One of the sounds I especially remember from the latter part of the Seventies was the British-American band Foreigner, with hits like “Cold As Ice”, “Double Vision” and “Head Games”.
These were soon followed in the early Eighties by more hits, such as “Urgent”, “Waiting For A Girl Like You”, “Juke Box Hero” and “I Want To Know What Love Is”.
Here’s “Cold As Ice”, from their first album, “Foreigner”:
In the pub I worked in as a student in Palmerston North, New Zealand, during the late Seventies, the house band used to play the title track of Foreigner’s second album: “Double Vision”.
I worked in the “quieter” lounge bar (the “Armada Bar)”, but I remember going into the corridor to get ice from the ice machine, and hearing it pulsating at full volume from the “loud” and bigger “Viking Bar”.
This is the studio version of “Double Vision”:
The album was soon followed by “Head Games”:
Turning into the Eighties, the album “4” contained a number of hits, including “Urgent”:
And here’s a live version of “Urgent”:
Also on that album was “Waiting For A Girl Like You”:
A song with a similar sound fromn the later album “Agent Provocateur”(1984) was “I Want To Know What Love Is”:
And to close with a bit of power, here’s another track from “4”, the “Juke Box Hero”, live of course:
Keep on rockin’!
Paul