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Foreigner Announces Farewell Tour For 2023

After 45 years, Foreigner is planning to tour…for the very last time. In an interview with Billboard, 77 year-old Mick Jones said “Foreigner is a completely revitalized band with a…

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After 45 years, Foreigner is planning to tour...for the very last time.

In an interview with Billboard, 77 year-old Mick Jones said “Foreigner is a completely revitalized band with a whole new energy that has won the hearts of our fans all over the world, and I want to go out while the band is still at the top of its game. I had the idea that was to become Foreigner back in 1974, and I was 30 years old at the time. By the end of our farewell tour, over 50 years will have passed, and that’s a long time to be on the road.”

Since 1976, Foreigner has released 9 studio albums and sold more than 50 million records worldwide. It’s also had 9 top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including  “Feels Like the First Time,” “Hot Blooded,” “Double Vision,” “Urgent” & the #1 “I Want to Know What Love Is.”

Leader and founder of FOREIGNER, Mick Jones said, “Many years ago, I wrote a song called ‘Feels Like The First Time’ and today we are launching one last worldwide tour.  We will be presenting a show that I know will have the same enthusiasm as our very first appearances.  The tour will start this summer in America and we hope to get to every place that we have played over the last several years.  While I’m sure our fans will have mixed feelings about the end of the road for the band, I know our shows are going to delight audiences everywhere.”

Says FOREIGNER lead singer Kelly Hansen, "The time has come. We have more or less lived our lives on the road for almost eighteen years.  We have always strived to give you our best and we intend to finish this the same way. Foreigner has a brilliant and increasingly demanding catalogue of songs to sing and I refuse to give them less than they deserve. So, we’re going to finish strong. I want to make it very clear how grateful and appreciative we are to our audiences all over the world who have supported this band.  I’m sure there may be occasions when we’ll do some special appearances, but I think the time is coming for us to live off the road. Thank you all so much!”

The tour will kick off July 6 in Alpharetta, Ga., with the final of 32 dates right here in New Jersey at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on Sept. 3rd. Loverboy will be opening. Tickets on sale at LiveNation.com and for more info, visit ForeignerOnline.com

FOREIGNER will continue its long-term initiative with the GRAMMY Museum Foundation to invite choirs to open the show with a live a cappella ‘Pitch Perfect’ performance of Classic Rock songs. FOREIGNER will join radio partners across the country to create a contest for local choirs to win donations to their music programs. One winning choir will be selected at each show, and that choir will receive a grand prize of new musical equipment.

These 40 albums that turn 45 in 2022 feature timeless debuts and some of the most iconic titles in rock.

Scroll through the gallery below to see which albums are turning 45 in 2022..

Fleetwood Mac - ‘Rumours’

fleetwood-mac_rumors_Warner-Bros.jpgWarner Bros.

Released on February 4, 1977.


Sex Pistols - ‘Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols’

sex-pistols_Warner-Bros.jpgWarner Bros.

Released on October 28, 1977


David Bowie - ‘Low’

Bowie_RCA.jpgRCA

Released on January 14, 1977.


Television - ‘Marquee Moon’

television_Elektra.jpgElektra

Released on February 8, 1977.


Steely Dan - ‘Aja’

steely-dan_ABC-Records.jpgABC Records

Released on September 23, 1977.


Elvis Costello - ‘My Aim Is True’

elvis-costello_Columbia.jpgColumbia

Released on July 22, 1977.


David Bowie - ‘“Heroes”’

Bowie_Heroes_RCA.jpgRCA

Released on October 14, 1977.


Iggy Pop - ‘Lust for Life’

iggy-pop_RCA.jpgRCA

Released on September 9, 1977.


Lynyrd Skynyrd - ‘Street Survivors’

skynyrd_MCA.jpgMCA

Released on October 17, 1977.


Pink Floyd - ‘Animals’

Pink-Floyd_Animals_Harvest.jpgHarvest

Released on January 21, 1977


Ramones - ‘Rocket to Russia’

Ramones_Sire.jpgSire

Released on November 4, 1977.


Talking Heads - ‘Talking Heads: 77’

talking-heads_Sire.jpgSire

Released on September 16, 1977.


Bob Marley and the Wailers - ‘Exodus’

Marley_Island.jpgIsland

Released on June 3, 1977.


Jackson Browne - ‘Running on Empty’

jackson_Asylum.jpgAsylum

Released on December 6, 1977.


Cheap Trick - ‘In Color’

Cheap-Trick_Epic.jpgEpic

Released in September 1977.


Meat Loaf - ‘Bat Out of Hell’

Meat-Loaf_Epic.jpgEpic

Released on October 21, 1977.


Kraftwerk - ‘Trans-Europe Express’

Kraftwerk_Kling-Klang.jpgKling Klang

Released in March 1977.


Ramones - ‘Leave Home’

ramones-leave-home_Sire.jpgSire

Released on January 10, 1977.


Rush - ‘A Farewell to Kings’

rush_Anthem.jpgAnthem

Released on September 1, 1977.


Electric Light Orchestra - ‘Out of the Blue’

elo_CBS.jpgCBS

Released on October 3, 1977.


Billy Joel - ‘The Stranger’

billy-joel_Columbia.jpgColumbia

Released on September 29, 1977.


The Clash - ‘The Clash’

Clash_Sony.jpgSony

Released on April 8, 1977.


Ted Nugent - ‘Cat Scratch Fever’

ted-nugent_epic.jpgEpic

Released on May 13, 1977.


Steve Miller Band - ‘Book of Dreams’

steve-miller-book_Capitol.jpgCapitol

Released in May 1977.


Queen - ‘News of the World’

queen_news_UMG.jpgUMG

Released on October 28, 1977.


Thin Lizzy - ‘Bad Reputation’

thin-lizzy_Mercury.jpgMercury

Released on September 2, 1977.


AC/DC - ‘Let There Be Rock’

acdc_atlantic.jpgAtlantic

Released on March 21, 1977.


Jethro Tull - ‘Songs from the Wood’

jethro-tull_Chrysalis.jpgChrysalis

Released on February 11, 1977.


The Runaways - ‘Queens of Noise’

runaways_Mercury.jpgMercury

Released in January 1977.


Sammy Hagar - ‘Sammy Hagar’

sammy-hagar_Capitol.jpgCapitol

Released in January 1977.


Cheap Trick - ‘Cheap Trick’

Cheap-trick-debut_Epic.jpgEpic

Released on February 3, 1977.


Foreigner - ‘Foreigner’

foreigner_Atlantic.jpgAtlantic

Released on March 8, 1977.


Kansas - ‘Point of Know Return’

kansas_Epic.jpgEpic

Released on October 11, 1977.


Heart - ‘Little Queen’

Heart_Sony.jpgSony

Released on May 14, 1977.


Styx - ‘The Grand Illusion’

Styx_AM.jpgA&M

Released on July 7, 1977.


KISS - ‘Love Gun’

KISS_Love-Gun_UMG.jpgUMG

Released on June 30, 1977.


Yes - ‘Going for the One’

yes_going-for-the-one_Atlantic.jpgAtlantic

Released on July 15, 1977.


Neil Young - ‘American Stars ‘n Bars’

Neil-Young_stars_Reprise.jpgReprise

Released on June 13, 1977.


Eric Clapton - ‘Slowhand’

eric-clapton_RSO.jpgRSO

Released on November 25, 1977.


Richard Hell - ‘Blank Generation’

richard-hell_Sire.jpgSire

Released in September 1977.


Aerosmith - ‘Draw the Line’

Aerosmith_draw_Columbia.jpgColumbia

Released on December 9, 1977,

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