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Lou Gramm. credit: Krishta Abruzzini Released, the brand-new studio album by former Foreigner singer Lou Gramm, was actually decades in the making. It consists of unfinished music that the rocker had originally recorded around the time of his solo records, 1987’s Ready or Not and 1989’s Long Hard Look. “The ideas were half-baked,” Gramm says today, “and I ran out of time, and they’ve been sitting around for 25 years or more.” But Gramm never forgot about those songs he was never able to complete. “When you do a new record, you want to write new things,” he says. “But some of these songs just had the freshness and the attitude of something that was brand new. I just felt that I wanted to take these things out of the closet, out of the vault, and finish them.” The result is a collection of 10 songs — a mixture of rockers and ballads he co-wrote with bassist Bruce Turgon — that carries the unmistakable sound and voice Gramm forged during his time with Foreigner. The musicians featured on Released (which came out last Friday) includes future Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell, bassist Tony Franklin and Gramm’s brother Ben on drums. Asked if the archival songs underwent either major or minor updating for Released, Gramm says most of them required an additional verse. “I would write the first two verses and then make a judgment if it was going to be good enough for the record and stuff,” he says. “But a lot of them needed a third verse. A lot of them needed a lead guitar and probably some harmonies and maybe a tambourine. But even without that stuff, you could tell those songs had potential.” The first single off Released, “Young Love,” is an anthemic rocker that easily recalls…

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