[[caption-width-right:301:Features a "Juke Box Hero" who is "Urgent"ly "Waiting for a Girl Like You"]]

->''For the science-fiction novels, see {{Literature/Foreigner}}''

A British-American rock band originating in TheSeventies and TheEighties, Foreigner was one of several HardRock bands (along with with groups like Music/{{Journey}} and Music/{{Survivor}}) that gained fame in the [[ArenaRock AOR]] scene during the early 1980s. The group's mainstays were English guitarist Mick Jones (not [[Music/TheClash that one]]) and American lead vocalist [[FaceOfTheBand Lou Gramm]], with [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a rotating cast of other musicians]]. Since Gramm's departure in 2003, Jones is the only founding member still with the group.

The group had it's greatest success with a string of seven multi-platinum albums between 1977 and 1987, and had hit singles with songs including "Cold as Ice", "Juke Box Hero" and the ballads "I Want To Know What Love Is" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You". While members have come and gone, the band continues to tour today, often sharing the stage with fellow AOR stars such as Music/{{Journey}}, Music/{{Styx}} and Music/{{Chicago}}.

!!! "Trope Box Heroes!":
* ArenaRock
* GratuitousFrench: During the fade-out of "Girl on the Moon", the background vocalists can be heard singing "Fille sur la Lune" (the literal translation of the song's title) twice.
* HotBlooded: ''Check it and see! I've got a fever of a hundred and three.''
* IceQueen: "Cold as Ice"
* {{Instrumentals}}: "Tramontane," from ''Double Vision''.
* IntercourseWithYou: "Hot Blooded," "Urgent"
* LighterAndSofter: It began with one song from ''Double Vision'', and then their 80s albums became much softer than their older 70s recordings.
* PowerBallad: They recorded several. "I Want to Know What Love Is" is a particularly famous example.
** That song has lately become a BlackSheepHit or OldShame for the band, as they've admitted to wishing they never recorded it at all.
* RecordProducer: Starting with ''Head Games'', Mick Jones produced all of the group's albums in collaboration with another producer (most famously, Mutt Lange co-produced the number one album ''4'').
* RedOniBlueOni: By all accounts, Lou Gramm was Hot Blooded while Mick Jones was Cold As Ice.
* RhymingWithItself: From "Hot Blooded":
--> You don't have to read my mind
--> To know what I have in mind.
* RockStarSong: "Juke Box Hero"
* SelfTitledAlbum: Their 1977 debut.