Tesla, “Love Song” Got to hand it to Tesla ... It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of the ‘80s power ballad trend. Cheap Trick, who’d already achieved great success in the ‘70s ...

These new tools also helped usher in the popularity of epic power ballads which permeated without the decade. In short, the ‘80s had a distinct sound, and not every song has aged with grace.

The 1960s excelled in cheesy pop ballads with songs like ... making the love songs of the genre timelessly romantic. The ’80s were big synths and poppy melodies. With the New Wave came ...

It came to me very quickly, as some of the great songs usually do.” The song was I Want To Know What Love Is. It would become a No.1 hit on both sides of the Atlantic. And it has now surpassed ...