Alan Greenwood is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 musician who was a founding member and keyboardist

Keyboardist

A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

 of the rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band, Foreigner

Foreigner (band)

Foreigner is a British-American rock band, originally formed in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm...

 from 1976 to 1980. He performed on the albums Foreigner (1977), Double Vision (1978) and Head Games

Head Games

Head Games is the third studio album by Anglo American rock band Foreigner, released in 1979. The album charted at #5 on the Billboard 200 chart, and has sold over five million copies in the US alone. It is perhaps as famous for its album cover, depicting a worried young woman in a men's...

(1979).

In 1981, he formed the band Spys with former Foreigner bass player

Bassist

A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

 Ed Gagliardi

Ed Gagliardi

Edward John 'Ed' Gagliardi was the original bass player for the '70s rock band Foreigner. He was in Foreigner from the beginning in 1977. Gagliardi was on the albums Foreigner and Double Vision, but he was replaced by Rick Wills in 1978...

, John Blanco, John Digaudio and Billy Milne

Billy Milne

William "Billy" Milne DCM was a Scottish footballer who played for Arsenal, before becoming a long-standing member of the club's backroom staff....

 and recorded the albums Spys (1982) and Behind Enemy Lines (1983).

Greenwood would go on to play keyboards on one-time Rainbow

Rainbow (band)

Rainbow were an English rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up...

 frontman Joe Lynn Turner

Joe Lynn Turner

Joe Lynn Turner , is an American rock singer, known for his works with Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, Deep Purple. From the late 1990s, he continued to perform in a large number of solo albums and other studio projects...

's 1985

1985 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.-January–March:*January 1 - The newest music video channel, VH-1, debuts on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV...

 debut solo album, Rescue You

Rescue You

Rescue You is the first solo album of Joe Lynn Turner, formally of Rainbow and Fandango. This album is a collection of AOR and radio friendly pop tracks for the rock heyday of the mid-80's.There was a single and video release of the song, "Endlessly"....

.