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 ...

Power ballads are frequently associated with the 1980s, and indeed it helps to have a 1980s-style mane of hair to fling around as you sing, but power ballads aren't confined to one particular decade.

Who doesn't! That track featured most of the 1980s music aristocracy with most of the band who played on Michael Jackson's Thriller. In the heyday of power ballads in the 1980s and 1990s it wouldn ...