On 19 October, Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones will celebrate as his band is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. But long before Foreigner hit big in the ’70s and ’80s with iconic songs such as Cold As Ice, Hot Blooded, Waiting For a Girl Like You and the worldwide number one I Want To Know What Love Is, Mick befriended The Beatles in the ’60s when he was working as backing musician for French rocker Johnny Hallyday. And this led to a long association with John Lennon.
As Mick recalled to Outlaw magazine in 2019: “The Beatles played at the Olympia in Paris in 1964, and also on the bill was the singer I was backing, Sylvie Vartan, who became Johnny Hallyday’s wife.
