Foreigner

Foreigner’s music knows no bounds. More than 30 years after forming, the band’s music resonates across generations and the globe thanks to an impressive run of 14 Top 20 hits and album sales exceeding 70 million.

In 2007, Foreigner electrified audiences with an acclaimed world tour celebrating the multiplatinum success of the group’s first 30 years. But while the band was honoring its past achievements onstage, it was plotting Foreigner’s first album in more than 15 years, ‘Can’t Slow Down’.

Mick Jones, the band’s founder and legendary songwriter/guitarist, produced the new album with Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith and Buckcherry). Released in Autumn 2009, it was the first full-length album to feature Foreigner’s revamped lineup: Jones, singer Kelly Hansen, bassist Jeff Pilson, guitarist Tom Gimbel, keyboardist Michael Bluestein, and drummer Brian Tichy.

“‘Can’t Slow Down’ is about fresh starts.” Jones said. “For the band, it was a chance to step out from the shadow of the past and establish its own identity. Personally, the album helped me reclaim my confidence as an artist and rediscover the fun of making music again.”

A powerful mix of rock and impeccably crafted pop, ‘Can’t Slow Down’ includes the first single ‘When It Comes To Love’; the emotionally charged ballad ‘I Can’t Give Up’ and the rocking title track, written by Jones, Hansen and Frederiksen as a tribute to NASCAR. Among the album’s 13 songs is ‘Too Late’, which was recorded by the band last year for the greatest hits anthology ‘No End In Sight’. Also featured is Grammy^®-winning producer Mark Ronson’s horn-driven remake of ‘Fool For You Anyway’ from Foreigner’s 1977 debut.

The new music is part of a three-disc collection that includes a disc of the band’s best-known songs remixed by Frederiksen and Anthony Focx, giving new energy to classic songs like ‘Urgent’, ‘Cold As Ice’, ‘Hot Blooded’, ‘Juke Box Hero’ and ‘Feels Like The First Time’. The final disc is a DVD that captures the band performing many of its hits live and in 5.1 surround sound, plus a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of ‘Can’t Slow Down’.

The band is consistently in the Top 20 at Classic Rock Radio. As a result of the depth of the catalogue, the band gets more airplay in this important format than Tom Petty, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, Def Leppard, U2, Bruce Springsteen, and most of their peers.

Foreigner’s ‘4’ spent more weeks on the Billboard chart at number one than any album by AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, U2, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Genesis, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, and any artist in Atlantic Record’s 60 year history

Foreigner have had nine top 10 hits and sixteen top 30 hits, and their catalogue has sold more than 70 million albums.

Their hit single ‘Waiting For A Girl Like You’ was #2 on the singles chart for a total of fourteen weeks. That was a record in the history of Billboard magazine. It helped drive Foreigner to #49 on Billboard’s Hot 100 All Time Top Artists Chart.

Foreigner’s leader and founder Mick Jones wrote or co-wrote every song, and produced or co-produced every album . He produced Billy Joel’s ‘Storm Front’ and Van Halen’s ‘5150’, the career best selling albums of both artists, and he has written songs with artists as diverse as Ozzy Osbourne and Eric Clapton with whom he wrote ‘Bad Love’. Eric received a Grammy for that one!

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