“Double Vision” by Foreigner

"Double Vision" gave Foreigner's second album its title in 1978, and despite what plenty of people figured, it isn't about seeing two of everything after a long night. Lou Gramm and Mick Jones wrote it around late 1977, and the idea came from a hockey game: a Philadelphia Flyers bruiser flattened John Davidson, the New York Rangers' all-star goalie, who had to leave the ice seeing double.

It's hard rock built like a muscle car: Jones and Ian McDonald on guitars, Al Greenwood's synthesizer humming underneath, Ed Gagliardi and Dennis Elliott driving the bottom end, and Gramm's lead vocal aimed at the rafters. Keith Olsen produced it with Jones and McDonald. It sat at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks, stuck behind Donna Summer's "MacArthur Park", went gold, and in recent years has opened shows for both Gramm and the Kelly Hansen-fronted Foreigner.

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