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Recorded and engineered by Dave Wittman (chief engineer) and Tony Platt (basic tracks).

Produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange and Mick Jones.

Robert John "Mutt" Lange – backing vocals.

Mark Rivera – saxophone (3, 6), backing vocals.

Michael Fonfara – keyboard textures (6, 9).

Larry Fast – sequential synthesizer (2, 3, 10).

Mick Jones – keyboards, guitars, backing vocals.

"Waiting for a Girl Like You" (Nearly unplugged version) "Juke Box Hero" (Nearly unplugged version) Track listing īonus tracks on 2002 reissue, recorded in 1999 No. Jones has rated three of the songs from 4 ("Urgent," "Juke Box Hero" and "Girl on the Moon") as being among his 11 favorite Foreigner songs. Classic Rock critic Malcolm Dome also rated two songs from 4, but two different ones, as being among Foreigner's 10 most underrated – "I’m Gonna Win," which he compares to "Juke Box Hero," at #8 and "Night Life," – which he praises for its " confident energy," at #1. Ultimate Classic Rock critic Eduardo Rivadavia rated two of the songs from 4 - "Girl on the Moon" and "Woman in Black" among Foreigner's 10 most underrated songs.

The editors of Classic Rock called 4 Foreigner's "masterpiece." Ultimate Classic Rock critic Matt Wardlaw rated four of the songs from 4 - "Juke Box Hero," "Waiting for a Girl Like You," "Urgent" and "Night Life" among Foreigner's top 10 songs. It was a big mixture of a lot of different characters – so that was the inspiration for opening song, 'Night Life.'” Reception

This changing schedule helped inspire the opening song on the album, "Night Life." According to Jones "The later it got at night, the bigger the buzz got, and a lot of weird characters, some of them hookers, would appear. During that time they went from starting work at the recording studio around noon to starting around midnight. 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 soon leveraged this collaboration into a successful solo career. As a result, all of the songs on the album are compositions by Jones and/or Gramm. Hipgnosis is still credited with designing the record labels.īoth Ian McDonald and Al Greenwood had left before the recording of 4, part because they wanted to take a more significant role in writing songs, while Mick Jones wanted to control the songwriting along with Lou Gramm. The replacement cover for 4 was designed by Bob Defrin and modeled after an old fashioned film leader. The resulting design was rejected by the band as they felt it was "too homosexual". In 1981, art studio Hipgnosis was asked to design a cover based on the original title, and they developed a black and white image of a young man in bed with a pair of binoculars suspended in the air overhead. The album was originally titled Silent Partners and later was changed to 4, reflecting both the fact that it was Foreigner's fourth album and that the band was now down to four members.