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Double Vision, Head Games (1:13), Dirty White Boy (2:22), Cold As Ice (3:14), Feels Like The First Time (5:31), Urgent (6:30), Juke Box Hero (7:50), and Hot Blooded (9:10) are performed in outdoor concert by the band Foreigner. The hard rockers' Alive & Rockin' DVD was recorded live on June 23, 2006, at the Bang Your Head! Festival, Balingen, Germany. Whereas the CD in the two-disc set was recorded live on November 26, 2005, in Las Vegas, NV. The song "I Want To Know What Love Is" was omitted from the film but was included on the audio CD. Foreigner group member line-up is Mick Jones - lead guitar/keyboards/vocals, Kelly Hansen - lead vocals, Jason Bonham - drums (son of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham), Jeff Jacobs - keyboards/vocals, and Jeff Pilson - bass guitar/vocals. Lou Haviland article February 21, 2021: Foreigner's I Want to Know What Love Is’: This Band Member Regretted the ’80s Hit – ‘It Killed Us’. Foreigner’s “I Want To Know What Love Is” was unquestionably one of the hugest hits of 1985. The American-British band formed in 1976 with six musicians. By the ’80s, Foreigner was made up of Lou Gramm on lead vocals, Mick Jones on guitar, Rick Wills on bass, and Dennis Elliott on drums, but not every member of Foreigner was thrilled with the hit. The high from hitting No. 1 with the ballad in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom didn’t last long for Lou Gramm. The singer, who co-wrote many of the band’s tracks with Mick Jones and naturally received royalties on them, discovered that this would not be the case on what became the group’s defining — and most lucrative — song. Foreigner enjoyed great success at the height of their fame in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. Their hits established them as one of the world’s most accomplished bands of all time with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records. The pair of Gramm and Jones wrote most of the band’s songs either alone or collaboratively and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013. Drummer Dennis Elliott told VH1’s Behind the Music in 2002, “Great song, I just wish we’d never recorded it. It killed us. People thought they’re coming to see some sort of soft rock group and we were actually a hard-rocking band.” And Gramm, while appreciative of the tune’s success, resented it for tearing the band from its “rock ‘n’ roll moorings. “I loved singing it, and I loved the fact it shot to the top of the charts, becoming our first No. 1 song,” he penned. “What I didn’t like were the artistic ramifications.” Along with 1981’s “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” the song indeed brought the band a softer reputation and crossover success on the soft-rock and adult-pop charts. Unfortunately, it also bred intense division that led to the group’s breakup with the launch of Gramm’s solo career in 1989. The singer, who co-wrote many of the band’s tracks with Jones and naturally received royalties on them, discovered that this would not be the case on what became the group’s defining — and most lucrative — song. In his 2013 memoir Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock ‘n’ Roll, the vocalist discussed the ballad’s creation and his utter shock when Jones refused to give Gramm what he felt was his deserved writing percentage on it. “When it came time to determine the percentages for ‘I Want To Know What Love Is,’ I wrote down ‘Mick 60; me 40.’ He wrote down what he thought was fair on his sheet, and we exchanged the scraps of paper. When he unfolded my sheet, he immediately became indignant. I then looked at his sheet and read in disbelief ‘Me 95, Lou 5.'” Gramm wrote that he and Jones had spent “weeks working together” on the song. He “wanted to leap across the table and strangle him” when Jones doggedly refused to relinquish more than 5% of royalties to Gramm despite the work the singer said he had contributed to it. “‘If you want to humiliate me by offering me 5 percent, then I’ll give you what you f*cking want. You can have it all, you SOB,’ Gramm wrote as his ultimate statement to Jones. “[Mick’s] hard-line stance cost me millions of dollars, but beyond that, it had sent a powerful message to me that I was no longer a serious partner in this band,” Gramm stated. Foreigner continued on after “I Want To Know What Love Is,” but the relationship between Jones and Gramm was never the same. Lou Gramm went on to launch a successful solo career and Foreigner goes on today in name only with Mick Jones the only original member of the band.