After becoming rock icons in the 70's with such hits as "Cold As Ice", "Double Vision", "Hot Blooded" and "Urgent", Foreigner (along with lead singer Lou Gramm) released what was to become not only their biggest hit, but one of the biggest songs of all time and an iconic video of the 80's, "I Want To Know What Love Is". A video with more slow motion footage than an NFL Films production! As someone says in VH1's look back at the 80's, "Lou Gramm sings the hell out of this song".
Founder and lead guitarist Mick Jones wrote the song after listening to a recording by the New Jersey Mass Choir, who sing the chorus. Mick Jones bears a striking resemblance to Marlon Brando in "Last Tango In Paris".
Lou Gramm later had a solo hit single, which became sort of a cult classic called "Midnight Blue"
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