{"id":4068,"date":"2014-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/02\/17\/mick-jones-talks-about-the-power-ballads\/"},"modified":"2014-02-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T00:00:00","slug":"mick-jones-talks-about-the-power-ballads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/02\/17\/mick-jones-talks-about-the-power-ballads\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Jones talks about the power ballads"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘I do know what love is,\u201d Foreigner\u2019s Mick Jones tells me. \u201cLove is the most important thing in the world. It gives us freedom, passion and emotion, it helps us understand the deeper meaning of things. Music<\/a> <\/strong>has a way of conveying that better than anything else.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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It is 30 years since Jones wrote I Want To Know What Love Is. He still remembers the night. \u201cIt was two in the morning in my apartment in London, and I was with the woman who was to become my wife. I had just bought a Jupiter 8 synthesizer, and I was noodling around, trying different sounds out, and I hit on that organ sound. I put my hands on the keyboard and it just happened, it was almost a spiritual experience, four chords that set the mood up, and this line came into my head. I ran into the bedroom and woke my fianc\u00e9e. I said, ‘I\u2019ve got this great new song: I want to know what love is.\u2019 She looked at me drowsily and said, ‘What do you mean? You don\u2019t know already? We\u2019re getting married!\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not crazy about the term power ballad,\u201d admits Mick Jones. \u201cTo me it conjures up metal bands thrashing away over corny love songs. A ballad doesn\u2019t need to be over-produced. It comes from writing something that touches people\u2019s hearts. Singing along, being part of a big chorus, has its own dynamics. At our shows, we see all ages, kids as young as 10, adults as old as me, singing all the words. That\u2019s the real power.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: The Telegraph<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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