"Juke Box Hero" is a song by British-American rock band Foreigner written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones from their 1981 album 4.

[4] Released as the album's third single in early 1982, it subsequently went to #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart[5][6] The song focuses on a boy unable to purchase a ticket to a sold-out rock concert.

Mick Jones told Songfacts that the song was inspired by an actual fan who stood waiting outside an arena for about five hours in the rain.

[14] The musical premiered in February 2019 at the Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto, Ontario,[15] with a book by Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais, and an all-Canadian cast led by Nova Scotian actor/singer Geordie Brown.

[19] Although the physical 45 sold fewer than 500,000 copies, "Juke Box Hero" has been certified platinum by the RIAA for over a million digital downloads.