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Foreigner: The Forum, Inglewood CA

Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 4 March 1982

FOREIGNER HAS managed to transcend the clichés of the much-vilified heavy metal rock form. Their Forum show was a powerful, direct lesson in how to avoid the pretensions of the style and produce rock music in a tradition that owes more to Chuck Berry than to Black Sabbath.

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