BETHLEHEM, Pa. — A classic rock band that sold more than 40 million albums and had 15 Top 25 hits will tour in advance of its 50th anniversary with its original lead singer.
And it will include a stop in the Lehigh Valley.
Foreigner, which ruled the charts from 1977 to 1987 with songs such as “Feels Like the First Time," "Hot Blooded" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You," will perform at Wind Creek Event Center at 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7.
Tickets, at $49.50-$89.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. July 11 at the Wind Creek website or at the box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.Wind Creek Event Center website
Tickets, at $49.50-$89.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. July 11 at the Wind Creek website or at the box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.
The tour, described in a release as "a frontrunner to the 50th anniversary" in 2027, will focus on the Sept. 12 release of a "deluxe edition" of its 1981 multi-platinum album "4," the release said.
And the tour will feature original lead singer Lou Gramm "guesting on some of the songs he helped create almost forty-five years ago," it said.
Gramm left Foreigner 20 years ago. Kelly Hansen, who replaced Gramm, announced he faces vocal issues and will step down after a tour this summer.
Foreigner announced that guitarist Luis Maldonado will take over lead vocals.
The new tour has announced just eight dates, with the Bethlehem show being the fourth.
An album of hits
The band recently toured Mexico and South America with Gramm, and "we all had such a fantastic time performing and being together," Maldonado said in the release.
"It’s with that same excitement I look forward to working with Lou again."Foreigner singer Luis Maldonado
"It’s with that same excitement I look forward to working with Lou again," he said. "He was an integral part of the writing and recording of the Foreigner '4' album and his presence will add a historic dimension to our forthcoming tour.”
The album "4," released in 1981, was No. 1 on the Billboard Albums chart for 10 weeks and produced the platinum hits "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "Juke Box Hero," as well as the Top 5 hit "Urgent." It sold more than 6 million copies.
Its next album, 1984's "Agent Provocateur," included its biggest-selling single, "I Want to Know What Love Is,” which Gramm also sang.
That song sold platinum and was No. 1 for 10 weeks, and returned to the Top 25 in 2000, 2001 and 2002 on Billboard’s Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents chart.
Foreigner also had the hits “Cold As Ice,” “Dirty White Boy,” "Double Vision" and "Say You Will." Its 1978 album “Double Vision” sold more than 7 million copies alone.
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024.
Foreigner's founding guitarist Mick Jones announced in 2024 that he has Parkinson's disease and would no longer perform, meaning without Gramm it has no original members.
The band last played Wind Creek, then known as Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, in 2010. It played Allentown Fair with Journey in 2011 and with Styx in 2013.
