Mick Jones/Lou Gramm

English guitarist Mick Jones and American vocalist Lou Gramm formed an exceptional songwriting partnership that provided their arena rock band Foreigner with major hits like “Hot Blooded” and “Urgent.” Other hits showed greater emotional depth, like the power ballad “Waiting For A Girl Like You.” But “I Want To Know What Love Is,” which topped the charts in 1985, featured the New Jersey Mass Choir and Jennifer Holliday in its striking fusion of gospel music and pop.

Key songs in the Jones/Gramm catalog include “Cold As Ice,” “Dirty White Boy,” “Double Vision,” “Head Games,” “Hot Blooded,” “Juke Box Hero” and “Waiting For A Girl Like You.”

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