I really believed that the lifestyle had the better of me and that I couldn’t walk away from it now. Gramm: I think it was a night after we’d played Madison Square Garden. Gramm: When the New Jersey Mass Choir sang, “I want to know what love is,” and we were in the control room, I can remember the short hair on the back of my neck standing up. Gramm: It’s pretty staggering, and it happened extremely fast. It seems like we would come right off a tour, into the studio, and the last two weeks of the tour, we’d be putting ideas together for the next album. Today, 30 years later, Lou is still performing after battling a brain tumor that almost killed him. Scott Ross : On the strength of hits like “Juke Box Hero,” “Hot Blooded,” and “I Want to Know What Love Is,” Foreigner sold over 50 million albums worldwide with Lou Gramm behind the mic. I don’t mourn those years, because I am where I am now and that’s the best news ever. Everybody has to go through something different. I think about the years wasted before I knew the Lord. Gramm: After my operation, which there was a very good chance I might have died on that operating table, I had thought long and hard about making a Christian rock album. Around that time, while recovering from brain surgery, he remembers feeling called to sing a new song. ![]() Ross : Lou remained with Foreigner for years, finally parting ways in 2003. Gramm: “What in the world’s wrong with you?” The cocaine lines and the joints came out, and I let them know that I wouldn’t be doing that with them and that I wouldn’t be doing that anymore. I waited until the next tour, and we were on the bus. Ross: It was one of those kind of prayers? Ross: This pastor prays with you, you pray, Jesus Christ comes into my life? Ross : The next morning, Lou checked himself into rehab and was soon praying the sinner’s prayer with a staff pastor. I prayed for the strength and the sense to break the chain. Ross : But after 15 years of drugs, sex and rock’n’roll, Lou had a revelation. Gramm: When the New Jersey Mass Choir sang, “I want to know what love is,” and we were in the control room, I can remember the short hair on the back of my neck standing up. Ross : One song seemed to stand out and blew the world open at the time: “I Want to Know What Love Is”. It seems like we would come right off a tour, into the studio, and the last two weeks of the tour, we’d be putting ideas together for the next album. Gramm: It’s pretty staggering, and it happened extremely fast. ![]() Ross : Even still, Lou enjoys remembering the late 1970s when Foreigner was rock’n’roll royalty. Lou Gramm: I’m left taking about 15, 16 prescribed medications twice a day. Decades later, Lou is still performing after battling a brain tumor that almost killed him. ![]() On the strength of hits like “Juke Box Hero,” “Hot Blooded,” and “I Want to Know What Love Is,” Foreigner sold over 50 million albums worldwide with Lou Gramm behind the mic. The 700 Club's Scott Ross sits down with original lead singer for the multi-platinum rock band Foreigner, Lou Gramm.
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