Foreigner: An Unreleased Track From 1996 With Mick Jones And Lou Gramm
The next one October 19that Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, will be held the 39th induction ceremony of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame which for 2024 will celebrate the entrance into the “Olympus of rock”, in the main category dedicated to performers, of Ozzy Osbourne, Mary J. Blige, Dear, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & The GangAnd A Tribe Called Quest.
To celebrate their induction into the Hall of Fame, Foreigner have announced for the October 19th the release of the collection “Turning back time“, which – as can be read on social media – retraces the entire career of the band originally from New York (here is the story). Along with the announcement, the group also shared an unreleased track as a preview.
This is a track dating back to 1996 and was created by Foreigner featuring both Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, co-written with Marty Frederiksen. As explained in an interview with the US edition of “Billboard”, Gramm and Jones recently reworked the song, with the same title as the collection “Turning back the time”, for the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and said: “The feeling of the song has revealed itself to us now more than everand with the upcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we thought now was the perfect time to let the world hear it.”
Formed in 1976 and thus eligible for induction into the Hall of Fame since 2002, Foreigner have long been ignored by the institution. As reported by the US edition of “Rolling Stone” – this year the producer Mark Ronsonwhose stepfather is none other than Mick Jones, He joined forces on social media with Dave Grohl, Slash, Jack Black, Chad Smith and Josh Homme to support the band’s induction into the R&R Hall of Fame.
