Foreigner
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Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 23 October 2009
On songwriting, production and working with stepson Mark Ronson: the Englishman in New York fills in the gaps.
File format: mp3; file size: 34.2mb; Interview length: 37' 21"; sound quality: ***
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Foreigner: Foreigner (Atlantic SD 18215 )*½ .
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 28 May 1977
REMEMBER IAN McDonald? That's right, the geezer who used to mess around something chronic on keyboards for King Crimson back in the early days when ...
Foreigner: Foreigner (Atlantic SD 18215)
Review by Bob Spitz, Crawdaddy!, June 1977
FOREIGNER IS a Boston/Cream pie a la mode whose futile search for the perfect hard-rock formula is diverted long enough for them to squeeze out ...
Rock & Roll Prowess Heralds Foreigner
Profile by Toby Goldstein, Circus, 9 June 1977
THE STAGGERING success of Foreigner's debut Atlantic LP and single, 'Feels Like the First Time', proves that the world has been waiting for yet another ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd/ Foreigner/Ted Nugent: Rock And Roll All Nite
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 17 September 1977
AN AFTERNOON of heavy rock at the Los Angeles sports stadium. Score: Lynyrd Skynyrd – Win. Foreigner – Place. Nugent – Show. ...
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 8 April 1978
THERE WEREN'T even traffic jams. ...
Foreigner’s Road Map: Destination Top Ten
Interview by John Mendelssohn, Rolling Stone, 4 May 1978
IN THE SPRING of 1976, Mick Jones found himself. With a dwindling bank account and dim prospects, even after twelve years of playing guitar and ...
Foreigner: Unruffled by Platinum Pressure
Interview by Sam Sutherland, High Fidelity, July 1978
SPEAKING QUIETLY over the hum of a transoceanic phone connection. Foreigner's Mick Jones doesn't seem the least bit threatened by the musical and mercantile similarities ...
Foreigner: Live in Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 25 November 1978
FOREIGNER ARE pretty much a thinking man's Bay City Rollers. ...
Foreigner: The Other Mick Jones Interview
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 20 October 1979
SUPERMEGAPLATINUM SALES TECHNIQUE FOR BEGINNERS: FOREIGNER EDUCATE SANDY ROBERTSON ...
Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, October 1981
This is what? These guys’ second or third LP since Mick Jones publicly declared F’gner ain’t dinosaurs and that they were really starting to get, ...
Report by J.D. Considine, Musician, October 1981
Band like REO, Styx and Journey have taken the details of the rock sound and made the medium the whole message, capitalizing on the rock ...
Report and Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 4 January 1982
BY 10:30 SATURDAY night, the line in front of the Club Lingerie, a trendy Hollywood rock spot catering to in-crowd tastes, stretched around the corner. ...
Foreigner: The Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 4 March 1982
FOREIGNER HAS managed to transcend the clichés of the much-vilified heavy metal rock form. Their Forum show was a powerful, direct lesson in how to ...
Foreigner: The Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 4 March 1982
FOREIGNER HAS managed to transcend the clichés of the much-vilified heavy metal rock form. Their Forum show was a powerful, direct lesson in how to ...
Foreigner: Fame, 4 Tune + 4 Play
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 1 May 1982
Sylvie Simmons joins the FOREIGNER legion to meet Mick Jones ...
Foreigner: Agent Provocateur (Atlantic)
Review by Craig Zeller, Creem, April 1985
HAVE TO admit I've had some good times inspired by Foreigner. Why, just this afternoon I dozed off watching MTV (understandably so) and had a ...
Foreigner: Feels Like The Fifth Time
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, June 1985
THERE ARE TIMES when you truly appreciate Foreigner. For instance, like when Madonna's 'Like A Virgin' comes on the air. A navel she may have, ...
Lou Gramm: A Jaunt to Dimension Solo
Profile and Interview by Chuck Eddy, Creem, August 1987
BEST WAY to kick this off is to can the corny suspense and letcha in on what the man told me, which I'm sure as ...
Foreigner: Inside Information (Atlantic)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1988
LONG-TIME Foreigner fans should open this album's gatefold jacket very slowly (if at all), as the double-spread group photo within confirms that Our Boys are ...
Does Keith Olsen really believe in this stuff, or what?
Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, November 1988
IT'S EASY to sneer at the increasingly predictable formulas that sell records in the millions these days. What's hard is to actually believe in the ...
Report and Interview by Bob Spitz, Delta Sky, December 1997
IT WASN'T UNTIL Friday night, when Frank Gonzales belted out a monster version of 'Double Vision', that everyone realized the significance-the true beauty of the ...
Drowning in Genius: Surveying this season's mountain of greatest-hits albums
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, December 2000
SO, WHAT'LL IT BE: Tears for Fears? .38 Special? Whitesnake? It's become impossible to keep abreast of all the best-ofs, as labels keep foisting greatest-hits ...
The Soul in the Machine: Whatever Happened to Atlantic Records?
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, What'd I Say, 2001
"UNFORTUNATELY, we’re running a big business here now," Ahmet Ertegun confessed to author Gerri Hirshey in 1982. "And it sort of ... well, it drives ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, bbc.co.uk, September 2009
A ghastly collection that might as well have been written by a computer ...
High LOL-tage: Mike Diver's classic rock adventure
Live Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 3 August 2010
The other day our former overlord Mike Diver phoned up DiS HQ to belligerently demand we implement what he described as "the final phase" of ...
see also Lou Gramm
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