"I Don't Want to Live Without You" is a song written by
Mick Jones that was first released by the pop rock band
Foreigner on their 1987 album ''
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''. Jones has rated it as one of his favorite Foreigner songs.
Released as the follow-up
single to the song "
Say You Will," "I Don't Want to Live Without You" peaked at #5 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in May 1988.
[ It was the band's ninth and final Top 10 hit, and its sixteenth and final entry in the ]Top 40
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portion of the ''Billboard'' pop singles chart. On the ''Billboard'' adult contemporary chart
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, the song became Foreigner's only #1 hit, spending one week atop the tally the week of May 14, 1988.[Hyatt, Wesley (1999). ''The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits'' (Billboard Publications)] The band had previously reached the Top 5 on the AC chart twice, with the songs "Waiting for a Girl Like You
"Waiting for a Girl Like You" is a 1981 power ballad by the British-American rock band Foreigner released as the second single from the album '' 4'' (1981) and was co-written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones. The opening motif was written by Ian Mc ...
" (#5 in 1981) and "I Want to Know What Love Is
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" (#3 in 1985).[
'' Cash Box'' said that "Mick Jones has fashioned a lush and emotional track for Lou Gramm's well-measured singing" and that "if you loved 'I Want to Know What Love Is' from '']Agent Provocateur
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'' you'll flip for this one."
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
See also
* List of Hot Adult Contemporary number ones of 1988
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References
1988 singles
Foreigner (band) songs
Songs written by Mick Jones (Foreigner)
1987 songs
1980s ballads
Rock ballads
Atlantic Records singles
Song recordings produced by Mick Jones (Foreigner)
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