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I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS - FOREIGNER - 1985

NEWS

• Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR.

• The exact location of the Titanic was found after 73 years under the sea.

• The P.R.M.C. would hold its first hearings on Capitol Hill about rock censorship with Frank Zappa & John Denver both testifying firmly against it.  

• The Achille Lauro cruise ship is hijacked.

• Halley’s Comet came back

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “Cocoon” “Back to the Future” and “The Breakfast Club”

• T.V.:  “Moonlighting” & “The Golden Girls” premier.

• Billy Joel marries Christie Brinkley.

• David Lee Roth leaves Van Halen and The Police call it quits.

• New Coke debuted

 

DEAD

• Rock Hudson announces has AIDS and then quickly dies from it

• Orson Wells

 

#1@1

 • It was the first single released from the album Agent Provocateur

• The song features backing vocals from the New Jersey Mass Choir,  Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday, and the Thompson Twins. 

• The choir appears in the song's music video.

• The single's B-Side "Street Thunder (Marathon Theme)" is an instrumental track originally appearing on The Official Music of the XXIII Olympiad - Los Angeles 1984

• The song has been used many times in movies and television including Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.

• Here's Foreigner with  “I Want to Know What Love Is” your #1@1 from February 1985



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