FOREIGNER LEAD SINGER DIES CRACKED

Īlso in 1987, Gramm contributed the song ' Lost in the Shadows' to the soundtrack for the comedy horror film The Lost Boys.Ī second solo effort, Long Hard Look (October 1989), that included the top ten hit ' Just Between You and Me' as well as ' True Blue Love', reached the Top 40. The single ' Midnight Blue' reached the top five. Gramm released his first solo album, Ready or Not, in January 1987 to critical acclaim. The band released Inside Information in 1987. Foreigner's next album, Agent Provocateur (1984), took three years to release due to the ongoing creative differences between Jones and Gramm. Gramm has called the 4 album (1981) the high point of his work with Foreigner. Gramm wanted the band to remain true to its purer rock origins, favoring music with a solid drum and guitar structure, whereas Jones embraced the 1980s style of synthesizer ballads.

Gramm and Jones had a volatile chemistry. He co-wrote most of the band's songs, including the hit ballads ' Waiting for a Girl Like You', which spent ten weeks at #2 on the 1981/82 American Hot 100, and ' I Want to Know What Love Is', which was a number one hit in eight countries. Gramm performed vocals on all of Foreigner's hits including ' Urgent', ' Juke Box Hero', ' Break It Up', ' Say You Will', and ' I Don't Want to Live Without You'.

FOREIGNER LEAD SINGER DIES CRACKED

1980s Lou Gramm performing with Foreigner on November 25, 1979įoreigner's first eight singles cracked the Billboard Top 20, making them the first band since The Beatles to achieve this milestone. With Foreigner, Gramm became one of the most successful rock vocalists of the late 1970s and 1980s. The band, which was initially known as 'Trigger,' was later renamed 'Foreigner'. Gramm traveled to New York to audition and got the job. It was early in 1976, not long after Black Sheep's truck accident, when Jones, in search of a lead singer for a new band he was assembling, expressed his interest in Gramm and invited him to audition. Jones was in Rochester New York performing with the band Spooky Tooth, and Gramm had given Jones a copy of Black Sheep's first album ( S/T). Ī year earlier, Gramm met his future bandmate Mick Jones. Unable to support its albums with live performances, Black Sheep disbanded. They were the opening act for Kiss when an accident with their equipment truck on the ice-covered New York State Thruway suddenly ended the band's tour on Christmas Eve, 1975. Soon after this initial bit of success, Black Sheep signed with Capitol Records, releasing two albums in succession: Black Sheep (1975) and Encouraging Words (late 1975). Black Sheep was the first American band signed to the Chrysalis label, which released their first single, 'Stick Around' (1974). Gramm became front man for the band Black Sheep. He attended Gates-Chili High School in Rochester, graduating with the class of 1968, and majored in education and art at Monroe Community College. Gramm was born on, in Rochester, New York, the son of Nikki (born Masetta), a singer, and Bennie Grammatico, a band leader and trumpeter.

He is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Foreigner from 1977 to 1990 and again from 1992 to 2003, during which time the band had numerous successful albums and singles. Louis Andrew Grammatico (born ), known professionally as Lou Gramm, is an American singer and songwriter.

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