Former FOREIGNER Singer LOU GRAMM Planning Private EP Release – “There’s No Place To Go With An Album These Days”

Speaking with Songfacts’ Greg Prato, Lou Gramm, “The Voice Of Foreigner”, discusses plans for an upcoming EP release.

“I’ve got a number of songs written. I think at some point towards the end of the fall, just for the sake of having a little fun and doing something, we might privately release an EP. I honestly think that for groups of our ilk, there’s no place to go with an album these days.”

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If you listen to classic rock radio on a daily basis, you’d be hard-pressed to go a full day without hearing the distinctive and powerful vocals of Lou Gramm blasting through your speakers. As the voice of Foreigner, one of rock’s most popular and successful bands, Lou can be heard on every single one of the band’s classic hits, which includes sixteen Top 30 songs and nine Top 10’s over the years. For those into chart success, that’s one less than the Eagles and the same as Fleetwood Mac.

Here are the Top 10’s: “I Want To Know What Love Is”, “Waiting For A Girl Like You”, “Double Vision”, “Hot Blooded”, “Urgent”, “Feels Like The First Time”, “I Don’t Want To Live Without You”, “Say You Will” and “Cold As Ice”. You know them well. And let’s not forget “Head Games”, the rock anthem “Juke Box Hero” and other rockers such as “Dirty White Boy”, “That Was Yesterday”, “Blue Morning, Blue Day,” “Long Long Way From Home” and “Break It Up” that cracked the Top 30.

By 1980, Foreigner’s first eight singles (from their first three albums, Foreigner, Double Vision and Head Games) entered the Billboard Top 20 charts, making them the first band to achieve that feat since the Beatles.                  

Lou and his band – currently comprised of brother Ben Grammatico on drums, Michael Staertow on guitar, AD Zimmer on bass and Andy Knoll on keyboards – have the following live dates scheduled.

August
22 – Castle Rock Freedom Fest Fundraiser for American Soldier Network – Castle Rock, CO
28 – Beacon Theatre – Hopewell, VA
29 – DeKalb Corn Festival – DeKalb, IL

September
2 – Minnesota State Fair – St. Paul, MN
12 – Clovis Music Festival – Clovis, NM
26 – State Fair of Oklahoma Main Stage – Oklahoma City, OK

October
9 – Gordie Brown Showroom at the Golden Nugget – Las Vegas, NV

November
7 – Meyer Theatre – Green Bay, WI

December
12 – Socorro Entertainment Center – El Paso, TX