Foreigner will bring its electrifying mix of blustery blues and impeccably crafted pop-rock favorites to Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on January 9, 2013 at 8 p.m. Tickets go on sale Saturday, December 1 at 10 a.m.
With sales exceeding 70 million, recent sold-our world tours and a catalog of multi-platinum gems including “Cold As Ice,” “Juke Box Hero,” “I Want To Know What Love Is” and critically acclaimed wonders of 2009’s Can’t Slow Down, Foreigner is a band continually forging new musical peaks.
At Foreigner’s core is founder Mick Jones, the visionary maestro whose stylistic songwriting, indelible guitar hooks and multi-layered talents continue to escalate the band’s influence more than 30 years into the game. In addition to Jones, Foreigner’s dynamic lineup includes lead vocalist Kelly Hansen, bass guitarist Jeff Pilson, multi-instrumentalist Tom Gimbel, keyboardist Michael Bluestein and drummer Mark Schulman.
The original incarnation of Foreigner, formed by Jones in 1976, included fellow Brits Ian McDonald and Dennis Elliott, as well as Americans Al Greenwood, Ed Gagliardi and Lou Gramm. It was this mix of nationalities, and a feeling that music was coming from a different place, that inspired the band name.
Stoked with Jones’ song-writing mastery and Gramm’s fiery vocals, Foreigner embarked on an unprecedented course of larger-than-life rock and never looked back. Foreigner has 14 (and counting) Top 20 hits – some of them the most enduring songs in rock history – as well as 10 multi-platinum albums. Jones, who began playing guitar in his teens, is a Grammy and Golden Globe-nominated
songwriter and winner of the prestigious British Ivor Novello songwriter award.
Foreigner’s debut album produced the hits “Feels Like The First Time,” “Cold As Ice” and “Long, Long Way From Home.” The amazing Double Vision album followed, as did a string of more hits like “Urgent,” “Juke Box Hero” and “Waiting For A Girl Like You” – three songs helped give Foreigner 4 its impressive run at #1 on the Billboard chart. At the zenith of ‘80s sound, Foreigner’s fifth album, Agent Provocateur, gave the world the #1 global hit, “I Want To Know What at Love Is.” Can’t Slow Down (2009) entered the Billboard chart in the Top 30 and had great success on radio with two Top 20 singles.
The past two years have been an almost constant run of sold-out shows across Europe and the United States culminating with the release of a live album recorded in Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium that spent 13 weeks in the Billboard Top 200.
Foreigner’s latest album, 2011’s Feels Like The First Time, is a three disc set of new digital studio recordings of their greatest hits, a DVD of their nationally broadcast PBS TV special, and Acoustique, a CD featuring a fresh unplugged studio approach to some of their most memorable music.
Tickets cost $74, $64, $54 and $44*; all seats are reserved and available at all Ticketmaster outlets online at www.myhrl.com, www.ticketmaster.com or charge by phone: 1-800-745-3000. Doors open one-hour prior to show start time. *Additional fees may apply