Listen to "If I Don't Have You" here. It would be a list of love songs without a serious dose of '80s melodrama, and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is everything we could want in a glam rock ballad ...
You wouldn't immediately associate Neil Young with love songs. He is more so known for his poignant social commentaries.
Paul McCartney and Wings threw that question out in 1976, and thankfully a cavalcade of artists a decade later joined him in saying "here I go again," creating a plethora of great 80s love songs ...
He became one of the most successful soul/R&B artists of the 1980s. Very few people even realized Billy Ocean had been recording for nearly a decade before massive crossover smashes like "Suddenly" ...