These songs have launched careers and inspired fans across the globe to raise their lighters (and later, cell phones) into the air. No era embraced power ballads more than the ’80s, a time ...

But they still keep the volume at a respectable level. Here's out list of 25 great power ballads. And, no, "Purple Rain" is not power ballad.

In the heyday of power ballads in the 1980s and 1990s it wouldn't be unheard of to throw all the time and money available to craft the best possible song. Record producer Trevor Horne talks ...

“How Do I Live” was meant for the action movie Con Air, a big-budget action flick ... Aerosmith had put out power ballads before, such as “Dream On” and “Crazy,” but “I Don’t ...