Side 1:
Night Life
Juke Box Hero
Break It Up
Waitiing For A Girl Like You
Wanne
Side 2:
Urgent
I'm Gonna Win
Woman In Black
Girl On The Moon
Don't Let Go
Foreigner:
Lou Gramm - Lead vocal, percussion
Mick Jones - guitar, keyboard, background vocal
Rick Wills - bass, background vocal
Dennis Elliott - drums, vocals, background vocal
Additional personnel:
Hugh McCracken - slide guitar on track 9
Tom Dolby - main synthesizers
Larry Fast - sequential synthesizer on tracks 2, 3 & 10
Michael Fonfara - keyboard textures on tracks 6 & 9
Bob Mayo - keyboard textures on track 4
Mark Rivera - saxophone on tracks 6 (except solo) & 3, background vocals
Junior Walker - saxophone solo on track 6
Ian Lloyd - background vocals
Robert John "Mutt" Lange - background vocals
ProductionProduced By Robert John "Mutt" Lange & Mick Jones
Recorded & Engineered By Dave Wittman (Chief Engineer) & Tony Platt (basic tracks)
Second Engineer: Brad Samuelsohn
Assistant Engineers: Edwin Hobgood & Michel Sauvage
Mastered By George Marino
The album was originally titled Silent Partners and later was changed to 4. In 1981, renowned artist Storm Thorgerson was asked to design a cover based on the original title, and he developed a black & white image of a young man in bed with a pair of binoculars looming overhead. The resulting design was rejected by the band as they felt it was "too homosexual".[1] The replacement cover for 4 was designed by Bob Defrin and modeled after an old fashioned film leader.
The album marked the completion of the band's shift to hard rock, begun in Head Games. Both Ian McDonald and Al Greenwood had left before the recording of 4. As a result, all of the songs on the album are compositions by Mick Jones and/or Lou Gramm. McDonald and Greenwood had played saxophone and keyboards, respectively, and so several session musicians were needed to replace their contributions, among them Junior Walker, who played the saxophone solo in the bridge of "Urgent", and a young Thomas Dolby, who would later have a successful solo career.
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