We're changing things up a bit this week, asking you for your preferred hard rock style. Do you always have your lighter ready for a killer tender-hearted power ballad or would you prefer a little ...

The power ballad was just as essential to the 1980s as hairspray, shoulder pads, and neon. Here are three of the best.

Everybody loves power ballads, whether or not they admit it. There’s just something about a rock band slowing things down and cranking up the emotion. For generations, the force of power ballads has ...

This is the song that started it all. In 1980, then-unknown New Jersey songwriter Jon Bongiovi recorded a rough version of this song at his cousin’s studio in Manhattan. He recorded it again two years ...

Here are 10 romantic hard rock songs to set the mood. A good love song can steam up any romantic situation, especially when it's of the hard rock variety. On top of that, intimate power ballads are ...

As the '80s came to a close and a new decade dawned, it was obvious that the heavy music landscape needed — and had begun to undergo — a radical shift. It was a unique moment in hard rock and metal ...

Inspiration can come from the most unexpected places, as one songwriter discovered after hearing about an interview where Barbra Streisand and James Brolin discussed their romance, and eventually ...