Agent Provocateur (album)

For other uses, see Agent provocateur (disambiguation).
Agent Provocateur
Studio album by
Foreigner
ReleasedDecember 14, 1984
RecordedOctober 1983−July 1984
StudioThe Hit Factory and Right Track Recording (New York, NY)
GenreRock
Length42:23
LabelAtlantic
ProducerMick Jones
Foreigner chronology
Records
(1982) 		Agent Provocateur
(1984) 		Inside Information
(1987)
Singles from Agent Provocateur
  1. "I Want to Know What Love Is"
    Released: November 1984
  2. "That Was Yesterday"
    Released: March 1985[1]
  3. "Reaction to Action"
    Released: May 1985[2]
  4. "Down on Love"
    Released: August 1985[3]
  5. "Growing Up the Hard Way"
    Released: September 1985[4]

Agent Provocateur is the fifth studio album by the British-American rock band Foreigner, released on December 14, 1984.[5] The album was the band's only number-one album on the United Kingdom Albums Chart, and it reached the top five on the United States Billboard 200. Although album sales were lower than their previous work in the US, it contains the band's biggest hit single, the album’s love theme "I Want to Know What Love Is", which is their only #1 single on the UK singles chart and the US Billboard Hot 100, staying at the top spot for three and two weeks, respectively. The follow-up single, "That Was Yesterday", also proved to be a sizeable hit, peaking at #12 in the US. The album was certified Platinum in the UK by the BPI, and triple Platinum in the US by the RIAA.[6]

  1. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. p. 302. ISBN 9780862415419.
  2. ^ "Foreigner singles".
  3. ^ "Foreigner singles".
  4. ^ "Foreigner singles".
  5. ^ "BPI".
  6. ^ RIAA database Archived May 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine