FOREIGNER CELEBRATE MILESTONE 40TH ANNIVERSARY WITH CAREER-SPANNING REMASTERED HITS COLLECTION 40
DOUBLE CD OUT MAY 19, DOUBLE VINYL OUT JUNE 2
Foreigner will celebrate 40 years as one of rock’s most popular and enduring acts with a new career-spanning compilation titled 40 that features 40 hits from 40 years to coincide with their extensive 40thAnniversary world tour. Rhino will release 40 on May 19 as a double-CD that includes 40 songs recorded between 1977 and 2017. A double-vinyl version that features 23 songs will be also be released on June 2. Both versions of the album are available to pre-order now.
Following their self-titled debut in 1977, Foreigner went on to record some of rock’s most enduring anthems — Juke Box Hero and Hot Blooded — as well as the #1 smash I Want To Know What Love Is. The group has 10 multi-platinum albums to its credit and is one of the best-selling bands of all time, with worldwide sales in excess of 75 million.
40 brings together the best songs from Foreigner’s nine studio albums, including all 8 of their AustralianTop 40 hits, from Feels Like The First Time to Cold As Ice, Waiting For A Girl Like You and more. The collection features Too Late from the group’s 2008 retrospective No End In Sight and The Flame Still Burns, the title track from a vinyl EP released just last year, making its debut on CD in this collection. All prior recordings have been remastered and the album features two new tracks recorded especially for this release, Give My Life For Love and a new version of I Don’t Want To Live Without You.
The first disc covers Foreigner’s first five albums: Foreigner (1977), Double Vision (1978), Head Games (1979), 4 (1981) and Agent Provocateur (1984). The 21 tracks include some the group’s biggest hits (Urgent and Feels Like The First Time) as well as deeper cuts like Luanne and Women. The second disc features songs from Inside Information (1987), Unusual Heat (1991), Mr. Moonlight(1994) and Can’t Slow Down (2009), and features Rain, When It Comes to Love and Heart Turns To Stone.
Foreigner are Mick Jones (lead guitar), Kelly Hansen (lead vocals), Jeff Pilson (bass, vocals), Tom Gimbel (rhythm guitar, sax, vocals), Michael Bluestein (keyboards), Bruce Watson (guitar) and Chris Frazier (drums).
40 CD TRACKLISTING
Disc One
- Feels Like The First Time (Radio Edit)
- Starrider
- Cold As Ice
- Long, Long Way From Home
- Headknocker
- Hot Blooded (Radio Edit)
- Double Vision (Radio Edit)
- Blue Morning, Blue Day
- Dirty White Boy (Radio Edit)
- Head Games
- Women
- Urgent (Radio Edit)
- Juke Box Hero
- Waiting For A Girl Like You
- Night Life
- Luanne
- I Want To Know What Love Is
- That Was Yesterday
- Tooth And Nail
- Reaction To Action (Radio Edit)
- Down On Love
Disc Two
- Heart Turns To Stone
- Can’t Wait
- Lowdown And Dirty
- Soul Doctor
- White Lie
- Rain
- All I Need To Know
- Too Late
- When It Comes To Love
- Can’t Slow Down
- In Pieces
- Fool For You Anyway
- Say You Will
- Save Me
- Girl On The Moon (Live)
- Break It Up (Live)
- I Don’t Want To Live Without You – New Recording
- Give My Life For Love – New Recording
- The Flame Still Burns – Available On CD For The First Time
40 LP TRACKLISTING
Side One
- Feels Like The First Time
- Cold As Ice
- Hot Blooded
- Double Vision
- Dirty White Boy
- Head Games
Side Two
- Urgent
- Juke Box Hero
- Luanne
- Waiting For A Girl Like You
- I Want To Know What Love Is
- That Was Yesterday
Side Three
- Heart Turns To Stone
- Can’t Wait
- Soul Doctor
- Rain
- Starrider
Side Four
- When It Comes To Love
- Can’t Slow Down
- Too Late
- Say You Will
- I Don’t Want To Live Without You
- The Flame Still Burns
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