Mick Jones of Foreigner celebrates his 75th birthday today (12/27). Foreigner’s song “Head Games” was written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones. Lou Gramm came up with the title and melody; he and Mick Jones took it from there. It peaked at number-14 on the Billboard Hot 100. here is Mick Jones explaining how it came about and how it fit in with what the band was doing at that time.
“That was a title that Lou came up with. It was the first song he played me on two fingers on a piano. We kind of took it from there and that and ‘Dirty White Boy’ were kind of Foreigner-type songs in a way. That album, generally, was sort of a little departure. Times were changing musically in a way and we were sort of changing. We’d just had the first personnel change in the band at that point when Rick Wills came along. It was sort of a significant new step.”
