ICON Auditioned 50 Singers for His Band…When He HEARD This ROOKIE-it was GAME OVER-Professor of Rock
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- Coming up, Lou Gramm was riding high in the 70s as his band Black Sheep had just opened for one of the biggest bands in the world. And after years of hard work and ultra tenacity they were finally going to break out. But then his world came crashing down when a car wreck destroyed all of their instruments and equipment, and their label wouldn’t front them the money to get new stuff. So they had to cancel their remaining dates. Lou Gramm was horrified, he thought his career was over but then he got a phone call from Mick Jones that changed his life. Asking him to be the lead singer of his new band Foreigner… Up next, how their composition, Feels Like the First Time became the opening shot for Foreigner, on its way to becoming a classic rock standard…giving them the chance to become one of the biggest bands ever. And many think it’s a sex song but it actually means something totally different… Next on Professor of Rock.
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I’m excited to return to another one of my favorite shows that we do on this channel. It’s called Breakthrough. In this show we breakdown songs, albums or events that kicked open the door to an artist or band’s career and gave them the momentum to rocket to long term success. Sometimes you have go through hell before you can get to heaven. That’s what happened to singer Lou Gramm who ruled the late 70s and 80s as the lead singer of the stadium rock giants Foreigner. Lou was ready to go big time with his band black sheep when tragedy struck and ripped their rock and roll dreams away from them. When he thought it was all over he got a call that would change his life. IT was Mick Jones wanting him to come auditon for his new band Foreigner… Over 50 singers Auditioned for the singer position, but Lou declined! Up next in an exclusive interview Lou tells the miraculous story as well as the Foreigner’s break through hit, the classic rock standard Feels Like the First time. Which most people have thought was about sex, but in reality CO-writer Mick Jones told me that the song was written about a bit of a change in his life, Mick told me he was coming out of a previous marriage with somebody he'd met in France.
He had just gone back to England and then finally came over to America while he was in the band Spooky Tooth. And for mick it was a challenge of going for a new start in his life and it really came out of the blue…To Mick, the song was signifying a new start. He's met somebody, he got re-married and moved with her to America, and that was the song that described that experience.” It was also a new start in a new band where he was in control of his destiny, including calling the shots, he was now the primary member and this song was the synthesis of the fresh start… and what a start it was. This song was one of four song the were on a demo tape that got Foreigner their record deal. Let’s get into the interview. - Розваги
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The fact lou wanted to stay with his band even though he got another offer tells you what kind of person he is. The fact his band mates told him to go tells you about the kind of people he was surrounded by.❤
Foreigner is the most under-rated band in rock history. . How they weren't inducted long ago is a mystery. I am glad they are finally being recognized for their artistry and genius.
Lou Gramm is, was and will always be Foriegner.
The voice of a generation, and a super classy gentleman.
He's such a rock and roll solider!
Couldn't agree more 👏
Top 3 singers of all time.
What I got from this episode is Lou Graham is a decent man,how he showed loyalty, no back stabbing to Black Sheep, and how his bandmates gave their blessings. How rare.
Congratulations to Foreigner for finally making it into the HOF. Long overdue.
I was a Foreigner fan from the first chord I heard on their record . One of my favorite all time bands
It's great to hear Lou in such good voice. I know after his brain surgery, he was really struggling. God bless him!
I know! Thank God he’s still with us.
Yes indeed, may God bless him.
Hey, Music 🎶 Junkies, here’s the TOP 3 greatest rock voices in the late 70s 80s:
1. Steve Perrry
2. Lou Gramm
3. Freddie Mercury
***so thankful Steve and Lou are still with us and Lou continues to perform and rock our 🌍!
I believe Steve Perry WASTED the finest years of his life dealing with grief,anger,hip replacement surgery and general SECLUSION.
Lou overcame a brain tumor and returned to the Rock stage and we love Lou for it!
We can’t hear you backing vocals with “The Effect” today Steve Perry.
I voted for Foreigner every day. Those who did vote know you could choose several bands to vote for each day... me? I submitted only ONE vote each day ONLY for Foreigner.
Finally!
"Juke Box Hero" is not my favorite song (regardless of bands), but when I hear that song play, it does only one thing for me... it pumps me up and gets me rockin'. How it starts slow and then works up to a crescendo, wow, power right there!
