{"id":85134,"date":"2025-12-31T00:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85134\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:20:11","slug":"classic-rock-legend-with-n-y-roots-unveils-first-album-in-17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85134\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic rock legend with N.Y. roots unveils first album in 17 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in nearly two decades, classic rock legend and Rochester native Lou Gramm has released a new album. <\/p>\n

The original voice of Foreigner and a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, Gramm revealed in a recent interview on the Kyle Meredith podcast <\/a>that his new project is due out in March. <\/p>\n

The album, \u201cReleased,\u201d will be Gramm\u2019s first full-length release since 2009, according to Blabbermouth<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Gramm, who currently resides in upstate New York, was the original lead singer of Foreigner, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> group known for hits including \u201cI Want to Know What Love Is,\u201d \u201cHot Blooded\u201d and \u201cFeels Like the First Time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReleased\u201d will be available March 20. Fans can preorder it on vinyl via Amazon<\/a>. Gramm said the first single is expected to be released in early February.<\/p>\n

In October, he told Ultimate Classic Rock<\/a> that he planned to retire soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been doing this over 54 years,\u201d Gramm told UCR. \u201cI just feel like there\u2019s some other things that I want to do. I want to spend more time with my children \u2014 my older children and my younger child \u2014 and spend more time playing with my cars while I\u2019m still capable of driving.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in nearly two decades, classic rock legend and Rochester native Lou Gramm has released…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-85134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}