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Foghat
Band London United Kingdom Formed 1971
Foghat formed in 1971 in London, United Kingdom. Foghat has 164 chart appearances on 94 radio countdowns from 31 stations on RockLists, spanning 1982–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Slow Ride”, which appears on 94 lists with a best position of #11. The station that charted Foghat most often is KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), with 24 appearances.
Foghat came together in London in 1971 and took the blues and boogie and cranked them up until the windows rattled. Dave Peverett, Rod Price, Roger Earl and Tony Stevens made up the first lineup, and what set them apart was the electric slide guitar, sliding and squealing all over records that were built for dancing, drinking and driving too fast.
It's hard rock without pretension: big, fat boogie shuffles, a no-nonsense blues-rock backbeat and choruses that go straight for the gut. Signed to Bearsville Records, they hit the jackpot with Fool for the City in 1975, which gave the world "Slow Ride", a thumping, relentless locomotive of a song that has never really left the air, and the swaggering title track too. Night Shift in 1976 brought "Drivin Wheel", and Stone Blue in 1978 kept the boogie rolling.
The lineup has churned through the years, with Earl the one who stayed, but the machine keeps chugging: 17 studio albums, eight gold records, one platinum, and a live album that went double platinum. Nobody ever accused Foghat of subtlety. Nobody ever needed to.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Foghat on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slow Ride#207 of all time | 94 | #11 | – | – | |
| 2 | Fool for the City | 31 | #158 | – | – | |
| 3 | I Just Wanna Make Love To You | 10 | #146 | – | – | |
| 4 | I Just Want To Make Love To You | 11 | #168 | – | – | |
| 5 | I Just Want To Make Love To… | 5 | #308 | – | – | |
| 6 | Stone Blue | 7 | #414 | – | – | |
| 7 | I Just Wanna Make Love | 2 | #203 | – | – | |
| 8 | Drivin Wheel | 3 | #473 | – | – | |
| 9 | I Just Want to Make Love to You (Live) | 1 | #910 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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