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.

Everybody loves power ballads, whether or not they admit it ... the singer wrote “Blaze of Glory” for the action-western flick Young Guns II. Bon Jovi reportedly got involved in the project ...

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 ...