Mick Jones from Foreigner Earns a Hall of Fame Nomination

Foreigner's Mick Jones
Foreigner's Mick Jones. (PRNewsFoto/Foreigner)

Foreigner’s Mick Jones has been nominated to the 2013 Songwriters Hall of Fame along with co-writer Lou Gramm. “The most fulfilling thing about songwriting is creating music that inspires so much love and hope,” stated Jones. “I’m honored to be nominated by The Songwriters Hall of Fame for doing one of the things I love most.”
 
Jones is responsible for penning Foreigner hits including “I Want To Know What Love Is,” “Feels Like The First Time,” “Juke Box Hero,” “Waiting For A Girl Like You,” “Urgent,” “Cold As Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” and “Double Vision.” He’s earned 10 multi-platinum albums and has 16 Top 30 hits, selling more than 75 million albums over his five decade career.
 
Winner of the British Ivor Novello Songwriter award for “The Flame Still Burns” from Still Crazy, Jones also worked with Eric Clapton on “Bad Love” and Ozzy Osbourne on “Dreamer.”
 

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“The Songwriters Hall of Fame celebrates songwriters, educates the public with regard to their achievements, and produces a spectrum of professional programs devoted to the development of new songwriting talent through workshops, showcases and scholarships. Out of the tens of thousands of songwriters of our era, there are fewer than 400 inductees who make up the impressive roster enshrined in the Hall of Fame. The list includes Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland, Albert Hammond, Desmond Child, Paul Williams, Hal David and Burt Bacharach, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Isaac Hayes and David Porter, Richard and Robert Sherman, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Sir Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Brian Wilson, James Taylor, Don Schlitz, Bruce Springsteen, Curtis Mayfield, Jim Croce, Phil Collins, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Loretta Lynn, Jimmy Webb, Van Morrison, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Diane Warren, Leonard Cohen and Bob Seger among many others.”
 
Source: Foreigner