“Power ballad.” The phrase sounds like an oxymoron. Rather, it’s shorthand for the type of song that has, over time, deftly avoided definition. To wit, an anthology titled “The Very Best of Power ...

McCartney was also expressing anguish over the direction of his personal life. “It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable,” said McCartney in Barry Miles’ 1997 biography Many Years From ...

Mariah Carey is asked by an in-studio fan which song from her new album she had the most fun recording and which was the most difficult. She reveals which new ballad from the album is now her favorite ...

A decent list of self-proclaimed black metal ballads actually exists, and its highlight is arguably Fleurety’s experimental “The Ballad of Copernicus.” Fleurety’s fellow Norwegian avant-garde black ...

The 80s was the decade for many epic classic rock tunes, so much so that those same songs are still enjoyed today.

Belt it out, set it free and put your lighters in the air my babies, let’s talk power ballads. Whether lamenting love gone wrong or celebrating life in all its failures and majesties, roses and thorns ...

Of the thousand or so songs that Bob Dylan has written in his career, only a precious few are what you could call autobiographical, in the sense that they detail actual events in his life without any ...

On Sept. 24, a historical marker was erected on Highway 208 near Tweed Farm Road in Madison County, honoring the life and ...

Recently, Roy Kim appeared on Omniscient Interfering View episode 356, released on July 19, 2025, and shared that he wrote WE GO HIGH, which was released in 2023, after being inspired by BTS' Jungkook ...

Freddie Mercury did not sing 'of the world' at the end of the original 1977 recording of "We Are the Champions." However ... What's False ... the line was present in the lyrics for the song as printed ...

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, a Hunger Games prequel focusing on young President Coriolanus Snow, not only tells the origin story of the formidable villain, but also of many of the elements of ...