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New York City (1976 – present, 1990 – present, 2005 – present)

Foreigner is a band formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald, along with then-unknown vocalist Lou Gramm (Louis Grammatico). Foreigner has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide (including over 36 million in the United States alone).

The band is led by British journeyman rocker 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 of Rochester, NY - As well as three other musicians who were all unknown at the time to form a sextet.

The band’s debut album Foreigner sold more than four million copies in the United States and stayed in the Top Twenty for a year with such hits as “PlayFeels Like The First Time”, “PlayCold As Ice”, and “Long Long Way From Home”. Their sophomore effort, “Double Vision, topped their previous selling five million records and spawned “PlayHot Blooded” and title track “PlayDouble Vision”. The third album Head Games was also successful due to the thunderous “PlayDirty White Boy” and another title track hit “PlayHead Games”. 1980 brought personnel changes so that now the band was a quartet and Rick Wills played bass. The departed members Gagliardi and Greenwood went on to the failed band Spys.

Foreigner’s next album, their fourth and appropriately named 4, was their biggest hit containing “Jukebox Hero”, “PlayWaiting For A Girl Like You”, and “”PlayUrgent”. Their next album, Agent Provocateur, gave them their only #1 hit, a gospel-inspired ballad backed by the New Jersey Mass Choir, “I Want to Know What Love Is”. The band then released Inside Information, but in the late 1980s Jones and Gramm each put out solo efforts and the band dissolved.
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