Foreigner Urgent 1981 Extended Meow Mix

The piano driven Cold As Ice came out just in time for summer vacation of 1977 and introduced me to Foreigner and I ran out and picked up the 8 Track tape for my 1975 Ford Maverick and I rocked that summer away working at McDonald s. The following year, Double Vision came out and then Head Games in 1979. 1981 brought me the tour de force of 4 and I burned through three copies of the vinyl LP. Urgent and Waiting For A Girl Like You were everywhere and the new aggressive synthesized sounds of Foreigner became entrenched in my psyche and I wanted more Foreigner came together in 1976 New York City when two British expatriate musicians Ian McDonald and Mick Jones began to make their vision a reality. Keyboardist Al Greenwood was brought on board along with vocalist Ian Lloyd (The voice on the Stories, 1 hit tune Brother Louie ). Jones felt that Lloyd wasn t quite what he heard in his head and continued his search. Ian McDonald was a multiinstrumentalist who had worked with prog rock band King Crimso