Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1981 and a Canadian Juno Award nomination for International Album of the Year in 1983. In 1982 Foreigner released their greatest hits album, Records.

Two years later Foreigner released Agent Provocateur, which eventually went platinum. Foreigner’s first number one single "I Want to Know What Love is" was culled from this album and featured backing vocals from the New Jersey Mass Choir. Also charting from this album was the Top Twenty song "That Was Yesterday." "I Want to Know What Love is" was nominated for a Grammy for the Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1985. In that same year, the song took home the Canadian Juno Award for International Single of the Year.

The Beginning of the End
In 1987 Foreigner released Inside Information. This album also went platinum and yielded the Top Ten hit "Say You Will." The following year Gramm left the band to pursue a solo career. He reached the top of the charts twice with a Top Ten hit in 1987 and again two years later. Around this time, Jones released a solo album as well, although it barely managed to crack the Top 200 Album chart.

Vocalist Johnny Edwards was brought on board as a replacement for Gramm in 1991 and the band released Unusual Heat. By the following year, Edwards was out and Gramm was back in recording three new tracks for Foreigner’s The Very Best… and Beyond, which featured backing vocals provided by singer Sheryl Crow. Classic Hits Live (1993) was a collection of live material culled from performances all over the globe spanning Foreigner’s career from 1977-1985.

Mr. Moonlight was released on Rhythm Safari in 1995 and marked a turning point for Foreigner. According to the Rock Band Home Page website, not only was Jones "playing acoustic guitar more than he ever has for Foreigner, the two most recent additions to the band line-up—bassist Bruce Turgon and keyboardist Jeff Jacobs have contributed some song writing on the album."

In the Rhythm Safari press release for Mr. Moonlight, Gramm was quoted as saying, "I always felt that Foreigner never quite lived up to our own expectations, but I think with this album we’re taking a big step to where we want to be. I want this to be what it always should have been… and better than it ever was." The press release went on to add that Jones felt "that the sound of Mr. Moonlight not only takes Foreigner further than it’s ever gone before, but again puts the band on the map as a competitive entity…. We’ve really reformed this band…. Part of it is being driven by the new blood in the band, and I think it’s done us both [Jones and Gramm] a lot of good." And Entertainment Weekly’s Chuck Eddy lauded the album’s skillful production: "Almost every track here is as magnificently produced and hookful as the filler on Double Vision or 4."

Foreigner has also been credited for its significant contribution to rock music for two decades. By the late 1990s, the band was still adding a great deal of energy and vitality to its live performances, and audiences were still responding enthusiastically.

Selected discography
Foreigner (includes "Feels Like the First Time" and "Cold as Ice"), Atlantic, 1977.
Double Vision (includes "Hot Blooded" and "Double Vision"), Atlantic, 1978.
Head Games (includes "Headgames"), Atlantic, 1979. 4 (includes "Waiting for a Girl like You," "Juke Box Hero," "and Urgent"), Atlantic, 1981.
Records (greatest hits), Atlantic, 1982.
Agent Provocateur (includes "I Want to Know What Love Is"), Atlantic, 1984.
Inside Information (includes "I Don’t Want to Live Without You" and "Say You Will"), Atlantic, 1987.
Unusual Heat, Atlantic, 1991.
Very Best… and Beyond, Atlantic, 1992.
Classic Hits Live, Atlantic, 1993.
Mr. Moonlight, Rhythm Safari, 1995.

Sources
Periodicals
Amusement Business, May 13, 1993.
Entertainment Weekly, December 17, 1993; February 24, 1995.
People, December 26, 1983; February 4, 1985; August 26, 1991.

Online
http://members.aol.com/insideinfo/foreigner/home.htm
Additional information was provided by Rhythm Safari publicity materials, 1995.
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While quite a few arena rock acts of the '70s found the transformation into the '80s quite difficult, several acts continued to flourish and enjoyed some of their biggest commercial success: Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, and especially Foreigner. Foreigner's leader from the beginning has been British guitarist Mick Jones, who first broke into the music biz as a "hired gun" of sorts, appearing on recordings by George Harrison and Peter Frampton, and as part of a later-day version of hard rockers Spooky Tooth. By the mid-'70s, Jones had relocated to New York City, where he was a brief member of the Leslie West Band and served as an A&R man for a record company. But it wasn't long before Jones felt the urge to be part of another rock outfit as he sought to put together a band that would be able to combine elements of rock, progressive, R&B, and pop into a single, cohesive style.

