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Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” Duet with fun.’s Nate Ruess Available as a Digital Single

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Credit: Alex KirzhnerOn tonight’s episode of the new ABC music-performance series Greatest Hits, Foreigner will be joined by fun. frontman Nate Ruess for a rendition of the band’s 1985 chart-topping ballad, “I Want to Know What Love Is.” In advance of the show, a special studio version of the collaboration has been released and is available for purchase now as a digital single at iTunes.

Foreigner’s founding lead guitarist and main songwriter, Mick Jones, says of the new track, “It was so exciting for us to collaborate with Nate, who I believe has one of the best voices in today’s music scene…He blended so beautifully with [frontman] Kelly Hansen, and I think fans of both Foreigner and Nate are going really love the new version of this song that’s already loved by so many fans around the world.”

“I Want to Know What Love Is” spent two weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1985, and also topped the singles charts in the U.K. and several other countries. The song has sold more than two million copies in the U.S. alone, and is among the 25 most-performed songs in performing-rights organization ASCAP’s catalog.

Greatest Hits airs on ABC at 9 p.m. ET.

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