Head Games Faced Bans and Defined Their '70s Sound

Foreigner was one of the biggest rock bands of the late 1970s, but they weren't immune to controversy. The band's third album, Head Games, featured a catchy title track, but it and other songs from the album were banned in certain parts of the U.S.

Written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, "Head Games" opens with a killer guitar riff with keyboards and '70s-style synthesizers, leading into lyrics about psychological games and mixed signals in a relationship. The song became a hit for Foreigner, reaching No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1979. But some radio stations weren't helping it along.

In an interview with Classic Rock Revisited, Gramm revealed that the Head Games album cover, which featured teen model Lisanne Falk in a men's bathroom, didn't fly in some cities.