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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.
[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 ...
Foreigner gets a lot of love from its fans, but they never really got their due." Top Foreigner songs. ... "Cold As Ice" is the No. 4 of Tops Songs by Foreigner on Apple Music. Add in Juke Box ...
Foreigner in their heyday offered varied songs — the ballad “I Want to Know What Love Is” is very different from “Urgent” — but many have endured to become the backbone of classic rock playlists. A new line-up — dubbed Foreigner 2.0 — attract tens of thousands a night on tour.
The song was Foreigner's second-best-selling single (after "I Want to Know What Love Is") in both Canada and Sweden, reaching #1 in Canada in September 1981 and #20 in Sweden in March 1982. [14] In Australia, "Urgent" peaked at #24 in November 1981, but remained in the Top 50 for 24 weeks.
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]
Classic Rock critic Malcolm Dome rated two songs from Agent Provocateur as being among Foreigner's 10 most underrated – "Stranger in My Own House" at #6 and "Tooth and Nail" – which he describes as "the antidote to 'I Want to Know What Love Is'" – at #2. [17] Billboard said that in "Tooth and Nail" the band flex "post-punk power chords ...