Jones soon assembled a group consisting of ex-King Crimson sax 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), and Lou Gramm (vocals), the latter of which was previously a member of an obscure '70s outfit called Black Sheep. Jones found immediate songwriting chemistry with Gramm (one of the first songs they wrote together was the eventual hit "Cold As Ice"), resulting in the newly formed band taking the name Foreigner and signing a recording contract with Atlantic Records. Foreigner's self-titled debut was issued in 1977 and became an immediate hit on the strength of the hit singles "Feels Like the First Time," "Long, Long Way From Home," and the aforementioned "Cold As Ice," as the album would eventually go platinum five times over.

Foreigner avoided the dreaded sophomore slump with an even stronger follow-up release, 1978's Double Vision, which spawned such further hit singles as "Hot Blooded" and its title track, and the album stayed in the Top Ten for a solid six months. As a result, the album's success established the sextet as an arena headliner and would go on to become Foreigner's best-selling album of their career (selling seven million copies in the U.S. alone by 2001). The group's third release overall, Head Games, followed in 1979 and marked the first of many subsequent lineup changes for the group, as Gagliardi was replaced by ex-Peter Frampton and Roxy Music bassist Rick Wills. While the album was another big seller and turned out to be their most straight-ahead musically, both Gramm and Jones felt that the album failed to break any new ground, something that they sought to correct on their next album.

The band's lineup was cut back to just a quartet consisting of Jones, Gramm, Elliot, and Wills as super-producer Mutt Lange (who was fresh off the success of AC/DC's classic Back in Black) was enlisted to oversee the proceedings. The ploy worked and the resulting 1981 release, 4, was another massive seller, spawning such further hit singles as "Urgent" (which featured a blazing sax solo from Motown vet Junior Walker), "Jukebox Hero," and the power ballad "Waiting for a Girl Like You." Although the latter tune was a massive hit, it confused some of the band's following as to whether Foreigner was a hard rock band or balladeers. In 1982, a stopgap best-of set, Records, was released and featured ten of band's biggest hit singles, remaining a steady seller to this day (becoming Foreigner's second album to achieve sales of seven million by 2001).

It took Foreigner three years to complete a follow-up to 4 with Agent Provocateur being issued in 1984. The band made the transition to the MTV video age without a hitch with the over-the-top, gospel-inflected ballad "I Want to Know What Love Is" (which featured the New Jersey Mass Choir) becoming one of the biggest MTV and radio hits that year. But despite the single's success, there was a noticeable dip in sales for Agent Provocateur when compared to their earlier albums due to the fact that the album wasn't as focused and strong overall as their previous recordings. After a mammoth nine-month tour wrapped up a year later, both Jones and Gramm focused on non-Foreigner projects during 1986. Jones produced Bad Company's Fame and Fortune and co-produced Van Halen's hit debut recording with Sammy Hagar, 5150, while Gramm worked on a solo debut. The release of both Gramm's solo album, Ready or Not, as well as Foreigner's sixth studio album overall, Inside Information, came in 1987. While both were successful and spawned Top Ten hits (Gramm with "Midnight Blue" and Foreigner with "Say You Will"), tension 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, while Jones produced Billy Joel's Storm Front and issued a star-studded self-titled solo debut. Jones, Elliot, and Wills tried to keep Foreigner afloat with a new singer, Johnny Edwards, issuing a largely ignored album in 1991, Unusual Heat, while Gramm fared no better with a new outfit, Shadow King, issuing a forgotten self-titled debut the same year. Seeing the error in their split, both Jones and Gramm listened to the advice of Atlantic Records and reunited for the recording of three all-new tracks to be included on a more extensive "hits" collection. Issued in 1992, the 17-track The Very Best...And Beyond was Foreigner's most commercially successful release in several years along with the band's first live release, Classic Hits Live, issued a year later.