Foreigner was HUGe when I was in junior high school, and half the students wore the "Foreigner 4" t-shirt at least once a week. I can still recall looking around the classroom and seeing half the kids in their black t-shirts with the white circle around the number "4""... it was a good era that I wish I could return to and never leave.
Foreigner with Lou Gramm was unstoppable. Lou could belt it out and do it again and again on stage. He was the one to sing all of their songs. I can’t imagine losing everything to put on a show like that. I’m so glad he got another chance.
He really is so dedicated to what he does.
It's legit criminal the way record labels used to treat (and in many cases still treat) artists. Makes you sick (and PISSED) to hear the stories
It's because it's controlled and used for and by satan if you dare to believe it and understand the implications. He has used not just the rock and roll genre but others as well (not being religious just studied). In Led Zeppelins Page and Plants song "Walking Into Clarksdale" they call him (satan) "the king of commerce". They mention him as the one who met with now famed blues guitarist Robert Johnson at "The Crossroads" in Clarksdale Mississippi of legend long ago. Can you see why the labels used the artist in a slave sort of way and took advantage with promises of fame and fortune for a life of sex, drugs and you know the rest. Also of quick note look (even now) at the use of satanic imagery and antichrist glorification that the music industry tends to heap upon all who will partake and agree with that said life. Blessings.
Lou Graham one of the top ten best voices in rock and roll !! Listen to Foreigner with Lou's replacement, forgot his name,terrible replacement, but he could not hold a candle to Lou's vocals !!
Lou Gramm has the best voice in rock for me. I love his voice.
As a guy from Rochester, New York, I am so happy that foreigner finally made it to the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame. I’m personally going to be going to the induction ceremony. Hope to see you there, professor
Very cool!
.....NOW, if we could ONLY get Cortland's RJD a WORTHY place in Cleveland.....
I think I might come too!
Also born and raised in Rahchacha. That is cool that you're going to the ceremony.
Lou Gramm's voice- that is what sold the record exec's!
It's absolutely criminal that Foreigner wasn't in the HoF much earlier but, that's the HoF. It's great but it's a popularity contest joke where eligibility and a band's achievements really mean nothing. There has to be a strong outcry for a snubbed band to ever get in.
Foreigner was the soundtrack of my youth and now my middle age going into old age. I bought every album and still listen today--the music just never gets old. It perseveres against what passes for music today.
Thank you. Professor. for documenting the tales of these amazing bands so they're not lost to history.
Lou Gramm IS Foreigner!! So glad they finally were inducted in the Hall of Fame, so very long over due!! My favorites are "Jukebox Hero" & "I Want To Know What Love Is"! 🤠
SO good!
Two awesome songs!!!
Jukebox Hero is my favorite.
I'm glad Foreigner is finally getting into the Hall Of Fame-They should've gotten in sooner.
Check out headknocker and the rest of album one
In the early 80s you could not listen andnot hear Foreigner or Journey.Love both bandsI had tickets to see Foreigner in the early 90s in Norfolk Virginia.Something came up at the last minute and could not go to the concert.I always regret not seeing them.
Thank god for Lou’s tenacity! If he had quit the music industry after his first road block we wouldn’t have the genius that is Foreigner!
So true. What a trying time!
...or if the band he was in didn't push him to join Foreigner. They could have been glad he turned down the offer.
He’s just so determined!
Foreigner is a true example of pure rock, not metal, but in this instance metal is not necessary or even wanted. Great band!!
Good call.
He does not have to be a metal singer to blow us away!
Late 70s/early 80s. I'm driving a mustard yellow 1976 Dodge Aspen 225 slant 6 with 6x9 Pyle speakers, a Sony head unit, and a Pioneer amp. Foreigner and Boston are in heavy rotation on my mix cassettes. Those Pyles took a beating, and you could fry an egg on the Pioneer amp when I had Foreigner cranked up to 11! This music, especially the voices of Lou Gramm and Brad Delp kept me sane during those years. We certainly grew up with some great music! Thanks for these great interviews, Professor.
Aussies ditched the slant 6 for the Aussie built Hemi 6 in 1969. Far better engine.
My first car was a 1973 Dodge pickup with the slant 6. Bulletproof motor.
Lou is arguably the most famous musician to come out of Rochester. Yet he's one of the most down-to-earth people you could ever encounter.
