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Foreigner

An American rock group created in 1976 by Mick Jones, who previously played in Spooky Tooth and The Leslie West Band, and former King Crimson member Ian McDonald. Their first six albums (1977–1984) went multi-platinum and, on the whole, sold better in the USA than the records of their competitors in the hard rock world, with over 70 million copies of their albums sold in total worldwide. The collective's most famous songs are considered to be "Cold as Ice", "Feels Like the First Time", "Waiting for a Girl Like You", "Urgent", "I Want to Know What Love Is", "Say You Will", "I Don’t Want to Live Without You", and "Until the End of Time". At the dawn of their career, the band played melodic rock, which influenced the emergence of glam rock and glam metal, but later in their work the collective managed to combine such musical genres as progressive rock, R&B, and pop music, which immediately affected the band's popularity. Starting with the album Agent Provocateur, the powerful guitar riffs that prevailed in the band's musical style gave way to keyboards and synthesizers in the melodies, but despite this, the band Foreigner continued to play their beloved hard rock. Most of Foreigner's compositions were co-authored by Mick Jones and Lou Gramm, and their authorship earned great respect and success, but in the late 1980s, the band's music began to take on a purely commercial character, with songs becoming less expressive and more gloomy. The band continues to exist to this day, however, of the original lineup, only Jones remains.