Do you remember the following songs playing on the radio in the late 70s and early 80s: I Want To Know What Love Is, Hot Blooded, Juke Box Hero, Feels Like The First Time, Urgent and Cold as Ice. There were more songs, sixteen top 30 hits. The band was Foreigner. The voice singing those hits, was none other than Lou Gramm.

Singer, Song Writer and one of the first people in the world to undergo Laser Brain Surgery for supposedly inoperable brain cancer.

Then there was over a decade of drug use, to the point that he had himself checked into a drug addiction centre. He’s a survivor, not just a Juke Box Hero.

Fox News has an interesting brief interview with Lou Gramm, which can be read by clicking the following: Lou Gramm Interview.

On the Official Lou Gramm website I could not find a list of band members. On the Lou Gramm Wikipedia page I found that the Drummer is Lou’s brother Ben Gramm. Michael Staertow  is on Lead Guitar. Andy Knoll is on keys. A.D. Zimmer is the band’s extraordinary Bass Player.

Lou Gramm and his band mates performed at the CNE Bandshell on Aug 23, in Toronto. After the great concert which featured many of Foreigner’s hits, folks could meet and greet Lou Gramm in a Tent area not far from the stage. Unique opportunity to talk to and get the autograph of a Rock Legend.

UPDATE Aug 26: The Wikipedia page had the incorrect info. Michael Staertow is now the band’s Guitarist extrordinaire. I corrected this post with the new info. I also made an entry on that Wikipedia page with the corrected info.
 

 

Posted by: Vincent Banial for Uniquely Toronto
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