Foreigner with Lou Gramm is my favorite band of all time. Saw them in 1981 (that makes me feel old...LOL! 😏). So glad they're finally in the RRHOF!! 🎉❤
That was so cool of Lou's band the Black Sheep to tell him he was crazy not to join Foreigner when he was going to stay loyal to them! Congratulations on RRHoF I voted through this channel's link. Love Lou's interviews he is always so open and honest. Great episode!
Lou is the man!
I voted too. Every day. I made sure they were getting in.
How many of us, out there, wanted to be a "Juke Box Hero"? So many of us, including me, first saw on the TV some band (Chuck Berry) and wanted to become like them.
"First Time" was a great hit, but "Juke Box Hero", to many, was what brought us all to love them. WE too "didn't have a ticket, to (the) sold out show".
Now discovering that Lou Gramm really was telling a true story about himself, and then one day opening for the band that started his journey is extra special.
Adam, what always impresses me is that folks like Lou enjoy talking with you. You get them to share stories like Lou's, and they love doing it, over and over. You are, after all, THE Professor of Rock. Great video. ;-)
Jukebox Hero is my favorite Foreigner song.
I wanted to be a juke box hero right along with you brother!!!
I was 7 years old when the first album came out, i listened over and over to it, especially long long way from home. I wore that album out.
Oh Lou, Lou, Lou...love you!! I am so glad Mick saw what we all see in you...an amazing vocalist!! "Feels like the first time" a true gem!! Thrilled you have finally made it to the R&R Hall of Fame! Long overdue and so deserving!! Thank you again Professor!! ❤
The AWESOME Lou Gramm and Foreigner. I am very happy that they made the Rock Hall. This is a great song too love it.
My first concert was foreigner and Joe Walsh at pine knob in Detroit. I was blown away! That concert prompted me to pick up the guitar and eventually start my own band. Good times.
"Feels Like The First Time" is one of their absolute best songs, and probably my favorite from the 70's. I especially love the bridge, with the neat keyboard notes & the reverb/slight delay in his vocal. Pretty amazing sounding. 💯
Yes it is!
That bridge is awesome.
When a show has over 1 million people watching, you can make a difference to that kind of injustice. I am glad they are now in. Love so many of those songs. They bring out their feelings and yours. As always great information from the show.
THanks Paul!
I heard Lou Gramm, solo in concert around 2006. He was great. The 2000's was a good era for 70's and 80's acts at festivals. Dennis DeYoung, Marty Balin, Roger Hodgson, Sammy Hagar...I was happy just to hear these voices from my youth, even without their original bands.
Tell Lou the 50,000 fans would like an autograph, lol. I never voted before I voted for Pat Benatar then now Lou.
Great news about Foreigner making it, FINALLY!, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They earned this a long long time ago. #myjukeboxheroes
"Feels Like The First Time" is a great song. One of Foreigner's best. From the late 70's through the first half of the 80's, Foreigner was one of the big 4 arena rock bands along with Journey, Styx, and REO Speedwagon. Thanks to all of our participation in voting, I'm proud to say that Foreigner are now Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees. It was long overdue.
Agree with everything you said. How they were not inducted sooner and why it took years for the Professor to get to a million followers is still puzzles me.
LOOOOOOONG overdue!
Finally they got in! They should have already been in.
It’s about time they got into the Hall of Fame!
I remember the first time I heard
Feels like the First Time, I was on my way to rehearsal in my first band and I immediately wanted to learn it. The album had just come out, and it’s still one of my favorites.
Juke box hero might be the greatest fan Rock n Roll song ever . The song describes all of us when we were young and we rocked to our favorite song in our bedroom and basement . Foreigner should’ve been inducted years ago
"Cold As Ice" is a masterpiece IMHO - phenomenal musicianship & playing
My father loved CCR in the 60s and early 70s but when Foreigner came out my dad loved them. I remember as a kid my dad pulling out the album tha had a juke box on it then dropped the needle and turn up the volume. The stereo had red green and blue lights that would flash along with the music. Great times. My dad passed away in 2020 but i can put on Foreigner and instantly travel back in time and it is wonderful. Great video, i wish they still made good music like this.
Mick Jones was a huge influence on my guitar playing as a kid at 7 yrs old. His tone and riffage was what really spoke to me and that was it for me, i had to sound like Mick.
