Growing Up the Hard Way explained

Growing Up The Hard Way
Cover:Foreigner - Growing Up The Hard Way b-w She's Too Tough (1985).JPG
Type:single
Artist:Foreigner
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
Prev Title:Reaction to Action
Prev Year:1985
Next Title:Down on Love
Next Year: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".