I always felt he was a very underrated keyboard artist. He wrote only three songs for Foreigner but they were all classics: Starrider, Rev on the Red Line and this one. I believed he used an Orchestron and the main string sound was an ARP Omni Synthesizer. He also would use an Oberheim OB-1 (I be...
Al Greenwood could write some good ones: Starrider, Tramontane...never understood why they let him go during production of Foreigner IV. Still wonder about that.
This was the best song he ever did, not to mention the album (The Stranger - another great song).