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The song reached number one on both the United Kingdom singles chart and the United States Billboard Hot 100 and is the group's biggest hit. "I Want to Know What Love Is" remains one of Foreigner's best-known songs and most enduring radio hits, charting in the top 25 in 2000, 2001, and 2002 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents chart.
Billboard said that the single "returns the group to the massive power ballad sound that's propelled their biggest pop hits." [2] Cash Box said that "heart tugging sentimentality meets slickly professional rock" and predicted a "fast rise up the pop singles chart" based on Foreigner's "knack for slow rocking love tunes."
The song was written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, and the B-side "Two Different Worlds" is also of note for being the first solo-written Lou Gramm song to appear on a single. The extended remix added additional lyrics to the intro, and these lyrics can also be heard in the live version from the DVD All Access Tonight - 25 - Live In Concert .
A classic rock station in Philly, 102.9, agrees with us on the top song for our rough list: "As far as debut singles go, 'Feels Like the First Time' is one of the best.
The 18-song album, coming out Oct. 4, includes such massive hits as “Feels Like the First Time,” “Cold as Ice,” “Long, Long Way from Home,” and “I Want to Know What Love Is,” and ...
The song was the band's biggest hit until "I Want to Know What Love Is" hit number 1 in 1985. In Canada, the song was number 2 for 2 weeks, kept out of number 1 by "The Friends of Mr Cairo" by Jon and Vangelis on its 5 week run at number 1. The song ranked at number 80 on Billboard's "Greatest Songs of All Time". [14]
Foreigner's next album, Agent Provocateur, co-produced by Alex Sadkin, was released in December 1984 and, in 1985, gave them their first and only No. 1 hit song in the US and several other countries (except for Canada, where "Urgent" had reached No. 1) when "I Want to Know What Love Is", a ballad backed by Jennifer Holliday and the New Jersey ...
Foreigner in San Francisco, 2009 The discography of Foreigner , a British - American rock band, consists of 9 studio albums , 7 live albums , 20 compilation albums , and 47 singles . The band was formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and Ian McDonald , and American vocalist Lou Gramm .