Foreigner Box Set Surprised Fans With A Career Song-Filled Collection

The Foreigner Box Set is to be released this October from Rhino Records.

Foreigner was formed in New York City in 1976 by guitarist Mick Jones, vocalist Lou Gramm, drummer Dennis Elliott, keyboardist Al Greenwood, bassist Ed Gagliardi, and multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald.

In 1977, Foreigner released its self-titled debut album, the first of six consecutive albums (including the 7x platinum 1982 greatest hits album Records). The album produced two US Top 10 singles, "Feels Like the First Time" and "Cold as Ice."

Their 1978 follow-up, Double Vision, was even more successful and included two more US hits, "Hot Blooded" and the title track. Rick Wills replaced Gagliardi on bass before Foreigner recorded their third album, Head Games, in 1979. This album included the US Top 20 singles "Dirty White Boy" and the title track.

Foreigner, one of the most successful bands in music history, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on October 19. In celebration of this much overdue honor, the band will release a career-spanning box set collection that includes “Turning Back The Time,” a new song featuring original members Mick Jones and Lou Gramm.

The set is scheduled to be released on October 4. Rhino Records presents Turning Back The Time on 2-LP and CD.

Pre-Order HERE. The music will also be available from digital and streaming platforms on the same day.

The band has hit after hit and has sold millions of records. However, original singer Lou Gramm says the group has essentially been shunned from the Rock Hall.

Gramm detailed this in an appearance on Good Day Rochester. He said that guitarist Mick Jones and Rock Hall co-founder Jann Wenner were once close friends.

Lots of other 70s and 80s acts with far less were getting in, so a meeting was set up between Jones, Wenner, and Foreigner’s manager. This meeting was scheduled to see what Foreigner did or didn’t do to be ignored by the Rock Hall.

Gramm said, “[The meeting] got real heated, and when our manager and Mick got up to leave, [Wenner] said, ‘It’ll be a cold day in hell before Foreigner gets into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.”

Fate finally, Wenner was voted out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation board.

A lot of fans were caught off guard by something extra. Timed to the group’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction on Oct. 19, an unreleased song, “Turning Back the Time,” appears on a new 18-song, best-of compilation of the same name that releases Oct. 4 via Rhino.

 The new single “Turning Back The Time” debuts today. Listen HERE.

A number of songs that Lou Gramm and Mick Jones wrote together are now being released—just in time for the box set.

WCSX will present Bret Michaels’ “Parti-Gras 2.0” performance at Pine Knob Music Theatre on Friday, August 23 at 7 p.m.

Michaels hit the stage with unbelievable energy and was then joined by Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame nominated Lou Gramm with Don Felder, Dee Snider, Chris Janson, and more.

It will be a rock and roll night you will never forget, with the crew of WCSX broadcasting live from Pine Knob. Tickets are still available.

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