Double Vision (song)

This article is about the Foreigner song. For the 3OH!3 song, see Double Vision (3OH!3 song)

"Double Vision"
Single by Foreigner
from the album Double Vision
B-side	"Lonely Children"
Released	June 1978 (1978-06)
Format	7"
Recorded	1978
Genre	Rock, hard rock
Length	3:44 3:28 (7" version)
Label	Atlantic
Writer(s)	Lou Gramm, Mick Jones
Producer	Ian McDonald, Keith Olsen, Mick Jones
Foreigner singles chronology
"Hot Blooded" (1978) "Double Vision" (1978) "Blue Morning, Blue Day" (1979)

"Double Vision" is a single by Foreigner from their second album of the same name. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978, and was a top 10 song in Canada.

This song is featured in Guitar Hero Van Halen.

Background and writing

In an interview, vocalist Lou Gramm explained the origin behind the song: " "Double Vision" was a song that was written in about late 1977 just before the Double Vision album came out. ...A lot of people think it's about being intoxicated or being high. When we were recording that song before we had the title, the New York Rangers hockey team was playing the Philadelphia Flyers and one of the big Flyers guys bumped into the Rangers' all-star goalie [John Davidson] and knocked him down and they had to take him out of the game because he was experiencing double vision."^{[citation needed]}

According to the New York Rangers web site, the incident actually took place in April 1978 during a hockey game between the Rangers and the Buffalo Sabres. The game announcers repeatedly used the phrase "double vision" which then inspired Foreigner to use it as the song's title.^[1]

References

1. ^ Halligan, John. "'JD' Inspires A Rock Song". New York Rangers.com. http://rangers.nhl.com/team/app?service=page&page=NHLPage&bcid=tra_lookback_DoubleVision. Retrieved 2009-06-18.