Californian singer Eddie Chacon is now busily establishing himself as a solo artist. Dominated by low-key, woozy jams and psychedelic soul ballads that hark back to Marvin Gaye in the 1970s ...

Everybody loves power ballads, whether or not they admit it ... Starship, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” Among the onslaught of ‘80s brat pack films was Mannequin, starring Andrew McCarthy ...

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 ...

I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

Chris Isaak is a little bit underrated in the sense that many younger fans of rockabilly may not be entirely familiar with him. However, they should; Chris Isaak recorded one of the greatest rock ...

One happy day, not far from here someone walks in the sun: They’ve learned to write a ballad now So, goodbye! This one is done. The ballad is one of the oldest forms of poetry in the English ...