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Three in the Morning: How Mick Jones’s Sleepless Night Gave Foreigner Its Only Number One
Three in the Morning: How Mick Jones’s Sleepless Night Gave Foreigner Its Only Number One It was three in the morning, sometime in 1984, in the studio of Mick Jones’s Kensington apartment. The rest of London was asleep. The phone had finally stopped ringing. And the guitarist of Foreigner — one of the biggest rock…
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Foreigner: The Lives Behind the Arena Anthems
The songs are precision-engineered for arenas: “Cold as Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” “Urgent,” “Juke Box Hero.” But the men who made them lived lives far messier and more moving than any power chord could capture. Behind Foreigner’s gleaming hits stand two very different human stories — a singer whose faith carried him through a brain tumor…
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How Foreigner Created “Juke Box Hero”: A Kid in the Rain and a Dream in the Wings
Every rock anthem has an origin story. Most of them are embellished in the retelling. But the true story of Foreigner’s “Juke Box Hero” is better than any embellishment — because it happened twice: once to a kid standing in the rain in Cincinnati, and once, years earlier, to Mick Jones himself, standing in the…
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The Untold Story of Foreigner: Six Strangers, a Midnight Sax Solo, and the Ballad That Wouldn’t Die
Foreigner sold more than 80 million records with a formula that should not have worked: three Brits and three Americans who could barely agree on anything except the hooks. Behind the gleaming arena-rock anthems lay a band nearly destroyed by ego, illness, and one singer’s 19-hour brain surgery — a band whose biggest ballad was…