But it was with Foreigner that he came of age as a songwriter and leading figure. Foreigner’s first album was launched at an opportune time. While punk rock was big news in 1977, the year’s ...
“I love the song, but it pigeonholed us into something that we were not,” he told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “I knew that influenced [bandleader] Mick [Jones] enough that you could find a soft, ...
The first rehearsal of Foreigner was Mick Jones, myself, Stan Williams on drums and Jay Davis on bass, just the four of us. We'd come in and jam every day and this would go on for a while.