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Growing Up the Hard Way

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"Growing Up The Hard Way"

SinglebyForeigner

from the album Agent Provocateur

B-side

"She's Too Tough"

Released

September 1985

Recorded

Early 1984

Genre

Hard rock

Length

4:18 (album version)
3:32 (single version)

Label

Atlantic

Songwriter(s)

Lou Gramm

Mick Jones

Producer(s)

Alex Sadkin

Mick Jones

Foreigner singles chronology

"Reaction to Action"
(1985)

"Growing Up The Hard Way"
(1985)

"Down on Love"
(1985)

"Growing Up the Hard Way" is the fifth and final single taken from the album Agent Provocateur by the band Foreigner, and subsequently released only in Europe in September 1985. The song was written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, and the B-side, "She's Too Tough", a rockin' Elvis Presley-type song, is also featured on the American single release of "Reaction to Action".

References

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v t e Foreigner
Mick Jones Thom Gimbel Jeff Pilson Kelly Hansen Michael Bluestein Chris Frazier Bruce Watson Dennis Elliott Lou Gramm Al Greenwood Ian McDonald Ed Gagliardi Rick Wills Johnny Edwards Bruce Turgon Brian Tichy Denny Carmassi Jason Bonham Paul Mirkovich Jason Sutter
Studio albums	Foreigner Double Vision Head Games 4 Agent Provocateur Inside Information Unusual Heat Mr. Moonlight Can't Slow Down
Compilations	Records The Very Best ... and Beyond Complete Greatest Hits The Definitive Collection No End in Sight: The Very Best of Foreigner 40
Live albums	Classic Hits Live/Best of Live Extended Versions Can't Slow Down ... When It's Live!
Singles	"Feels Like the First Time" "Cold as Ice" "Long, Long Way from Home" "Hot Blooded" "Double Vision" "Blue Morning, Blue Day" "Dirty White Boy" "Head Games" "Love on the Telephone" "Women" "Urgent" "Juke Box Hero" "Waiting for a Girl Like You" "Break It Up" "Luanne" "I Want to Know What Love Is" "That Was Yesterday" "Reaction to Action" "Growing Up the Hard Way" "Down on Love" "Say You Will" "I Don't Want to Live Without You"
Related articles	Discography Members Shadow King Black Sheep

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