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Mick Jones: Foreigner - The Best of 4 & More’, is now available as an instant download



The opening track "Night Life", from FOREIGNER’s hotly anticipated live album ‘The Best of 4 & More’, is now available as an instant download when you pre-order the album digitally. The pre-order links are below. ‘The Best of 4 & More’ will be released in Europe on Friday 5th December with release in the UK on Monday 8th December.

General download link: http://geni.us/ForeignerBestof4 / Amazon link: http://geni.us/ForeignerBestof4Amazon / iTunes link: http://geni.us/ForeignerBestof4iTunes

"Night Life" is the live album opening track: a timeless rock song delivered with passion and urgency, and recorded live at the Borgata Hotel’s Music Box theatre in Atlantic City in October 2014. Originally released in 1981, Foreigner ‘4’ spent more weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts than any artist in the history of Atlantic Records, including AC/DC, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, and went on to sell more than 9 million albums worldwide. Hits included Juke Box Hero, Urgent and Waiting For A Girl Like You - all of which are present on The Best of Foreigner 4 & More.

“It’s great to be in a group with people who really get it, and understand how fortunate we are to be playing and performing such great material,” enthused vocalist Kelly Hansen, while band founder Mick Jones added, “Our music has touched a lot of people worldwide ― unwittingly, we’ve weaved our music into the fabric of people’s lives.”

The album can also be pre-ordered from Pledge Music, which offers vinyl, limited edition posters and remake t-shirts from Foreigner’s 1981-1982 tour packages. The Best of 4 And More will be also be released on vinyl by Soulfood Music on January 23rd 2015. Visit the official FORIEGNER UK album press page HERE.

Mick Jones: Foreigner are set to release a new high-definition live recording from their most successful album of all time, Foreigner ‘4’.



Foreigner are set to release a new high-definition live recording from their most successful album of all time, Foreigner ‘4’. Universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable arsenal of hit songs, Foreigner continue to propel sold-out tours and album chart action around the world. Now, Frontiers Music Srl presents a homage to Foreigner’s most successful album ever with "The Best of Foreigner 4 & More". The live album will be released on 5th December 2014.

Foreigner ‘4’ spent more weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts than any artist in the history of Atlantic Records, including AC/DC, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, and went on to sell more than 9 million albums worldwide. Fans will see why it"Feels Like The First Time" when Foreigner debuts these new recordings of the best of Foreigner ‘4’ along with several other chart hits. Foreigner recorded these live high-definition versions of their most enduring anthems at the Borgata Hotel’s Music Box theatre in Atlantic City on October 3rd and 4th, 2014. The album includes some of rock’s best-known hits including Feels Like The First Time, Cold As Ice, Hot Blooded and Foreigner’s iconic ballad, I Want To Know What Love Is.

"Our music has touched a lot of people worldwide" says Foreigner founder, lead guitarist, Mick Jones. Also serving as executive producer of the new album, this Songwriters Hall Of Fame member wrote or co-wrote every Foreigner song and continues to lead his band to new heights. Mick continues: "Unwittingly, we've weaved our music into the fabric of people's lives."

"The Best of Foreigner 4 & More" is available now for pre-orders via Pledge Music through this link: www.pledgemusic.com/projects/foreigner in CD, vinyl, limited edition posters and remake t-shirts from their 1981-1982 tour. As an exclusive for the German territory, the album will also be available in a special box packaging adding a cap to the CD.

To read the official UK press announcement and download album artwork and hi res photos, click here – www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/frontiersrecords/best-of-foreigner.htm.



Tracklist
1. Night Life
2. Woman In Black
3. Urgent
4. Waiting For A Girl Like You
5. Break It Up
6. Girl On The Moon
7. Say You Will
8. Feels Like The First Time
9. Cold As Ice
10. Hot Blooded
11. I Want To Know What Love Is
12. Juke Box Hero

Mick Jones: An Evening With Foreigner: Unplugged UK tour dates



In addition to the UK tour, which starts on Thursday April 3rd at the Manchester O2 Apollo, FOREIGNER will also perform a special acoustic concert - "An Evening With Foreigner: Unplugged" atLondon’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Saturday April 12th. A Q&A session with the band, hosted by Team Rock’s Kylie Olsson, will also take place at the concert with fans invited to submit questions.

Read the official UK press announcement which includes a brand new photo of FOREIGNER by clicking HERE.

