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. 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.
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