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Foreigner

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Foreigner formed in New York City in 1976, founded by British guitarist Mick Jones and American vocalist Lou Gramm, and immediately found the commercial sweet spot between hard rock and pop that would make them one of the biggest rock acts of the late 1970s and 1980s. Their 1977 self-titled debut album produced two top-five singles — "Feels Like the First Time" and "Cold as Ice" — in its first release, establishing both the band's commercial reach and their ability to write rock songs that worked simultaneously as album tracks and radio singles.

Subsequent albums — Double Vision (1978), Head Games (1979), 4 (1981), and Agent Provocateur (1984) — each produced hit singles and platinum certifications, with "I Want to Know What Love Is" from Agent Provocateur becoming their only US number-one and one of the most recognizable power ballads in rock history. The band has continued recording and touring in various configurations through the decades, and their catalog retains the immediacy it had on first release — these are expertly constructed rock songs that have lost nothing in the forty-plus years since they were recorded. Touring with Lynyrd Skynyrd in 2026 positions them alongside an act of equivalent classic rock stature for audiences who want exactly this kind of bill.

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