![]() ![]() While the album was being mixed the lyrics were still being written! Things were being changed right up to the last minute, and that is what took a long time. I couldn’t believe what was going on! There was a problem with people not coming in Mick, who is the leader, not showing up for hours and hours, and so that obviously would really slow it down. They’re used to it, though, and I wasn’t, so it just threw me. Everyone, including the band, got really pissed off with it. "The Foreigner project a couple years back, on the other hand, just seemed to go on and on. Sadkin agreed when reminiscing on the project in 1987: ![]() Sadkin helped rekindle the project when it was on the verge of total collapse, but despite that, according to Jones, recording still never seemed to end: the sessions had been dogged from the very start and continued to remain unfocused. Eventually, another month was spent trying to look for another producer to fill his shoes, subsequently hiring Alex Sadkin, who was busy finishing the Thompson Twins' Into the Gap album. Eventually, things started to fall apart around the time of the Christmas holidays – even though co-producer & guitarist Mick Jones recalled that it began after a day of recording – due to Horn being more concerned about the performance of the singles he had produced in Europe (for bands such as Frankie Goes to Hollywood) than the Foreigner record. Then, once writing had been completed in September that year, official recording began in early October in London with Horn. Within nearly two years of releasing 4, writing and preproduction for this album began as early as June 1983 in New York, with producer Trevor Horn. The follow-up single, " That Was Yesterday", also proved to be a sizeable hit, peaking at #12 in the US The album was certified Platinum in the UK by the BPI, and triple Platinum in the US by the RIAA. Although album sales were lower than their previous work in the US, it contains the band's biggest hit single, " I Want to Know What Love Is", which is their only #1 single in the UK and the US, staying at the top spot for three and two weeks, respectively. The album was the band's first and only number one album in the United Kingdom, and it reached the top 5 in the United States. To summise, a great sounding middle of the road aor album, which now I'm a little bit older and wiser, I love and appreciate the songs better than back in 1984.Agent Provocateur is the fifth studio album by the British-American rock band Foreigner, released on December 7, 1984. Very good sounding records but hardly rock and roll. It was viewed as a cop out back then similar to The Cars and Heartbeat City, I think it was called. It's only now, with benefit of 39 years that society has elevated that "song" with the gospel.choir to such heights. They took a lot of flack for this record at the time, if I recall correctly, which I do !! Īnyway, I'm sure you all know this is not the early guitar based version of Foreigner but Mick Jones' attempt, and very successful attempt too, at breaking into more laid back synthesizer aor scene of the mid 80s.You can still hear the Les Pauls but it's tricky. The sound is superb and sounds really good on my Rega P7, I did have a uk.first press from back in 1984 but the standard of hifi gear I was using back then now cannot begin to compare to my current set up, so. I have this exact version but unless I have numb fingers, which I do now and again, I have Parkinson's, but it is not an embossed cover. ![]()
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