In a brand new interview with Joe Rock of the WBAB radio station, former FOREIGNER singer Lou Gramm was requested if the beforehand unreleased songs he co-wrote with FOREIGNER founder Mick Jones will ever see the sunshine of day. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I might be shocked in the event that they ever noticed the sunshine of day. And I am hoping they do not see the sunshine of day with another person singing them, which is all the time a risk, I believe.

“These are some actually very, superb concepts,” he continued. “Mick and I have been actually on the identical degree at that time, similar web page. And our writing relationship was locked in. And I believe these track concepts are a number of the finest issues we have ever written collectively.”

As for who has a duplicate of the songs that he labored on with Mick, Lou stated: “I spoke to FOREIGNER‘s supervisor, and he talked about to me that Mick could not discover his copy of the track concepts. So I informed him I had two and I despatched him one in every of mine. Properly, the opposite one which I believed was my copy was one thing fully totally different. So now Mick has the copy of the songs, and I do not. And I requested the supervisor if he may make me a duplicate, and he stated, ‘We’ll see.’ So it is finished an entire turnaround the place I gave Mick my copy and now I haven’t got a duplicate of the songs. They usually’re clearly not keen to present me one. I had the one copy and I used to be keen and did ship Mick a duplicate. Now I am unable to get a duplicate once I want one.”

He added: “It does not need to be like that in any case these years of working collectively. And if these songs are ever gonna see the sunshine of day with me concerned, I must have a duplicate, do not you assume?”

In keeping with Gramm, the unreleased FOREIGNER songs are “not that far-off from being finished. I imagine there’s eight or 9 songs,” he revealed. “And you can launch an album with eight or 9 songs; they do not need to be 10 or 11 songs. They simply want a little bit sprucing up. And I believe they’re nearly prepared. And I believe, relying on what label it was launched on and if the promotion was good, I believe it may very well be an enormous document.”

Again in January 2020, Jones informed WBAB that placing out the beforehand unreleased FOREIGNER songs he labored on with Gramm was only a matter of time. “We simply have not had the time to sit down down and hearken to them collectively,” he stated on the time. “It is hopefully gonna occur sooner or later. And within the meantime, [we’re] simply sitting tight ready for that chance to come up.”

Gramm was the voice on FOREIGNER‘s largest hits, together with “Feels Like The First Time” and “Chilly As Ice” from the band’s eponymous debut in 1977, and later songs like “Sizzling Blooded” and “I Wish to Know What Love Is”.

The 73-year-old Gramm left FOREIGNER for good in 2002 and has battled well being points lately, together with the removing of a non-cancerous tumor. He informed the Democrat & Chronicle in 2018 that he was planning to retire, however nonetheless reunited with FOREIGNER for a number of exhibits that 12 months to rejoice the band’s fortieth anniversary.

FOREIGNER changed Gramm with Kelly Hansen in 2005. Jones, the one remaining authentic member of FOREIGNER, suffered from some well being points starting in 2011, ultimately leading to coronary heart surgical procedure in 2012.

Gramm and Jones‘s June 2013 efficiency of “I Need To Know What Love Is” and “Juke Field Hero” on the Songwriters Corridor Of Fame in New York Metropolis marked the primary time the pair carried out collectively in a decade after Gramm left FOREIGNER for a second time. Hansen has fronted the group for the previous 18 years.

FOREIGNER‘s final album, “Cannot Gradual Down”, was the one full-length assortment of latest songs to have been launched by the band since Hansen took over vocals. The album entered the Billboard High 30, pushed by the radio singles “In Items” and “When It Comes To Love”. The band additionally has launched a sequence of dwell albums and compilations, together with 2016’s “In Live performance: Unplugged” and 2017’s “40”.