"I Want to Know What Love Is" is a 1984 power ballad recorded by the British-American rock band Foreigner. The song hit #1 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. Foreigner is a British-American rock band, originally formed in 1976 by veteran English musician Mick Jones and fellow Briton and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm. Foreigner are one of the world's best-selling bands of all time with worldwide sales of nearly 80 million albums, including 37.5 million albums in the United States alone. THIS VIDEO OWNED BY ATLANTIC RECORDS AND THE PERFORMERS THIS VIDEO IS ONLY FOR ENTERTAINMENT