Agent Provocateur by Foreigner

Agent Provocateur, Foreigner's fifth album, came out on Atlantic late in 1984, with Mick Jones producing and the big-guitar, big-voice formula buffed to an arena shine. The lineup: Lou Gramm singing, Jones on guitar, Rick Wills on bass and Dennis Elliott on drums.

The centerpiece is "I Want to Know What Love Is", a towering, slow-building ballad that gave them their only number one on both the UK singles chart and the Billboard Hot 100, three weeks on top in Britain and two in America, and it remains their biggest hit. "That Was Yesterday" followed it to number 12 in the US. The album didn't sell quite like its predecessors in America, yet it still went triple platinum there, cracked the top five on the Billboard 200 and gave them their only number-one album in the UK.

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