The Gramm/Jones reunion soon turned permanent and new members Bruce Turgon (bass) and Jeff Jacobs (keyboards) were welcomed on board. The latest version of Foreigner issued an all-new studio recording in 1995, Mr. Moonlight, which failed to return the group to the top of the charts. Foreigner remained a popular concert attraction, but the band's future was thrust into doubt in 1997 when Gramm was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Luckily, the tumor was non-cancerous and was removed shortly thereafter. Gramm's recovery was slow and painful, but by 1999, the singer was well enough for Foreigner to team up with Journey for a summer tour. The early 21st century saw the release of several archival collections courtesy of the Rhino label: a pair of additional collections, Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology and Complete Greatest Hits, as well as reissues of the group's self-titled debut and 4, both of which included extra bonus tracks. Can't Slow Down, a three-disc set that included a new studio album, a disc of remixed versions of the band's biggest hits, and a DVD documentary, arrived in 2009. ~ Greg Prato, Rovi
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Foreigner

Foreigner, after concert in San Francisco, California, September 2, 2009
Background information
Origin New York City
Genres Rock, hard rock
Years active 1976–present
Labels Rhythm Safari, Atlantic
Associated acts Spooky Tooth, King Crimson, Jason Bonham Band, Hurricane, Smash Mouth
Website http://www.foreigneronline.com/
Members
Mick Jones
Mark Schulman
Thom Gimbel
Jeff Pilson
Kelly Hansen
Michael Bluestein
Past members
See: Former members

Foreigner is a British-American rock band,[1] originally formed in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm. Foreigner has sold more than 70 million albums worldwide[citation needed] (including over 37.5 million in the United States alone).[2]

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Band history

Since its inception, Foreigner has been led by English musician Mick Jones (former member of Nero and the Gladiators, Spooky Tooth and The Leslie West Band) who, in early 1976, met with ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald and formed Foreigner with Lou Gramm (ex-Black Sheep), Dennis Elliott, Al Greenwood, and Ed Gagliardi as a sextet. Jones came up with the name from the fact that he, McDonald, and Elliott were English, while Gramm, Greenwood, and Gagliardi were Americans.[3]

The band's debut album Foreigner was released in March 1977 and sold more than four million copies in the United States, staying in the Top 20 for a year with such hits as "Feels Like the First Time," "Cold as Ice" and "Long, Long Way from Home".

Their second album, Double Vision (released in June 1978), topped their previous, selling five million records and spawned "Hot Blooded," the title track "Double Vision" and "Blue Morning Blue Day."

Their third album, Head Games (August 1979), which was referred to by Gramm as their "grainiest" album, was also successful because of the thunderous "Dirty White Boy" and another title track hit "Head Games." For Head Games, bassist Ed Gagliardi was replaced by Englishman Rick Wills.

In September 1980 keyboardist Al Greenwood and co-founder Ian McDonald were sacked as Jones wished to have more control over the band and write most of the music (along with Gramm). The band was now stripped down to a quartet, with session players brought in as needed to record or tour (see below for complete list of members). Greenwood soon joined Gagliardi to form the AOR band Spys, with John Blanco, Billy Milne, and John DiGaudio. The band released two albums, a self-titled debut, and the follow-up Behind Enemy Lines.

In the meantime, Foreigner's next album, 4 (released in July 1981), contained "Urgent" (which includes a Junior Walker sax solo), "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Juke Box Hero" and "Break it Up." Before releasing albums of his own, Thomas Dolby played synthesizers on 4 (he contributed the signature synth sound on "Urgent" and played the intro to "Waiting For A Girl Like You").[4] For their 1981-82 tour in support of 4, the group added Peter Reilich (keyboards, synthesizers, who'd played with Gary Wright), former Peter Frampton band member Bob Mayo (keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, backing vocals) and Mark Rivera (sax, flute, keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, backing vocals). Mayo and Rivera had also appeared on the sessions for 4. Reilich was dropped in May 1982 but Mayo and Rivera continued with the band through 1988.

Their next album, Agent Provocateur, was released successfully in December 1984, and gave them their first and only No. 1 hit in 1985 (in U.S., UK, Australia, Norway, Sweden, etc.), "I Want to Know What Love Is," written by Mick Jones, a gospel-inspired ballad backed by the New Jersey Mass Choir.[5][6][7] The song was their biggest US hit. "That Was Yesterday" was the next single from the album in early 1985 and proved to be another sizable hit.

