mick jones

Foreigner leader Mick Jones blamed complications from heart surgery for his temporary absence from the road, but that wasn't really the whole story.

On the afternoon that we spoke with Mick Jones, he was phoning us from a somewhat unusual location -- a table at Starbucks where he stopped in with his assistant in the midst of a busy day of appointments.

Sammy Hagar confirms a story Mick Jones told us about engineer Donn Landee during the recording of Van Halen's '5150.'

Mick Jones and Lou Gramm wrote or co-wrote all of Foreigner's biggest hits. They owned the Hot 100 in 1984 with, "I Want To Know What Love Is."

Gramm and Jones met again on stage last summer for the first time in a decade.

Hagar and '5150' producer Mick Jones recently wrote a few songs together.

Could the reunion Foreigner fans have been hoping for finally come to pass?

Foreigner's Mick Jones made headlines back in February when a heart attack forced him to undergo surgery -- and cancel a string of tour dates in the bargain -- but he's on the mend and back on the road again.

After a successful 2011 summer tour with Journey and Night Ranger, Foreigner is back on the road for 2012 having just added a July 26th date in Altoona, Iowa.