Genres: Hard Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Arena Rock, Album Rock Active: 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1976 in New York, NY
Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Yardbirds, The Who, Spooky Tooth, The Rolling Stones, Jo Jo Gunne, Pink Floyd, Bad Company, Humble Pie, The Guess Who, Grand Funk Railroad, Free, Deep Purple, Cream, Mott the Hoople Heart, Survivor, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Loverboy, Damn Yankees, Night Ranger, Styx, Bad Company, The Babys, Journey, Toto, Def Leppard, Chicago, Cheap Trick, Bon Jovi, AC/DC, Meat Loaf, Pat Benatar |  |
While quite a few arena rock acts of the '70s found the transformation into the '80s quite difficult, several acts continued to flourish and enjoyed some of their biggest commercial success: Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, and especially Foreigner. Foreigner's leader from the beginning has been British guitarist Mick Jones, who first broke into the music biz as a "hired gun" of sorts, appearing on recordings by George Harrison and Peter Frampton, and as part of a later-day version of hard rockers Spooky Tooth. By the mid-'70s, Jones had relocated to New York City, where he was a brief member of the Leslie West Band and served as an A&R man for a record company. But it wasn't long before Jones felt the urge to be part of another rock outfit as he sought to put together a band that would be able to combine elements of rock, progressive, R&B, and pop into a single, cohesive style.
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Release: 2009
Label: Atlantic
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Release: June 16, 2009
Label: Eagle Vision
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