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Al Greenwood
Person · male · United States · New York City · born 1951
American musician
Also known as アル・グリーンウッド
Timeline
1950s
Biography
Biography
Alan Greenwood (born October 20, 1951) is an American rock musician who was a founding member and keyboardist of the rock band Foreigner from 1976 to 1980. He performed on the albums Foreigner (1977), Double Vision (1978) and Head Games (1979). In 2024, Greenwood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of Foreigner.
In 1981, Greenwood formed the band Spys with former Foreigner bass player Ed Gagliardi, John Blanco, John Digaudio and Billy Milne and recorded the albums Spys (1982) and Behind Enemy Lines (1983).
Greenwood played keyboards on former Rainbow (and future Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force and Deep Purple) frontman Joe Lynn Turner's 1985 debut solo album, Rescue You.
Greenwood produced and played keyboards on many Arti Tisi recordings ( with Alice Cooper, Megadeth) and Trans-Siberian Orchestra) guitarist Al Pitrelli.
Foreigner
1977: Foreigner (#4 US)
1978: Double Vision (#3 US, #32 UK)
1979: Head Games (#5 US)
1982: Records (#10 US, #58 UK)
1992: The Very Best ... and Beyond (#123 US, #19 UK)
1993: Classic Hits Live/Best Of Live
1994: JukeBox Heroes: The Best Of
1998: The Best of Ballads – I Want to Know What Love Is
1999: The Platinum Collection
2000: Hot Blooded And Other Hits
2000: Jukebox Heroes: The Foreigner Anthology
2002: Complete Greatest Hits (#80 US)
2002: The Definitive (#33 UK)
2004: Hot Blooded And Other Hits
2005: The Essentials
2008: No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner (#132 US)
2009: Can't Slow Down (#29 US)
2014: The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977–1991
Spys
1982: Spys
1983: Behind Enemy Lines
1996: Spys / Behind Enemy Lines
Joe Lynn Turner
1985: Rescue You (#146 US)
1998: Hurry Up and Wait
1999: Waiting For A Girl Like You (EP)
2016: Street of Dreams – Boston 1985
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Al Greenwood head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 7 | 44.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 0 | 0th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foreigner(band) | 1976 | 1980 | keyboard |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al_Greenwood.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4703923seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Greenwoodbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Greenwood
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees — rank #257
75px | Foreigner | Dennis Elliott, Ed Gagliardi, Lou Gramm, Al Greenwood, Mick Jones, Ian McDonald, and Rick Wills. | First nomination | Sammy Hagar
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Richard Bourgerie · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q4703923 · MusicBrainz: f136771b-40e2-4f5c-936c-bcb478b18c34
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