Ex-Foreigner singer Lou Gramm added to Boston/Styx show
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:04 pmEx-Foreigner singer Lou Gramm added to Boston show
During his first stint, Lou Gramm was the literal “voice of Foreigner” on a string of top-selling hits, including “Feels Like the First Time,” “Hot Blooded,” “Dirty White Boy,” “Juke Box Hero,” “Cold As Ice,” “Urgent” and “Waiting for a Girl Like You.”
Friday, April 25, 2008 3:52 PM CDT
By Dan Craft
dcraft@pantagraph.com
BLOOMINGTON -- The U.S. Cellular Coliseum’s big classic rock summer showcase — Boston on July 20 — just got a little more classical.
Newly added to the bill as the concert’s opening act is one of ‘70s-‘80s rock’s most distinctive voices: original Foreigner lead singer Lou Gramm.
The addition of Gramm coincided with the start of ticket sales for the 7 p.m. show on Friday. | Buy discounted tickets through Pantagraph.com
Tickets are priced from $34.50 to $54.50, and are available at (866) 891-9992, as well as on-line at www.uscellularcoliseum.com.
Interestingly, Gramm’s Coliseum appearance will come almost a year to the month after his old band played the venue as part of another classic rock double-header: the summer 2007 show pairing Styx and Foreigner.
Patrons at that June 24 concert heard Gramm’s current successor, Kelly Hanson, who joined Foreigner after Gramm quit the band for the second time in his career, in 2003.
During his first stint, Gramm was the literal “voice of Foreigner” on a string of top-selling hits, including “Feels Like the First Time,” “Hot Blooded,” “Dirty White Boy,” “Juke Box Hero,” “Cold As Ice,” “Urgent” and “Waiting for a Girl Like You.”
All told, he performed on 20 Top 40 singles from 1976 through the early ‘80s. The band itself folded in the late ‘80s.
Both Gramm and group co-founder Mick Jones went onto solo careers before Jones reformed Foreigner in 1990, with a new lead singer on board, Johnny Edwards.
Gramm rejoined in 1992 and stayed in place another decade.
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During his first stint, Lou Gramm was the literal “voice of Foreigner” on a string of top-selling hits, including “Feels Like the First Time,” “Hot Blooded,” “Dirty White Boy,” “Juke Box Hero,” “Cold As Ice,” “Urgent” and “Waiting for a Girl Like You.”
Friday, April 25, 2008 3:52 PM CDT
By Dan Craft
dcraft@pantagraph.com
BLOOMINGTON -- The U.S. Cellular Coliseum’s big classic rock summer showcase — Boston on July 20 — just got a little more classical.
Newly added to the bill as the concert’s opening act is one of ‘70s-‘80s rock’s most distinctive voices: original Foreigner lead singer Lou Gramm.
The addition of Gramm coincided with the start of ticket sales for the 7 p.m. show on Friday. | Buy discounted tickets through Pantagraph.com
Tickets are priced from $34.50 to $54.50, and are available at (866) 891-9992, as well as on-line at www.uscellularcoliseum.com.
Interestingly, Gramm’s Coliseum appearance will come almost a year to the month after his old band played the venue as part of another classic rock double-header: the summer 2007 show pairing Styx and Foreigner.
Patrons at that June 24 concert heard Gramm’s current successor, Kelly Hanson, who joined Foreigner after Gramm quit the band for the second time in his career, in 2003.
During his first stint, Gramm was the literal “voice of Foreigner” on a string of top-selling hits, including “Feels Like the First Time,” “Hot Blooded,” “Dirty White Boy,” “Juke Box Hero,” “Cold As Ice,” “Urgent” and “Waiting for a Girl Like You.”
All told, he performed on 20 Top 40 singles from 1976 through the early ‘80s. The band itself folded in the late ‘80s.
Both Gramm and group co-founder Mick Jones went onto solo careers before Jones reformed Foreigner in 1990, with a new lead singer on board, Johnny Edwards.
Gramm rejoined in 1992 and stayed in place another decade.
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008 ... 098848.txt