One of my top bands and Lou Gramm is one of my favorite singers....so many favorite songs...so happy they're in the R&RHF!
Lou Gramm, Steve Perry, Ann Wilson, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston… I could go on and on. Just incredible singers. And the music genres and musicianship created crossovers galore in the mid 70s through the 80s. Truly amazing time for this Gen X’er to grow up. It was a convergence that I doubt will happen again, and that is a shame.
Foreigner is that band where those who don't know music really well wonder "oh I like this this song, who sings it?' from songs of the late 70s/early 80s. It's probably them.
True.
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Love it. My boys want to call you about the vids you sent!
Foreigner's music was a big part of the soundtrack of my life being that it was played by the local radio stations daily & of course I had an album plus cassette tapes for the car plus they were still making music. It was a great time to be alive being born in 71 I got to hear a lot of great music throughout the decades.
The first Foreigner album is a stone cold classic. A heady mix of rock , prog ( thanks to King Crimson's Ian McDonald and Spooky Tooth's Mick Jones ) and pop. And it's about time to the Toffee Nosed Grand Poobahs at the Rn R Hall Of Fall finally saw the light and inducted this great band !
No question!
It was released during my junior year of high school and I was blown away when my friend plopped the cassette into the tape deck of his VW Beetle when we were cruising around town one night. Several songs into it I just had to know the name of the band because I loved what I was hearing. To this day they're still my all-time favorite band and their self-titled debut album is my favorite album from any artist. During my senior year my girlfriend (now wife of forty years) and I literally wore the grooves out of it since it was often on a constant loop on my dad's Girard turntable most Friday and Saturday nights. Around twenty years ago I was able to get Mick and Lou's autographs on the debut and 4 album covers when I was backstage. They're framed and hanging in my garage along with a number of Foreigner and other artists concert posters.
Haha, love it! I’m glad they’re in now!
Way overdue to be in the Hall Of Fame. Congratulations. I voted everyday for them.
They deserve the Hall of Fame for sure...it is really cool and good to know that 50K of the voting for them came via this community...Adam you are using this platform in a way that is educational, entertaining, archival, and important...it's got to feel good knowing your hard work is paying off in a very real and compelling way!!! Keep up the good work!
I'm sure Mick was excited when he heard Lou in Black Sheep. I love those two Black Sheep albums, great guitar and vocals.
What a spectacular debut album! Every song is great! That record brings back so many wonderful memories for me!
Funny thing professor, I was just listening to "Jukebox Hero", before coming on here. Discovered Foreigner at about the same time as Boston and Styx. So thrilled that the hall of fame finally recognized them. Now, let's get Boston and Styx, in the hall too.
Awesome! I agree. Boston and Styx next!
One of the most played cassettes I played in my first ride, my 58 Apache stepside. I still love Foreigner 45 years later. Thanks for all of your work capturing an iconic time in rock history
Life long fan, always will.
This is some great rock here. Foreigner is one of the best ever. Really sang and played music.
PoR, you should have put this out a few days ago, on Lou Gramm's birthday. What a great lead singer. The 70s were loaded with some of the best vocalists ever, and Gramm was certainly one of them. Foreigner hit the airwaves when I was in the upper grades of grade school, and if you didn't grow up then, you really can't understand how big they were. I read an article by some hack who said they were the least deserving of this past year's nominees for the Rock Hall. I had them tied with Ozzy for #1, with Peter Frampton a close second (all three are finally in, and it's long overdue!). I know Lou Gramm had health issues, issues that lead to a thyroid problem (something I am all too familiar with) but he got through it and we're glad he did! Great vid on a song that helped launch them into the rock scene.
Good point! Happy 74th birthday to Lou!
One of my all-time favorite bands, and one of the few Rock bands that I’ve actually seen in concert, and a GREAT memory for me. I saw Foreigner in Hartford, CT, in 1985, during their Agent Provocateur Tour. Unfortunately, Joe Walsh opened for them and gave an absolutely horrible performance. Once he was off the stage, though, I was ecstatic, and Foreigner was FANTASTIC!! I’d love to relive THAT memory!!❤❤❤
Finally in rock and roll hall of fame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Foreigner was my favorite band from the 80’s. They said screw the music trends that were happening and came in and rocked the house. It was one of the few real bands that registered with me and most of my friends. It was hot and fresh music and we fell in love. There was finally something besides “new wave” and “grunge” on the air.
