“So he said, ‘What about ‘I’m all out of love, I’m so lost without you’?’ And I thought, Yeah, that sounds great.” It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of the ‘80s power ballad ...

One of the more underrated bands of the 1980s, Tesla, which is still going strong today, hit it big (reaching No. 10 on the Hot 100) with this ballad from 1989's The Great Radio Controversy. T hat ...

Cristina Inglada, Valencia (Spain) 'TRUE' is the best song ever:just perfect. Agnes Lang, Port Glasgow As perfect as a song possibly can be. The right song-writer, the right musicians and the right ...

I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate ... text features that we used in the 1960s (as opposed to the 80s for the rest of ...