In December 1987, Foreigner released Inside Information, spawning hits such as "Say You Will" and "I Don't Want to Live Without You."

On May 14, 1988 the band headlined Atlantic Records' 40th anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden, culminating with "I Want to Know What Love Is," in which the likes of Phil Collins, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Roberta Flack and other Atlantic artists joined in, singing in the choir. Later that year, the band went back on the road. But the touring for Inside Information was limited to Europe, Japan and Australia. For this tour, Mark Rivera and Bob Mayo were not available, so Larry Oakes (guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals) and Lou Cortelezzi (sax) augmented the quartet of Gramm, Jones, Elliott and Wills.

In the late 1980s, Jones and Gramm each put out solo efforts on Atlantic. Gramm released Ready or Not in July 1987 and Jones had Mick Jones in August 1989. Gramm followed with his second solo release, Long Hard Look (October 1989), and decided to leave the group in March 1990, while preparing to tour behind Long Hard Look.

In June 1990 Mick Jones brought in a new lead vocalist, Johnny Edwards (formerly of the bands Buster Brown, Montrose, King Kobra, Northrup and Wild Horses). This edition of Foreigner released the album Unusual Heat in June 1991. This was at the time their worst selling album and only climbed as high as No. 117 on the Billboard 200, although "Lowdown and Dirty" was a minor mainstream rock hit, reaching No. 4 on that chart. For their 1991 tour, Jeff Jacobs, who'd played in Billy Joel's band, was brought in as the new keyboardist and Mark Rivera returned. But just after the start of this tour, Elliott decided to leave the group. Larry Aberman was then recruited as a temporary replacement. Since 1992 several other drummers have come & gone, including Mark Schulman (1992–1995, 2000–2002, 2011–present), Ron Wikso (1995–1998), Brian Tichy (1998–2000, 2007, 2008–2010), Denny Carmassi (2002–2003), Jason Bonham (2004–2007, 2007–2008), Bryan Head (2008) and Jason Sutter (2010–2011). Scott Gilman(guitar, sax, flute) joined the touring band in 1992 and took over from Rivera in 1993 after he departed. Thom Gimbel briefly subbed for Gilman in 1993 then replaced him permanently in 1995.

During the Los Angeles riots in late April 1992, inside the confines of the Sunset Marquis hotel in downtown LA, where Mick Jones had gone to meet with Lou Gramm, they both ended up sequestered due to a city curfew. They decided to use their time together putting a two year feud to rest and resurrecting their partnership. "I flew to Los Angeles, during the riots," says Gramm. "We got flown to John Wayne Airport instead of LAX because they were shooting at the planes. Mick and I were holed up in the Sunset Marquis in LA, with armed security guards walking around on the roof. It was a little weird, to say the least."

Gramm ended up rejoining Foreigner (bringing along his Shadow King bandmate bassist Bruce Turgon) and produced the band's second greatest hits album, The Very Best of ... and Beyond(September 1992), which included three new songs.

In November 1994 Foreigner released what was supposed to be a comeback album, Mr. Moonlight, in Japan. This album was not released in the US until February 1995 but fared even worse than Unusual Heat, although the ballad "Until the End of Time" was a minor hit, reaching No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In 1997 Gramm underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor. The medications he was prescribed caused considerable weight gain and affected his singing voice.

In 2001 the Warner Music Group selected Foreigner and 4 to be among the first group of albums from their catalog to be remastered, enhanced and released in the new DVD Audio format. In 2002 the 25th Anniversary Year brought affirmation of the enduring respect for Foreigner recordings with Rhino Entertainment re-issuing the 1977-1981 multi-platinum albums in special enhanced formats. Foreigner, Double Vision, Head Games and 4 received the attention of Rhino's staff with new photos, liner notes and bonus tracks of previously unreleased material. New greatest hits albums were also produced in the U.S. and in Europe. The U.S. version reached No. 80 on the Billboard 200 Album chart.

