tour, Gramm was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor and underwent surgery. He continued to work with Jones throughout his illness. By 1998, Gramm was back touring with Foreigner. 2000s to present In early 2003, Gramm once again departed from Foreigner. The Lou Gramm Band released a Christian rock album in 2009. In May 2013, Lou released his autobiography Juke Box Hero - My five decades in rock 'n' Roll. Gramm was inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame on 13 June 2013. On 20 July 2017, Gramm joined Foreigner for three songs during an encore at Jones Beach Theatre in Long Island, New York. On 29 December 2018, Gramm announced on stage in Schenectady, New York that he was retiring from touring. However, he stated that he would continue to release studio music and perform occasional live shows including The Lopen, a celebrity concert produced by Howard Perl Entertainment to benefit children at Akron Children's Hospital. In 2019, Gramm toured on a bill with Asia Featuring John Payne, where they also acted as his back-up group. Gramm performed lead vocals on the track "Sometimes" on the 2019 album The Secret by Alan Parsons. Gramm told RockBandReviews.com in 2019 that he was planning to release some new solo material later that year. "I'm working on some things now that were extra songs on my solo albums," he said. "If there's 10 songs on the album, you usually record 13 and pick the best 10, or the 10 that are finished. So the other three have been siting around for 25, 30 years, and I went back recently and listened to them, and they sounded so good that I finished them. Starting in about two months, maybe three months, I'm gonna be releasing three songs on downloads and see how that works out. So those songs will be heard for the first time. And then in another three or four months, there's gonna be three more new songs released. So that could be going on for six or eight months, and we'll see what happens." Gramm also said that he is "thinking about" releasing a greatest-hits package of his non-Foreigner works. Personal life In 1992, Gramm, after having completed a stint in drug rehabilitation, became a born again Christian. In April 1997, Gramm was diagnosed with a type of brain tumor called a craniopharyngioma. Although the tumor was benign, the resulting