Below we’ve ranked the 50 Greatest Power Ballads in Rock History ... It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of the ‘80s power ballad trend. Cheap Trick, who’d already achieved great success ...

The band teased their hair and broke big with this schlocky power ballad, an MTV favorite and car ride sing-a-long staple that made it all the way to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in fall 1989.

Yet another '80s classic to grace our list ... and easily earns its place in our list of the best love songs. The pure poetry of the piano ballad will bring out the romantic in anyone.

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Until now, that has done nothing to undermine the enduring popularity of the ballad, which spent eight weeks at No 1 in the Billboard charts and remains a perennial if puzzling favourite at weddings.