RIAA Gold Single Award for Foreigner single "I Want To Know What Love Is". Released on Nov. 21, 1984, it was certified Gold by the RIAA for 500,000 copies sold on March 25, 1985.
A single released from the group's fifth album, Agent Provocateur, it hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK charts. It also went to #1 in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and charted highly in many other countries. Tom Bailey (keyboards) and Jennifer Holiday (background vocals) guested on the track, setting off Lou Gramm's spectacular lead vocal. By 2012 the track was certified Platinum by the RIAA for one million copies sold.*
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Item Highlights:
- RIAA Gold Single award
- In Good to VG condition
- Award from 1986
- Presented to recording studio owner
- All original
- Known as a RIAA "flower hologram" award, they were made from 1986-89
- Award measures approx. 13" x 17”
- Great collectors item for any Foreigner fan
- FREE insured shipping to continental U.S.
- International shipping available
Detailed Item Description: This RIAA Gold Single award was manufactured in 1986, making it approx. 39 years old. It is presented to the late Ed Germano, who owned The Hit Factory® recording studio where the track was recorded.
This award is in Good to VG condition with frame and plexiglass wear, and some tarnishing of the record disc (the award is among the last to be made by the New York Frame & Picture Co. and features a plated metal mother disc, not plastic). It is all original with NYF&P Co. manufacturer sticker. The numbered sticker on the back of the award is an inventory number from the recording studio.
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As to where they came from, they could have been displayed in record label offices, recording studios, artist manager's offices, radio stations, private collector's homes and yes, of course, possibly the artist's or songwriter's home. Typically, we don't know all the places they may have been over the years other than what we've stated in the description.
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*RIAA sales data source: RIAA.com
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