"Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon came up to me and said, 'I hear we're in the running for the prize for spending the most time and money in a studio!'": The epic story of Foreigner 4, the AOR masterpiece that helped shape 80s rock
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"Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon came up to me and said, 'I hear we're in the running for the prize for spending the most time and money in a studio!'": The epic story of Foreigner 4, the AOR masterpiece that helped shape 80s rock
Along with Journey, Anglo-American superstars Foreigner defined early 80s AOR music thanks to 1981’s mega-selling 4 album. In 2011, the band looked back on the making of a classic. Six months into the endless, ever-expanding time frame that was the making of Foreigner’s fourth album, producer Robert John ‘Mutt’ Lange decided he needed a break. Looking up from the mixing desk in Electric Lady Studio, located at 52 West 8th Street in New York’s Gr…
Foreigner joined a short and distinguished list of legendary bands whose fourth albums became their emblematic albums, such as Led Zeppelin and Toto, when they released "4" on July 2, 1981. When it came time to start working on "4", guitarist Mick Jones and Atlantic got the services of producer "Mutt" Lange. He had just come out of his unprecedented success behind AC/DC's "Back in Black" and was famous for being a "hand to the play" guy. "[Mutt]…
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