“Blue Morning Blue Day” by Foreigner

"Blue Morning, Blue Day" was a late arrival in the sessions for Double Vision, Foreigner's second album, in 1978, a Lou Gramm and Mick Jones song that Gramm himself called a dark horse, but its story was strong enough to make it the album's third single. It reached 15 on the Hot 100, making six top-40 singles for Foreigner inside two years, and 45 in Britain.

Gramm has described it as the tale of a young musician burning himself out, head crowded with worries, walking the streets at night, with blue standing in for misery; Malcolm Dome of Classic Rock heard a man stuck in a trap of his own making. Gramm sings lead, Jones plays electric guitar and sings backup, and Ian McDonald, Al Greenwood, Ed Gagliardi and Dennis Elliott fill out guitar, keyboards, bass and drums. Jones, McDonald and Keith Olsen produced.

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