Foreigner: Unruffled by Platinum Pressure

SPEAKING QUIETLY over the hum of a transoceanic phone connection. Foreigner's Mick Jones doesn't seem the least bit threatened by the musical and mercantile similarities I point up between his group and another phenomenon, Boston. "It's funny you mentioning Boston," says the veteran English songwriter/arranger/guitarist. "When their album came out we were well into making ours, and I thought, 'Is there going to be room for somebody else to do something like they did?' It was a bit of a strange feeling, because I was very confident of our thing, but I didn't know whether two phenomenons like that could happen "