WCSX Classic Cuts : Dirty White Boy
WCSX Classic Cuts Foreigner: “Dirty White Boy” The Hook: Singer Lou Gramm calls it “total attitude.” Album: Head Games Year: 1975 Writers: Lou Gramm and Mick Jones Stats: Peaked at…
Promotional studio portrait of American rock group Foreigner, 1977. (L-R): Lou Gramm, Ian McDonald, Al Greenwood, Mick Jones, Dennis Elliot. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Foreigner: "Dirty White Boy"
The Hook: Singer Lou Gramm calls it "total attitude."
Album: Head Games
Year: 1975
Writers: Lou Gramm and Mick Jones
Stats: Peaked at number-12 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Background: "Dirty White Boy" was the first single from Foreigner's third album, Head Games. Singer Lou Gramm explains what he and Mick Jones were going for when they wrote it.
Former Foreigner singer Lou Gramm on “Dirty White Boy.” OC:…White Boy. :19
“I think that was basically a reaction song. It’s a totally juvenile, ‘I don’t wanna grow up, up yours’ song. It’s just a lashing out at any- and everything. It’s total attitude from guitars to vocal screams to anything. It’s just ‘Dirty White Boy.’”
