4 (Foreigner album)
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Foreigner

  • Lou Gramm
    Lou Gramm
    Lou Gramm is an American rock vocalist and songwriter best known for his role as the lead vocalist and co-writer of many of the songs for the rock band Foreigner. He also had a successful solo career...

     – Lead vocal, percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Mick Jones
    Mick Jones (Foreigner)
    Michael Leslie "Mick" Jones is an English guitarist, songwriter, and record producer best known as the founding member of the rock band Foreigner.-Life and career:...

     – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , background vocal
  • Rick Wills
    Rick Wills
    Rick Wills , is a British bass player. He is best known for his work with rock band Foreigner and his associations with the Small Faces and Bad Company.-Career:...

     – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , background vocal
  • Dennis Elliott
    Dennis Elliott
    Dennis Leslie Eliott is most famous as the drummer who played for Foreigner from 1976 to 1992. In later years he became a professional sculptor.-Life and careers:...

     – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

    , background vocal

Additional personnel

  • Hugh McCracken
    Hugh McCracken
    Hugh McCracken is a rhythm guitar player and session musician, arranger and producer based in New York.Especially in demand in the 60s, 70s and 80s, he appears on many recordings by Steely Dan, as well as albums by Donald Fagen, Jimmy Rushing, Billy Joel, Roland Kirk, Roberta Flack, B. B...

     – slide guitar on track 9
  • Tom Dolby
    Thomas Dolby
    Thomas Dolby is an English musician and producer. Best known for his 1982 hit "She Blinded Me with Science", and 1984 single "Hyperactive!", he has also worked extensively in production and as a session musician.-Early life:Dolby was born in London, England, contrary to information in early 1980s...

     – main synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

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  • Larry Fast
    Larry Fast
    Lawrence Roger 'Larry' Fast is a synthesizer expert and composer. He is best known for Synergy, his 1975–1987 series of synthesizer music albums, and for his contribution to a number of popular music acts, including Peter Gabriel, Foreigner, and Hall and Oates.- Biography :Fast grew up in...

     – sequential synthesizer on tracks 2, 3 & 10
  • Michael Fonfara
    Michael Fonfara
    Michael Fonfara is a keyboard player who is most notable for his work with the bands The Electric Flag and Rhinoceros in the 1960s, Lou Reed in the 1970s and The Downchild Blues Band, from 1990 to the present.- History :Fonfara's career as a professional musician commenced in 1963, when he started...

     – keyboard textures on tracks 6 & 9
  • Bob Mayo
    Bob Mayo
    Bob "Bobby" Mayo was a session keyboardist and guitarist, perhaps best known for his work with Peter Frampton....

     – keyboard textures on track 4
  • Mark Rivera
    Mark Rivera
    Mark Rivera is a musician, musical director and corporate entertainment provider. In addition to playing soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, Rivera's musical talents encompass vocals, guitar, percussion and keyboards.-Education:...

     – saxophone
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

     on tracks 6 (except solo) & 3, background vocals
  • Junior Walker – saxophone solo on track 6
  • Ian Lloyd – background vocals
  • Robert John "Mutt" Lange – background vocals

Production

  • Produced By Robert John "Mutt" Lange & Mick Jones
  • Recorded & Engineered By Dave Wittman (Chief Engineer) & Tony Platt (basic tracks)
  • Second Engineer: Brad Samuelsohn
  • Assistant Engineers: Edwin Hobgood & Michel Sauvage
  • Mastered By George Marino

Certifications

Charts

Album – Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1981 Pop Albums 1


Singles – Billboard (North America)
Year Single Chart Position
1981 "Juke Box Hero
Juke Box Hero
"Juke Box Hero" is a song by Foreigner and was the third single released from their 1981 album 4. It first entered the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in July 1981. It subsequently went to #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts after released in February 1982.The song focuses on a...

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Mainstream Rock 3
1981 "Night Life" Mainstream Rock 14
1981 "Urgent" Club Play Singles 32
1981 "Urgent" Mainstream Rock 1
1981 "Urgent" Pop Singles 4
1981 "Waiting for a Girl Like You
Waiting for a Girl Like You
"Waiting for a Girl like You" is a song by British-American rock band Foreigner. The distinctive synthesizer theme was performed by the then-unknown Thomas Dolby.-Chart performance:...

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Adult Contemporary 5
1981 "Waiting for a Girl Like You" Mainstream Rock 1
1981 "Waiting for a Girl Like You" Pop Singles 2
1982 "Break It Up" Pop Singles 26
1982 "Juke Box Hero" Pop Singles 26
1982 "Luanne" Pop Singles 75
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