Foreigner

Foreigner is a British-American rock band, originally formed by 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 (including over 37.5 million in the United States alone).&nbsp Since its inception, Foreigner has been led by English musician Mick Jones who, in early 1976, met with ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald and formed Foreigner with Lou Gramm, Dennis Elliott, Al Greenwood, and Ed Gagliardi as a sextet.

Foreigner has released nine studio albums, two live albums, thirteen compilations and thirty nine singles. Seven of the studio albums has reached the top 30 of the Billboard 200 chart. The album, 4, was the band's only chart-topper in the U.S., while Agent Provocateur was their only album to achieved the same feat in the UK Albums Chart. Their best-selling albums are Double Vision and the compilation Records, which were certified seven times Platinum by the RIAA for shipments of over seven million copies.

Among the 39 singles released by the band, 14 of them became top 20 hits in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the number-one song "I Want to Know What Love Is" and the number-two "Waiting for a Girl Like You", which spent a record-setting 10 weeks at the #2 position of the chart without ever reaching the top. Four of these singles were certified Gold by the RIAA for shipments of over a million copies, all of them which peaked within the top 3. In spite of its British roots, the band achieved a much more moderate success in the UK Singles Chart, with only two of their songs, "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is", peaking within the top 20.

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, 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, was also successful because of the thunderous "Dirty White Boy" and another title track hit "Head Games."

4 was released in July 1981, and contained "Urgent", "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Juke Box Hero" and "Break it Up." Their next album, Agent Provocateur, was released successfully in December 1984, and gave them their first and only No. 1 hit in 1985, "I Want to Know What Love Is," written by Mick Jones, a gospel-inspired ballad backed by the New Jersey Mass Choir. 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.

In June 1991, Foreigner released the album Unusual Heat in June 1991 and it became 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. In September 1992, the band's second greatest hits album, The Very Best of ... and Beyond, was released and 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 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.

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.&nbsp 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.

Foreigner released a new album in October 2009 titled Can't Slow Down. It was one of several recent classic rock releases to be released exclusively through the Wal-Mart stores chain in the US while in Europe the album has been released by earMUSIC.

Music Videos

 * All I Need To Know
 * Heart Turns to Stone
 * I Don't Want to Live Without You
 * I Want To Know What Love Is
 * I'll Fight For You
 * Juke Box Hero
 * Lowdown and dirty
 * Say You Will
 * That Was Yesterday
 * Until The End of Time
 * Urgent
 * Waiting For a Girl Like You
 * With Heaven On Our Side