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"Waiting for a Girl Like You" is a 1981 power ballad [2] by the British-American rock band Foreigner released as the second single from the album 4 (1981) and was co-written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones. The opening motif was written by Ian McDonald [4] and the distinctive synthesizer theme was performed by the then-little-known Thomas Dolby.
"I Want to Know What Love Is" is a power ballad [6] by the British-American rock band Foreigner. It was released in November 1984 as the love theme and lead single from their fifth album, Agent Provocateur. The song reached number one on both the United Kingdom singles chart and the United States Billboard Hot 100 and is the group's biggest hit.
The third single released, the power ballad "Waiting for a Girl Like You," went to No. 2 on the US Hot 100 for a record 10 consecutive weeks and, like "Urgent," topped the US Rock Tracks chart. It also went to No. 2 in Canada and became their first single to reach the top 10 in the UK (No. 8) and Australia (No. 3), while reaching the top 20 in ...
Rolling Stone once praised Lou Gramm as “the Pavarotti of the power ballad,” a comparison to Italian operatic tenor extraordinaire Luciano Pavarotti. 2. A bluegrass legend is among Lou Gramm's ...
Foreigner is the debut studio album by British-American rock band Foreigner, released on March 8, 1977. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It spun off three hit singles, " Feels Like the First Time ", " Cold as Ice " and " Long, Long Way from Home ".
“I’m Just Ken,” the showstopping number performed by Ryan Gosling in “Barbie,” took Mark Ronson and co-songwriting partner Andrew Wyatt just two days to write. “But we needed the ...
Billboard said that the single "returns the group to the massive power ballad sound that's propelled their biggest pop hits." [2] Cash Box said that "heart tugging sentimentality meets slickly professional rock" and predicted a "fast rise up the pop singles chart" based on Foreigner's "knack for slow rocking love tunes."
The Very Best of Power Ballads - The Greatest Driving Anthems in the World... Ever! is an edition in The Greatest Driving Anthems in the World... Ever! series, which is a part of The Best... Album in the World...Ever! brand. Each album includes select power ballads starting from the 1960s, while one album specifically includes Sixties Power ...