Artist: FOREIGNER
Album: 4 REMASTERED (CD US-IMPORT)

Year: 1981/ 2002
EAN/UPS: 0081227827526
Media type: CD

4, also known as Foreigner 4, is the fourth album by American rock band Foreigner, released in 1981. Several singles from the album were successful, including "Urgent", "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "Juke Box Hero".

The album marked the completion of the band's shift to hard rock, begun in Head Games. Half of the original lineup - Ian McDonald, Al Greenwood, and Ed Gagliardi - had left before the recording of 4. As a result, all of the songs on the album are compositions by Mick Jones and/or Lou Gramm. McDonald and Greenwood had played saxophone and keyboards, respectively, and so several session musicians were needed to replace their contributions, among them Junior Walker, whose sax solo in the bridge of "Urgent" is a high point of the album, and a young Thomas Dolby, who would later have a successful solo career.

All songs written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, except where noted.

TRACKLIST:

"Night Life" – 3:11
"Juke Box Hero" – 4:29
"Break It Up" (Jones) – 3:48
"Waiting for a Girl Like You" – 4:11
"Luanne" – 3:48
"Urgent" (Jones) – 4:51
"I'm Gonna Win" (Jones) – 4:18
"Woman in Black" (Jones) – 4:42
"Girl on the Moon" – 3:49
"Don't Let Go" – 4:49

"Juke Box Hero" [nearly unplugged version]* – 3:06
"Waiting for a Girl Like You" [nearly unplugged version]* – 2:50
* bonus tracks on 2002 re-issue

LINE-UP:

Dennis Elliott - drums, vocals, background vocals
Lou Gramm - Lead vocals, percussion
Mick Jones - guitar, keyboard, vocals, background vocals
Rick Wills - bass, background vocals

Additional personnel:

Thomas Dolby - synthesizer
Larry Fast - sequential synthesizer on track 2
Michael Fonfara - keyboard
Robert John "Mutt" Lange - background vocals
Bob Mayo - keyboard textures on track 4
Hugh McCracken - guitar
Mark Rivera - saxophone, background vocals
Junior Walker - saxophone solo on track 6
Ian Lloyd - background vocals