He later life is inspiring as well. Much respect.
I have both Black Sheep albums. They were a very good band that got a raw deal.
Lou Gramm told me at a book signing that Klaus, Voormann, the Beatles buddy and artist for the album revolver was one of the people slated to be a bass player for foreigner
Wow, that’s really cool!
Originally from Syracuse NY Lou was a huge part of Rochester and the Eastern NY area. I'm so happy Foreigner finally got into the HOF
Lou Gramm was born in Rochester NY..and grew up nearby in Gates NY..that area is in western New York State.
Lou was born in Rochester NY and grew up nearby in Gates NY..both towns are in western New York State.
What an absolutely great band! Love Foreigner!! ❤😊🤘🏻🎵🎸🎙
Congrats to Foreigner. Love you guys.
Lou had always been my fave rock vocalist, such passionate powerful voice. Top 5 Goat vocalist for me. Good guy too, and didn't have a smidgen of haughtiness whatsoever.
I could listen to you and Lou Graham talk for hours. Great interview.
Great video! Great Story! I Remember foreigner from junior high, and everyone who liked Foreigner seemed like they were a stoner. I remember in jr. high kids wearing their Foreigner T-shirt to school the day after the concert, and those kids were all stoners. That's a memory of Foreigner from the 70's. But my favorite Foreigner memory is one that was told to me by a friend, about a friend or acquaintance of his that sang backup vocals for Foreigner, and this young man saved his money from singing with Foreigner and became a Mormon missionary. I was told story that nearly 40 years ago. My friend moved away, he's an ER doctor in Montana and it's probably been 15 years since we've touched bases, but I've always wanted to corroborate that story with him about his friend, I need to do that! I recall there were lots of drugs involved on the tour. But whenever I hear Foreigner, I think about them paying the way for some young man to pay for him becoming a missionary. You know that song, Don't mess with a missionary man! 😂
Great video, thanks Professor! So happy for Lou! He's right up there with Steve Perry imosho!
One of my all time favorite vocalists. Foreigner stole my heart when I was 13 and heard “Long, long way from home”. It’s been an amazing career for Lou and for Mick.
I am glad to know the true meaning of this song. Good interview.
I am glad our votes made a difference. 😊
Indeed they did! Great job!
I don't think I ever thought if it as being sexual......
Yes! I voted every day! Our vote counts.
"Feels Like the First Time" is one of my all-time favorites! They are one of the greats!
Lou Gramm One of the Top 5 ROCK Vocals EVER!!!! Remember when h 0:00 e became BORN-AGAIN about the time I became born -Again....Always loved his voice....grew up with the best bands.
OMG Adam, i was just on the street and a car was blaring this song. Not lying. BTW, i always thought it was a s23x song.😅😅😅😅 Love the song and the band.
My 2nd favorite band! Juke box hero is still amazing today as it ever was!
I like only the early Foreigner when
they were a six piece band and had
a hard rock sound to them.👍👍
🎵🎶🎼🎤🎸🎸🎸🎹🥁🎼🎶🎵
Amen!
We risk it all....for Rock n Roll ✊🏼
We love you Professor ❤
Wow, thanks
I was introduced toForeigner’s music through their 80s ballads, but their rockers are as good as anybody’s. A great all-around band and a much deserved honor to be in the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame, although they’ve always been in the Hall of Fame of our hearts.
Foreigner along with The Cars are the soundtrack to my youth 😎🎸🎶
Such great years!
You must be my age if that's true...I'm 62.....I would have to add the Police to your list..lol
Good friends to encourage Lou to go to the audition.
Indeed!
Foreinger 4 was the album that did it for me. So many great songs in their repertoire! Congrats on the pending Hall of Fame induction! Also, congrats to Adam and crew for POR reaching 1M subs! 🏆
I literally grew up on the self titled Foreigner and 4 records. I was that kid who would grab a tennis racket and jam Jukebox Hero like I was playing with them! Still one of my favorite bands!
It is about time they are still awesome!
It was wonderful that you gave us the heads up on the vote for the Hall of Fame.
I had not heard any where else about the
vote or that Foreigner was not even in there yet. I mean if Paul McCartney didn't know how are the average people to know.
