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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.
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 song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent; however, the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Andrew Khan, writing in The Guardian , later described the sound as reminiscent of Bob Dylan 's output from the 1980s.
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]
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 ...
A music video was created for "That Was Yesterday," directed by Jim Yukich. [17] As with "I Want to Know What Love Is", the music video for "That Was Yesterday" is based on a live performance of the song. [18] The video was filmed at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center in Birmingham, Alabama.
[7] [8] Jones has rated it as one his 11 favorite Foreigner songs. [9] According to Gramm, this is his favorite Foreigner song. [10] The song was developed out of two separate song ideas that were combined with the help of producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange. One of the ideas was the "Juke Box Hero" portion that Jones had developed and the other ...
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 ...