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Foreigner to Launch Historic Farewell Tour In 2023 — ‘Very Difficult Decision,’ Says Kelly Hansen

The famous rockers of Outsider reported on Monday that their visiting days are practically finished — however not before their Memorable Goodbye Visit, which starts off the following summer in Georgia. The “Feels Like the Initial Time” band, framed in 1976 in New York City by English guitarist Mick Jones, 77, will perform 32 North American shows from July 6 in Alpharetta, GA through Sept. 3 in Holmdel, N.J., as per Announcement, which noticed the band would have more dates, both homegrown and abroad, through the finish of 2024.

“Outsider is a totally renewed band with an entirely different energy that has prevailed upon the hearts of our fans all the world, and I need to go out while the band is currently in its prime,” Jones told Board. “I had the possibility that was to become Outsider back in 1974, and I was 30 years of age at that point.

Toward the finish of our goodbye visit, north of 50 years will have passed, and that is quite a while to be out and about.”

The “Downright frigid” hit-creators affirmed the news on Instagram, sharing an image of the Board story with the inscription, “Have you heard?” The finish of visiting for the band had been a subject of discussion for quite a while, generally spinning around the subject of keeping up with the ideal type of the band’s exhibition, Outsider’s frontman, Kelly Hansen, 61, clarified for Board.

“It’s an undeniably challenging choice to come to,” he said. “This index of tunes, it’s incredibly trying for a stone tenor performer such as myself to sing.


I could never have imagined in 1,000,000 years I’d be singing these melodies in the keys at this age, and I don’t have the foggiest idea how much longer I can do that at the level I really want do. You can drop keys and do this and do that, yet I’m a greater amount of an old fashioned individual. In the event that I’m not doing it seriously, then, at that point, I ought not be making it happen.”

Hansen added, “We’re at a time in life where a great deal of groups from the ’70s are right on the worn out edge of as yet having the option to do shows.

I see different artists at times that I go, ‘Amazing, that was frustrating,’ and I would rather not be somebody that others express that about.

I believe that should do this band how it should be, and when dislike that, I would rather not be making it happen.”

Prodding conceivable new music not too far off to Announcement, the famous gathering has delivered nine studio collections, five of which went multi-platinum since their 1977 self-named debut.

The gathering actually has various 2022 shows booked and more in the spring, all happening before the goodbye send off.

Tickets for The Notable Goodbye Visit go at a bargain Friday through livenation.com. More data and updates will be presented on foreigneronline.com.

July 6, 2023 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre

July 6, 2023 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre

July 9, 2023 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre

July 11, 2023 – Nashville, TN – Ascend Amphitheatre

July 14, 2023 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP

July 19, 2023 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

July 21, 2023 – Indianapolis, IN – Ruoff Music Center

July 22, 2023 – Tinley Park, IL – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

July 24, 2023 – Cleveland, OH – Blossom Music Center

July 25, 2023 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage

July 28, 2023 – Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater

July 29, 2023 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake

Aug. 1, 2023 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Aug. 2, 2023 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach

Aug. 3, 2023 – Gilford, NH – Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion

Aug. 5, 2023 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

Aug. 8, 2023 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek

Aug. 9, 2023 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion

Aug. 11, 2023 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion

Aug. 12, 2023 – Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

Aug. 14, 2023 – Austin, TX – Moody Center

Aug. 16, 2023 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena

Aug. 18, 2023 – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheater

Aug. 20, 2023 – Phoenix, AZ – Ak-Chin Pavilion

Aug. 21, 2023 – Irvine, CA – FivePoint Amphitheater

Aug. 23, 2023 – Wheatland, CA – Toyota Amphitheater

Aug. 24, 2023 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre

Aug. 30, 2023 – Detroit, MI – Pine Knob Music Theater

Sept. 1, 2023 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena

Sept. 2, 2023 – Syracuse, NY – St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview

Sept. 3, 2023 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center

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