![]() Jones, the only remaining original member of FOREIGNER, suffered from some health issues beginning in 2011, eventually resulting in heart surgery in 2012. He told the Democrat & Chronicle in 2018 that he was planning to retire, but still reunited with FOREIGNER for several shows that year.įOREIGNER replaced Gramm with Hansen in 2005. The 72-year-old Gramm left FOREIGNER for good in 2002 and has battled health issues in recent years, including the removal of a non-cancerous tumor. Gramm was the voice on FOREIGNER's biggest hits, including "Feels Like The First Time" and "Cold As Ice" from the band's eponymous debut in 1977, and later songs like "Hot Blooded" and "I Want to Know What Love Is". Most of the time FOREIGNER has no original FOREIGNER members in it." And I heard that he comes out for one song now - when he comes on. He had some heart problems and his recovery time was very long and tedious. But then he was in the hospital again for weeks. he would play the whole last half of the set. I think when the new FOREIGNER plays, I've heard that he comes on for one song and then waves and goes offstage. Two original members of the six are now gone. ![]() Well, Ian has passed away and Ed Gagliardi passed away, even though he wasn't part of the reunions. Pressed about whether it is "over now" for him and FOREIGNER, Lou said: "I think so, yeah. At the end of the song, the last song hit, and there wasn't a quarter of a second of space before he was yapping away to the audience… It was, like, 'Jeez, will you quiet down for a minute?'" After a song ended, I couldn't even get a word to thank the audience or tell 'em that I was happy to be part of the reunion. But let his own influences show - show the fans that he's the new singer now, not me."Īsked what it was like to share the stage with Hansen and other members of the current and original FOREIGNER lineup in 20 to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary, Lou said: "It was okay. "I don't think he should sing the songs verbatim like me," Lou added. "You're a singer with a big band like that - use your voice and your style. "Some people say, 'Well, take it as a compliment, Lou.' I don't take it as a compliment," Gramm continued. His voice doesn't sound like me, but he's singing the songs the way I would sing them. ![]() But I think Mick really told Kelly, when he first got in the band, that he had to study me, because he sings those songs with the same musical innuendos and vocal licks and ad-libs as I have. ![]() " Kelly is all right," Lou said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). In a new interview with John Beaudin of, original FOREIGNER singer Lou Gramm was asked what he thinks of the band's current frontman, Kelly Hansen, who has been in the group for nearly two decades. ![]()
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