The band continued to do well and in 1984 they hit the top of the charts worldwide with the album Agent Provocateur and the first single from that album I want to Know What Love Is.įollowing some solo work and then a return to Foreigner, the band released their album MR Moonlight in 1995. He contacted Lou, and, as the saying goes, the rest is history.įoreigner developed as an Anglo-American hard rock group and were establish from their first eponymous album, which reached number 4 in the US, with the singles It Feels Like the First Time and Cold as Ice, both becoming big hits in the US and the UK. After auditioning 40 vocalists, all unsuitable for the ‘sound’ he wanted, Mick remembered his meeting with Lou a year earlier and listened to the album Black Sheep which Lou had given him. Following some musical difficulties, Jones started looking for a lead vocalist for a new band he was planning in 1977. Lou’s big break came in 1976 when he met English guitarist Mick Jones, who was then playing with the well established group Spooky Tooth.

Lead vocalist Lou Gramm started his musical career in his mid-teens playing in local bands in Rochester, New York. Hits like Cold as Ice, It Feels Like the First Time and the world-wide monster hit I want to Know What Love Is propelled the band to global super-stardom.

In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s the American rock group Foreigner were one of the biggest acts around.

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