I Want to Know What Love Is
| "I Want to Know What Love Is" | ||||
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| Single by Foreigner | ||||
| from the album Agent Provocateur | ||||
| B-side | "Street Thunder (Marathon Theme)" | |||
| Released | November 21, 1984 (US) November 30, 1984 (UK) | |||
| Recorded | December 1983 | |||
| Genre | Soft rock | |||
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| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mick Jones | |||
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| "I Want to Know What Love Is" on YouTube | ||||
"I Want to Know What Love Is" is a power ballad by the British-American rock band Foreigner. It was released in November 1984 as the lead single from their fifth album, Agent Provocateur. 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. The song has continued to garner critical acclaim, and is listed as one of Rolling Stone magazine's greatest songs of all time at number 476 in 2004 and at number 479 in 2010.