![]() ![]() I think I wrote down 65-35 - 35 for me, 65 for him. And at the end of that album, when it was time to decide what the percentages were, I wrote down what I thought it should be and he wrote down what he thought it should be. I felt we had worked our tails off to make that song what it is. And so we almost had to put the song away for a couple of weeks and come back to it again. "There'd be moments where it was just magic and then we'd hit our head on something creatively that we couldn't get to the next point. So I would drive over to his house and we would work on that song," Gramm explained. ![]() "But then 'I Want To Know What Love Is'… The two of us… home was about 15 minutes from my home. ![]() I think that was 65-30, and then Ian McDonald had a little piece of that too. And 'Waiting For A Girl', he really wrote most of that, but I had a good part of that too. I would ask for about 40 percent.' And he said, 'That's fine.' And there were a lot of songs, like 'Hot Blooded' and things like that, that were 50-50 - a lot of songs. "After we would record an album, Mick and I would sit down and we'd run down a list of the songs, and he would say, 'What do you think you want on this song?' And I would say, 'I think this one I contributed quite a bit. So we crafted both of those songs together extremely proud of both of 'em. "I liked working on arrangements and everything too. "I've always loved writing melodies and lyrics," he continued. Speaking about his involvement with "I Want To Know What Love Is" and another FOREIGNER smash hit, 1981's "Waiting For A Girl Like You", he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I did help co-write them, although I didn't get any credit for 'I Want To Know What Love Is'. Gramm discussed his supposed lack of contribution to the track during a brand new interview with The Sessions. The power ballad, which is credited solely to FOREIGNER's founding guitarist Mick Jones, was released in November 1984 as the lead single from the group's fifth album, "Agent Provocateur". Former FOREIGNER singer Lou Gramm says that "greed" was the reason he wasn't listed as one of the songwriters for the band's smash hit song "I Want To Know What Love Is". ![]()
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