FOREIGNER APRIL 2014 UK TOUR DATES:

· Thursday 3rd April - Manchester O2 Apollo
· Friday 4th April - Newcastle City Hall ***SOLD OUT***
· Saturday 5th April - Glasgow Clyde
· Monday 7th April - Nottingham Royal Centre
· Tuesday 8th April - Sheffield City Hall
· Wednesday 9th April - Portsmouth Guildhall
· Friday 11th April - Bristol Colston Hall ***SOLD OUT***
· Saturday 12th April - O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire (An Evening with Foreigner Unplugged)
· Sunday 13th April - London Hammersmith Apollo
· Tuesday 15th April - Wolverhampton Civic Hall

Tickets for Foreigner’s UK tour with EUROPE and FM are priced £38.50 regionally and £39.50 in London and are available from www.livenation.co.uk or www.ticketmaster.co.uk.

Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is (Acoustic )

Mick Jones, Jeff Pilson, Doug Aldrich: Valentines day - I Want To Know What Love Is – The Ballads

Just in time for Valentine’s Day earMUSIC releases "I Want To Know What Love Is – The Ballads", 14 tracks previously never released on one album of  FOREIGNER's  best and most timeless ballads. Embracing over thirty years of award-winning creativity, "I Want To Know What Love Is – The Ballads" will be released in the UK on Monday February 3rd in two different editions: as a standard jewel case, and as a 2CD Special Edition-digipak.

Featuring "I Want To Know What Love Is" originally released on 1984’s multi platinum album Agent Provocateur, the forthcoming album also includes thirteen songs including classic hits such as "Waiting For A Girl Like You","Long, Long Way From Home" from 1977’s self-titled debut album, as well as some modern masterpieces of their most recent albums Can’t Slow Down from 2010 and Acoustique from 2011, all of which are state-of-the-art new recordings featuring FOREIGNER lead singer Kelly Hansen.

The Special Edition release is a must-have for all the die-hard FOREIGNER fans. Produced by noted Foreigner bass guitarist, Jeff Pilson, in December 2013, the bonus disc contains previously unreleased performances of all the hits and fan favourites, recorded from an acoustic show for the German radio station SWR1 in July 2013.

The album precedes FOREIGNER’S April 2014 UK Tour with special guests EUROPE and FM, which kicks off Thursday April 3rd at Manchester o2 Apollo, followed by dates in NewcastleGlasgowNottinghamSheffieldPortsmouth,Bristol, London and Wolverhampton.  Tickets can be booked from Live Nation and Ticketmaster.  FOREIGNER will also play two Irish dates with special guests FM at Dublin Olympia (March 31) and Belfast Waterfront Hall Auditorium (April 1).

For further info, album artwork and hi res photos http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/foreigner/theballads.htm .  For details for further info about FOREIGNER’S April 2014 UK tour dates. http://www.noblepr.co.uk/Press_Releases/foreigner/tour.htm

Mick Jones,John Norum: Foreigner, Europe and FM announce UK tour dates and VIP tickets

FOREIGNER with special guests EUROPE and FM will appear onstage together for the first time ever taking in nine dates across the UK throughout April 2014.  The nine date UK tour kicks off on Thursday 3rd April at the O2 Apollo Manchester.  “I’m thrilled to be coming back home to England and touring with Europe and FM,” says Foreigner’s founding British member and lead guitarist, Mick Jones. “We’re looking forward to having a great time.”
A special 02 ticket presale begins at 9am Wednesday 14th August A special Planet Rock and Live Nation presale will begin at 9am Thursday 15th August.  Tickets will go on general sale from 9am, Friday 16th August at www.livenation.co.uk  and www.ticketmaster.co.uk with official Meet & Greet VIP packages available from www.vipnation.co.uk
FOREIGNER, one of the biggest rock bands of all time, are internationally renowned for creating some of the most iconic songs in rock music. With ten multi-platinum albums and sixteen Top 30 hits, Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, now exceeding 75 million. Responsible for some of rock & roll’s most enduring anthems including “Cold As Ice,” “Juke Box Hero,” “Feels Like The First Time,” “Urgent,” “Head Games,” “Waiting For A Girl Like You,” “Say You Will,” “Dirty White Boy,” “Long, Long Way From Home,” and the worldwide #1 hit, ”I Want To Know What Love Is,” Foreigner continues to rock the charts more than thirty years into the game.
Special guests are the legendary, multi million selling, Swedish hard rock band EUROPE. Hot off the heels of a Spanish tour with Def Leppard and Whitesnake, Europe have made nothing short of a remarkable comeback with their last four studio albums, “Start From The Dark, “Secret Society, "Last Look At Eden" and their ninth and most critically acclaimed studio album “Bag Of Bones." Europe will perform songs from their last four albums, plus classics including “Rock The Night,” “Superstitious,” “Carrie,” “Prisoners In Paradise” and their worldwide No. 1 rock anthem “The Final Countdown.
Special guests FM will be opening the concerts on the upcoming UK tour.  Earlier this year, FM released two critically-acclaimed albums “Rockville” and companion album, “Rockville II.