I Want to Know What Love Is

"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 love theme and lead single from their fifth album, Agent Provocateur. The song hit number one in both the United Kingdom and the United States and is the group's biggest hit to date. It remains one of the band'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. "I Want to Know What Love Is" 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. The song is also featured in a number of films.

"I Want to Know What Love Is"
Picture sleeve for some European releases
Single by Foreigner
from the album Agent Provocateur
B-side"Street Thunder (Marathon Theme)"
ReleasedNovember 30, 1984 (1984-11-30)
RecordedDecember 1983
GenreSoft rock
Length
  • 5:04 (album version)
  • 6:23 (12-inch extended)
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)Mick Jones
Producer(s)
Foreigner singles chronology
"Luanne"
(1982)
"I Want to Know What Love Is"
(1984)
"That Was Yesterday"
(1985)
Music video
"I Want to Know What Love Is" on YouTube
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