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A British-American rock band originating in TheSeventies and TheEighties, Foreigner was one of several HardRock bands (along with with groups like Music/{{Journey|Band}} and Music/SurvivorBand) that gained fame in the [[ArenaRock AOR]] scene during the early 1980s. The group's mainstays were English guitarist Mick Jones (not [[Music/TheClash that one]]) and American lead vocalist Lou Gramm, with [[RevolvingDoorBand a rotating cast of other musicians]]. Since Gramm left in 2003, Jones is the only founding member still with the group.
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A British-American rock band originating in TheSeventies and TheEighties, Foreigner was one of several HardRock bands (along with with groups like Music/{{Journey|Band}} and Music/SurvivorBand) Music/{{Survivor|Band}}) that gained fame in the [[ArenaRock AOR]] scene during the early 1980s. The group's mainstays were English guitarist Mick Jones (not [[Music/TheClash that one]]) and American lead vocalist Lou Gramm, with [[RevolvingDoorBand a rotating cast of other musicians]]. Since Gramm left in 2003, Jones is the only founding member still with the group.
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* MeaningfulName: The band was named for the fact that half of the original line-up was American and the other half British.
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* MeaningfulName: The band was named for the fact that half of the original line-up was American and the other half British. In the words of Mick Jones, "no matter what country we're in, at least half of us would be foreigners".
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* UncommonTime: "The Beat of My Heart" (from ''Inside Information'') goes 6/4 for most of the chorus, save a brief soujourn into 7/4.
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A British-American rock band originating in TheSeventies and TheEighties, Foreigner was one of several HardRock bands (along with with groups like Music/{{Journey|Band}} and Music/SurvivorBand) that gained fame in the [[ArenaRock AOR]] scene during the early 1980s. The group's mainstays were English guitarist Mick Jones (not [[Music/TheClash that one]]) and American lead vocalist [[FaceOfTheBand Lou Gramm]], Gramm, with [[RevolvingDoorBand a rotating cast of other musicians]]. Since Gramm left in 2003, Jones is the only founding member still with the group.
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* BilingualBonus: Their instrumental "Tramontane" is a close Italian variation on the group's name. [[note]] per the OED, it is used specifically for Italians who live on the northern side of the Italian Alps. [[/note]]
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* BilingualBonus: Their instrumental "Tramontane" is a close Italian variation on the group's name. [[note]] per the OED, it is used specifically for Italians who live an adjective meaning "traveling to/situated on the northern other side of a mountain". The term is most commonly used for winds blowing from the Italian Alps.Alps to the Italian west coast. [[/note]]
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* BilingualBonus: Their instrumental "Tramontane" is a close Italian variation on the group's name. [[note]] per the OED, it is used specifically for Italians who live on the northern side of the Italian Alps. [[/note]]
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* GratuitousFrench: During the fade-out of "Girl on the Moon", the background vocalists can be heard singing "Fille sur la Lune" (the literal translation of the song's title) twice.
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* GratuitousFrench: During the fade-out FadeOut of "Girl on the Moon", the background vocalists can be heard singing "Fille sur la Lune" (the literal translation of the song's title) twice.
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Red Oni Blue Oni is NRLEP. Commented out zces.
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* ArenaRock: One of the quintessential examples.
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* HotBlooded: ''Check it and see! I've got a fever of a hundred and three.''
* IceQueen: "Cold as Ice"
* {{Instrumentals}}: "Tramontane", from ''Double Vision''.
* IntercourseWithYou: "Hot Blooded", "Urgent"
* IceQueen: "Cold as Ice"
* {{Instrumentals}}: "Tramontane", from ''Double Vision''.
* IntercourseWithYou: "Hot Blooded", "Urgent"
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* LyricalColdOpen: "Say You Will".
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* RedOniBlueOni: By all accounts, Lou Gramm was Hot Blooded while Mick Jones was Cold As Ice.
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* RockStarSong: "Juke Box Hero"
* SelfTitledAlbum: Their 1977 debut.
* SelfTitledAlbum: Their 1977 debut.
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->''For the science-fiction novels, see ''Literature/{{Foreigner}}''''.
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->''For the science-fiction novels, see ''Literature/{{Foreigner}}''''.
''Literature/Foreigner1994''''.
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A British-American rock band originating in TheSeventies and TheEighties, Foreigner was one of several HardRock bands (along with with groups like Music/{{Journey}} and Music/SurvivorBand) that gained fame in the [[ArenaRock AOR]] scene during the early 1980s. The group's mainstays were English guitarist Mick Jones (not [[Music/TheClash that one]]) and American lead vocalist [[FaceOfTheBand Lou Gramm]], with [[RevolvingDoorBand a rotating cast of other musicians]]. Since Gramm left in 2003, Jones is the only founding member still with the group.
The group had its greatest success with a string of seven multi-platinum albums between 1977 and 1987, and had hit singles with songs including "Cold as Ice", "Juke Box Hero" and the ballads "I Want to Know What Love Is" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You". While members have come and gone, the band continues to tour today, often sharing the stage with fellow AOR stars such as Music/{{Journey}}, Music/{{Styx}} and Music/{{Chicago}}.
The group had its greatest success with a string of seven multi-platinum albums between 1977 and 1987, and had hit singles with songs including "Cold as Ice", "Juke Box Hero" and the ballads "I Want to Know What Love Is" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You". While members have come and gone, the band continues to tour today, often sharing the stage with fellow AOR stars such as Music/{{Journey}}, Music/{{Styx}} and Music/{{Chicago}}.