In November 2002, Foreigner played in the Netherlands at the annual Night of the Proms festival. It was the last time to date that Gramm and Jones played together. Gramm would leave the group in early 2003. Jones stated that he and Gramm split because they weren't communicating: "I think we really tried hard to save it, but it got to the point when we both realized that to go on would be detrimental for both of us."[8]

Jones, the founder and only remaining original member of Foreigner, decided to take some time off before looking to form a new lineup in 2004. On July 25, 2004, in Santa Barbara, California at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort, Jones appeared at a benefit show for Muscular Dystrophy with a brand new version of Foreigner that included: Jeff Jacobs, Thom Gimbel, former Dokken bass player Jeff Pilson, current UFO drummer Jason Bonham (son of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, who had also played with the brief Led Zeppelin reunions and his own band Bonham) and Bonham singer Chaz West. West was hired for that show only and was eventually replaced by former Hurricane singer Kelly Hansen, who'd sent the band an audition tape and was invited aboard in March 2005.

Foreigner joined Def Leppard along with Styx on tour in 2007. They also toured extensively in their own right in 2007 - the thirtieth anniversary of the release of their debut.

Their 2005 BMG album, Extended Versions, featured the new line-up playing all their classic hits live in concert in one of the most "studio like, clean sounding" live album recordings produced.

In September 2007 it was announced that Foreigner would join Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman and the Rhythm Kings, and Paolo Nutini as openers for the one-night-only Led Zeppelin reunion show in memory of Atlantic Records' Ahmet Ertegun. The show took place on December 10, 2007 in London, England, having been postponed by 2 weeks because Jimmy Page fractured a finger.

In late 2007 keyboardist Jeff Jacobs left Foreigner after a 16 year tenure and was replaced, first by Paul Mirkovich then by Michael Bluestein (in 2008).

The band released a greatest hits anthology on July 15, 2008 titled No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner. The anthology included all of their greatest hits plus some new live recordings and a new studio track, "Too Late", which was their first new song release since 1994's Mr. Moonlight, and the first recorded output of the new lineup.[9] "Too Late" was released as a single on June 17, 2008. In 2008, Bonham parted ways with Foreigner. Bryan Head was then brought in to fill the drum chair. But his tenure was short and he also departed to be replaced by the returning Brian Tichy.

Foreigner released a new album on October 2, 2009 titled Can't Slow Down. It was one of several recent classic rock releases (AC/DC, The Eagles, Journey, and Kiss being four others) to be released exclusively through the Wal-Mart stores chain in the US while in Europe the album has been released by earMUSIC (a label part of the Edel group), charting top 20 in Germany (16) and Top 30 in Switzerland.

In early 2010 Foreigner teamed up with Styx and Kansas for the United in Rock Tour.[10]

On May 4, 2010 it was announced that Brian Tichy's replacement as drummer would be Jason Sutter.

On May 22, 2010 Foreigner played a show at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. Whitesnake guitar player Doug Aldrich subbed for Mick Jones for this show leaving the band with no original members for this date.

Jason Sutter's tenure with the band was short as he left by 2011. Mark Schulman then returned to Foreigner for his third go-round as drummer.

On February 20, 2011 the band played for the first time in Bangalore city in India along with sitar player Niladri Kumar.[11]

In June 2011 Foreigner (again along with Styx) supported Journey on their UK tour. After this, they joined up with Journey and Night Ranger on a triple bill summer/fall tour of the US.

From August 19, 2011 through September 10, 2011, Night Ranger guitarist Joel Hoekstra did double duty playing for NR as well as subbing for Mick Jones, who had taken ill. Right after this, guitarist Bruce Watson (ex-Rod Stewart) was brought in as Mick's stand-in for the tour's remaining dates.

In addition to touring small clubs and venues, the band frequently is engaged for private parties and conventions.[12]

Band members

  • Mick Jones – lead guitar, keyboards, bass, vocals (1976–present)
  • Mark Schulman – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1992–1995, 2000–2002, 2011–present)
  • Thom Gimbel – guitar, saxophone, flute, backing vocals (1993, 1995–present)
  • Jeff Pilson – bass, backing vocals (2004–present)
  • Kelly Hansen – lead vocals (2005–present)
  • Michael Bluestein – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals (2008–present)

