Ep 812 : Lou Gramm of Foreigner

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Dean Delray

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today one of the greatest hard rock vocalist and songwriters ever Lou Gramm of Foreigner joins me for a long in-depth conversation of his amazing career.

Lou Gramm and Mick Jones together wrote some of the best hard rock songs of the 70's and 80's that are dominating the FM dial still to this day.

Lou sits down with me today to talk about the early days of the band, songwriting with Mick and working with Mutt Lange on the Foreigner 4.

4 will be getting a huge box set treatment and will be released Sept 12th 2025.

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0:00.0	upcoming tour dates august 14 15 16 punchline sacramento springfield missouri blue room august 22 23
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0:26.1	all this year.
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0:30.8	Come out and support live comedy.
0:32.3	And also, join my Patreon for over 180 bonus episodes of Letterby Talk. There's a brand new episode out.
0:42.1	Right now, that is patreon.com slash Dean Del Rey. And last but not least, the great 5836, my comedy special.
0:53.6	Yes, I call it great.
0:54.8	I absolutely love it.
0:56.3	First special ever shot and filmed in a cave is out right now on YouTube.
1:02.3	Go watch it.
1:03.2	Share it with your friends.
1:05.6	It's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame time right now, and I will tell you, this is probably one of my favorite singers of all time.
1:13.8	I'm talking about Lou Graham from foreigner. I cannot even express how great this man is as a lead
1:24.6	singer and songwriter. I mean, I've been listening to him from the 70s, you know?
1:29.9	I just, I turn on foreigner and it takes me right back to like a 1968 Camaro
1:39.0	with the Jensen triaxil speakers, the power booster in the glove box,
1:46.0	and the cassette player,
1:48.3	the Pioneer Supertuner,
1:51.1	and cranking it over the headers on this 396, my buddy had.
1:59.3	Just smoking around town, you just cruising that's how simple it was back in
2:07.8	the day i'm not trying to sound old i'm just saying you just had a car you had a license sometimes
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