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Rock & Roll Prowess Heralds Foreigner

Toby Goldstein, Circus, 9 June 1977

THE STAGGERING success of Foreigner's debut Atlantic LP and single, 'Feels Like the First Time', proves that the world has been waiting for yet another throbbing rhythmic band, with lucid keyboard manoeuvres and swelling harmonies to sweeten the mix. Foreigner, envolved and produced by Anglos Mick Jones and Ian McDonald, fulfill an American-based craving to steal some glory from the punches of the Led Zeppelin-Bad Company-Purple school.

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