Former members

  • Lou Gramm – lead vocals (1976–1990, 1992–2003)
  • Ian McDonald – guitar, keyboards, saxophone, flute, backing vocals (1976–1980)
  • Dennis Elliott – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1976–1991)
  • Al Greenwood – keyboards, synthesizers (1976–1980)
  • Ed Gagliardi – bass, backing vocals (1976–1979)
  • Rick Wills – bass, backing vocals (1979–1992)
  • Mark Rivera – saxophone, flute, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals (1981–1988, 1991–1992)
  • Bob Mayo – keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, backing vocals (1981–1988)
  • Peter Reilich – keyboards, synthesizers (1981–1982)
  • Jack Allen Smith – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1986)
  • Larry Oakes – guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals (1988)
  • Lou Cortelezzi – saxophone (1988)
  • Johnny Edwards – lead vocals, guitar (1990–1992)
  • Larry Aberman – drums, percussion (1991–1992)
  • Jeff Jacobs – keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals (1991–2007)
  • Scott Gilman – guitar, saxophone, backing vocals (1992, 1993–1995)
  • Bruce Turgon – bass, backing vocals (1992–2003)
  • Ron Wikso – drums, percussion (1995–1998)
  • Brian Tichy – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1998–2000, 2007, 2008–2010)
  • John Purdell – keyboards, synthesizers(filled in for Jacobs 2000)
  • Denny Carmassi – drums, percussion (2002)
  • Chaz West – lead vocals (2004)
  • Jason Bonham – drums, percussion, backing vocals (2004–2007, 2007–2008)
  • Paul Mirkovich – keyboards, synthesizers (2007–2008)
  • Bryan Head – drums, percussion (2008)
  • Jason Sutter - drums, percussion (2010–2011)

Timeline

Discography

Main article: Foreigner discography

Studio albums

Year Title U.S. UK[13] GER AUT[14] CH[15] RIAA Certification[16] BPI Certification[17]
1977 Foreigner 4 - - - - 5x-Platinum -
1978 Double Vision 3 32 - - - 7x-Platinum -
1979 Head Games 5 - 39 - - 5x-Platinum -
1981 4 1 5 4 - - 6x-Platinum Gold
1984 Agent Provocateur 4 1 1 10 1 3x-Platinum Platinum
1987 Inside Information 15 64 7 - 7 Platinum Silver
1991 Unusual Heat 117 56 - 30 8 - -
1994 Mr. Moonlight 136 59 21 - 17 - -
2009 Can't Slow Down 29 105 16 58 26 - -

See also

References

  1. ^ Prown, Newquist, Eiche (1997) Legends of rock guitar: the essential reference of rock's greatest guitarists p.179. Hal Leonard Corporation, 1997. ISBN 0793540429
  2. ^ "RIAA – Top Selling Artists". Recording Industry Association of America. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=tblTopArt&action=. Retrieved February 3, 2010. 
  3. ^ http://www.foreignerfiles.com/overview/faq/part1.htm Accessed: March 11, 2007
  4. ^ http://www.connollyco.com/discography/foreigner/four.html Accessed: February 21, 2008
  5. ^ I Want to Know What Love Is Allmusic Retrieved February 13, 2011
  6. ^ I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner Billboard Retrieved February 13, 2011
  7. ^ Billboard Oct 19, 1985 Retrieved February 13, 2011
  8. ^ Chiu, David. "Foreigner Get a Makeover". Rolling Stone. May 19, 2005.
  9. ^ 'No End In Sight' For Foreigner
  10. ^ LiveDaily.com(March 2010)
  11. ^ http://www.buzzintown.com/bangalore/event--live-foreigner-band-india-tour-along-niladri-kumar/id--342283.html
  12. ^ [1] VMworld 2009 Party
  13. ^ "UK Albums chart history". http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=670. Retrieved August 9, 2009. 
  14. ^ "austriancharts.at - Austria Top 40 - Hitparade Österreich". austriancharts.at. http://austriancharts.at/search.asp?search=foreigner&cat=a. Retrieved August 16, 2009. 
  15. ^ "Die Offizielle Schweizer Hitparade und Music Community". hitparade.ch. http://hitparade.ch/search.asp?search=foreigner&cat=a. Retrieved August 16, 2009. 
  16. ^ "RIAA searchable certification database". Recording Industry Association of America. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=Foreigner%20&format=ALBUM&go=Search&perPage=50. Retrieved February 3, 2011. 
  17. ^ "BPI searchable certification database". British Phonographic Industry. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx. Retrieved February 3, 2011. 

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