Thanks Professor for keeping all up to date.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌹
For Mr.Gramm to have had such a terrible stroke of luck with "Black Sheep" , the Mick Jones phone call changed his ( and their) lives. What a great band they were, I'll never forget the first time I heard them on the radio and bought the album on the way home from work.
Great interview, great upload, as always !!
It's always a high point in my day to see your upload.....PS- SUPER Congratulations on your 1 million subs, you damn well deserve it(and many, many more!!)
Thanks for all YOUR help in getting Foreigner into the hall!!
Your interviews with Lou Gramm are great.
Being inducted into the Rock & Roll HOF, is well deserved for Foriegner!
Lou is Foreigner, yes its Mick's baby, but it is identified by Lou and his voice.
I am so glad that Foreginer is finally in the hall of shame... i mean fame. They've deserved it for a long time. I was a sophomore in high school when "Waiting for a Girl Like You" came out. That song became part of the soundtrack to my high school years. That song still takes me back and reminds me of a few girls from high school now 40 years later. In my head I always wanted to sing that song to one of those girls but never got the nerve or the opportunity. Such a great time for music an dmeaning. Congrats again on hitting 1 million Professor.
My two years younger cousin and I used to hang out in his room and listen to Foreigner albums when we were barely teens. I just turned 60 this year, and he and have talked multiple times over the years how we used to listen to records back then and Foreigner was the group that we both agreed on their music being great. We have very different tastes in music these days, me being pretty picky about what music I like, while he loves all types of music. I never really liked being in big crowds, nor did I have the money to buy tickets for concerts, but he literally LOVES any size of concert or live music venue. He told me two years ago he was trying to read his record for how many live concerts he attended in a year. He was planning to see 50 concerts that year. Unfortunately, a couple concerts were cancelled and although he added more, he only made 49 gigs that year. Lol
❤🎉
Foreigner!
Lou Gramm was the only American member of the original group.
Well deserved and long overdue that Foreigner is finally inducted into the RRHOF.
Thanks Professor!
Bass player Ed Gagliardi and Key board player Al Greenwood were Americans.
Thanks Roger!
Perhaps his ancestors are from Europe, technically making them all European, hee hee.
In 1975 I turned up the radio for Foreigner. Donna Summer and KC & The Sunshine Band, not so much!
@@raphaelszok8561Agree 100%.
Congrats to Foreigner on their HOF induction. Great song and great interview. 👍
By the way, that story of Lou’s about him sneaking off to the Stones concert is hilarious. Obviously his dad didn’t kill him, but I hope he didn’t punish him too much. Also, I have family in Rochester and I’ve been there many times. I can hear the accent 😊
August 27th 1977 I saw Foreigner (Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon...) at Anaheim Stadium. At this time I had already purchased their debut
album (8-track). Love Gramm's vocals.
Good call!
Great big congratulations on achieving One Million Subscribers!!❤❤
Should have happened long ago, but a definite congratulations to you Prof!!
Thanks!
Lou is awesome. Best voice, super cool guy 🤘🏻
"Feels Like The First Time" (of course along with a multitude of others) was as monumental as any first hear song of that time could ever be. It stands at the pinnacle with some but very few songs like "More Than A Feeling" and Lou as the top tier vocalist right there in the small group of about 4 maybe 5 other singers that would not be debatable as the best of the best. And yes there is no "Foreigner" without the vocals, blood, sweat and tears of Lou Gramm. I'm so glad he's become a Christian now as well. Just love the voice and the soundtrack he's helped write on our lives over the years gone bye. What a classic and classy guy he is. He knows what love is.... just ask him.
Foreigner in the HOF, and the Professor over 1 million subs.... Life is finally starting to make sense
I've always thought it was weird that songs had to be short because I've always liked the extended versions of songs. Many of the short three minute songs disappointed me because I didn't want them to end too soon.
I know what you mean!
Maybe the radio guys didn’t want one song to take up too much listening time because they had announcements to give!
I never thought it was about sex, more about falling in love in such an amazing way that it made earlier "loves" pale by comparison and the thought that any future "love" will never compare ("like it never will again, never again"). I had one such and lost it and later realized it wasn't real and he was not who I thought he was. I still don't think I will ever feel that totally amazing way about another person ever again. Yeah, it made me a bit of a cynic, but I still love this song and the passion with which Lou sings it.
My favorite Foreigner song (among many that I like) and is an absolute staple in the Rock Canon..... and my playlist.
THanks!