I had met the person who was becoming my wife, basically and I think I walked into the bedroom about two in the morning and I said, 'I’ve got this great idea.' I had the first two chords of the intro and the title," Jones recalled. In that same conversation, Jones directly addressed "I Want to Know What Love Is," revealing how inspiration initially struck. “He would come up with an idea or I would come up with an idea and we’d throw it back and forth and see what it did for us, and then if there was something that sounded like it had potential, we’d focus in on it and try and finish it." “There was no real method to it,” the guitarist explained.
At that time, Jones detailed the duo’s songwriting dynamic during a conversation with UCR. Jones and Gramm were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame together in 2013. He'd return in 1992 before departing once more in 2003. Gramm left the group in 1990 to focus on his solo career. 1 song in Foreigner's impressive catalog. Released as a single in November of '84, "I Want to Know What Love Is" became the only No. And you know the millions and millions that that song has brought in?" Let's work it out.' I said, 'Five percent for me after all the work I did on the song?' I said, 'You should just keep it all.' And he didn't say anything. And you know what I told him after 95-5? I said, 'Five, Mick?' I said, 'You should just keep it all.' And he did. “I should get 25 just for the vocal performance,” the singer opined. I was so stunned and crushed that he'd think I contributed next to nothing to that song.”Īccording to Gramm, the difference of opinion on "I Want to Know What Love Is" “put a wedge in us that was the beginning of the end.” “And I opened the little piece of paper that what he thought was, and he wrote down 95-5. I think I wrote down 65-35 - 35 for me, 65 for him,” Gramm recalled.
“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. They were going through this process ahead of 1984's Agent Provocateur, when the topic of “I Want to Know What Love Is” arrived.
It ‘Feels Like the First Time’ all over again,” Mick said, name-dropping his hit song “Feels Like the First Time.”Ī source added, “Their kids are thrilled they are back together.” Mick and Anne have a lot to celebrate - they also just became grandparents after Charlotte and Fun frontman Nate Ruess welcomed a son, Levon, this month.Gramm went on to note that he and Jones had a routine: at the end of an album, they’d “run down a list of the songs” and determine percentage of ownership on each track based on each musician’s contributions. They divorced in 2007 after “a little too much rock ’n’ roll lifestyle,” we’re told, but Mick is now sober and sources say his sobriety is a big factor in their reconciliation.“I’m so happy to be back with my soulmate. Mick wrote Foreigner’s 1984 hit, “I Want To Know What Love Is,” for Ann.ĭuring their first marriage, they lived in the San Remo building, where they threw legendary parties for famous friends including Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Andy Warhol. They met at a dinner party in New York after Ann and her kids moved to the city in the wake of her first marriage. We never stopped loving each other.” The couple first married in the Hamptons in 1985 and have two children, actress-director Annabelle and recording artist Alexander Dexter-Jones.Īnn is also mother to Grammy-winning producer-artist Mark Ronson, designer Charlotte Ronson and DJ-artist Samantha Ronson - whom Mick helped raise, earning them the title “the Royal Family of Rock.” We decided second time around we would elope to the exotic location of City Hall. We got married - again.”Īnn told Page Six, “We’ve been quietly working it out. Jewelry designer and social darling Ann sent a text to friends with a picture of herself and Mick kissing while clutching two bouquets of pink roses, along with the words, “City Hall NYC 4:00 p.m. A post shared by Ann Dexter-Jones on at 10:06pm PDT
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