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A British-American rock band originating in TheSeventies and TheEighties, Foreigner was one of several HardRock bands (along with with groups like Music/{{Journey}} Music/{{Journey|Band}} and Music/SurvivorBand) that gained fame in the [[ArenaRock AOR]] scene during the early 1980s. The group's mainstays were English guitarist Mick Jones (not [[Music/TheClash that one]]) and American lead vocalist [[FaceOfTheBand Lou Gramm]], with [[RevolvingDoorBand a rotating cast of other musicians]]. Since Gramm left in 2003, Jones is the only founding member still with the group.
The group had its greatest success with a string of seven multi-platinum albums between 1977 and 1987, and had hit singles with songs including "Cold as Ice", "Juke Box Hero" and the ballads "I Want to Know What Love Is" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You". While members have come and gone, the band continues to tour today, often sharing the stage with fellow AOR stars such asMusic/{{Journey}}, Music/{{Journey|Band}}, Music/{{Styx}} and Music/{{Chicago}}.
The group had its greatest success with a string of seven multi-platinum albums between 1977 and 1987, and had hit singles with songs including "Cold as Ice", "Juke Box Hero" and the ballads "I Want to Know What Love Is" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You". While members have come and gone, the band continues to tour today, often sharing the stage with fellow AOR stars such as
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A British-American rock band originating in TheSeventies and TheEighties, Foreigner was one of several HardRock bands (along with with groups like Music/{{Journey}} and Music/{{Survivor|Band}}) Music/SurvivorBand) that gained fame in the [[ArenaRock AOR]] scene during the early 1980s. The group's mainstays were English guitarist Mick Jones (not [[Music/TheClash that one]]) and American lead vocalist [[FaceOfTheBand Lou Gramm]], with [[RevolvingDoorBand a rotating cast of other musicians]]. Since Gramm left in 2003, Jones is the only founding member still with the group.
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A British-American rock band originating in TheSeventies and TheEighties, Foreigner was one of several HardRock bands (along with with groups like Music/{{Journey}} and Music/{{Survivor}}) Music/{{Survivor|Band}}) that gained fame in the [[ArenaRock AOR]] scene during the early 1980s. The group's mainstays were English guitarist Mick Jones (not [[Music/TheClash that one]]) and American lead vocalist [[FaceOfTheBand Lou Gramm]], with [[RevolvingDoorBand a rotating cast of other musicians]]. Since Gramm left in 2003, Jones is the only founding member still with the group.
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A British-American rock band originating in TheSeventies and TheEighties, Foreigner was one of several HardRock bands (along with with groups like Music/{{Journey}} and Music/{{Survivor}}) that gained fame in the [[ArenaRock AOR]] scene during the early 1980s. The group's mainstays were English guitarist Mick Jones (not [[Music/TheClash that one]]) and American lead vocalist [[FaceOfTheBand Lou Gramm]], with [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters [[RevolvingDoorBand a rotating cast of other musicians]]. Since Gramm left in 2003, Jones is the only founding member still with the group.
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* ContemptibleCover: Lou Gramm said in a 2015 interview that he believed this trope was responsible for ''Head Games'' underperforming commercially compared to ''Foreigner'' and ''Double Vision''; the cover depicts a pre-''Film/{{Heathers}}'' Lisanne Falk (then aged 14) in a boys' bathroom giving the camera an embarrassed look as she wipes her phone number off the wall of one of the stalls. Though intended to be funny, the image was denounced as too overtly sexual by MoralGuardians, leading many radio stations, particularly in the American Bible Belt, to refuse to play songs from the album.
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* PunBasedTitle: Their hit album ''4'' was named after the amount of band members at the time (Gramm, Jones, Elliott, and Wills).
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* PunBasedTitle: Their hit album ''4'' was named after the amount of band members at the time (Gramm, Jones, Elliott, and Wills).Wills), as well as being their 4th studio album.
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* OdeToIntoxication: "Double Vision" is sung from the perspective of an alcoholic and/or drug addict who is unrepentant about the problems his habit causes, and asks only for someone to "fill [his] eyes with that double vision".
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Dennis Elliott spells his name with two Ts.
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* PunBasedTitle: Their hit album ''4'' was named after the amount of band members at the time (Gramm, Jones, Elliot, and Wills).
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* PunBasedTitle: Their hit album ''4'' was named after the amount of band members at the time (Gramm, Jones, Elliot, Elliott, and Wills).
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* ContemptibleCover: Lou Gramm said in a 2015 interview that he believed this trope was responsible for ''Head Games'' underperforming commercially compared to ''Foreigner'' and ''Double Vision''; the cover depicts a pre-''Film/{{Heathers}}'' Lisanne Falk (then aged 14) in a boys' bathroom giving the camera an embarrassed look as she wipes her phone number off the wall of one of the stalls. Though intended to be funny, the image was denounced as too overtly sexual by MoralGuardians, leading many radio stations, particularly in the American Bible Belt, to refuse to play songs from the album.
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[[caption-width-right:350:These "Hot Blooded" "Juke Box Hero"es are "Urgent"ly "Waiting for a Girl Like You".]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:These "Hot Blooded" "Juke Box Hero"es are "Urgent"ly "Waiting for a Girl Like You".]][[note]]Pictured: The 1976-79 lineup. L-R: Ed Gagliardi, Mick Jones, Dennis Elliott, Lou Gramm, Ian [=McDonald=], Alan Greenwood.[[/note]]]]
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* SingleMaltVision: What "Double Vision" is about: drinking until you can't see straight.
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* PunBasedTitle: Their hit album ''4'' was named after the amount of band members at the time (Gramm, Jones, Elliot, and Wills).