When music fans think about the genre of classic rock, often the big and bombastic comes to mind. Giant stacks of speakers exploding. Guitars and drum kits smashed on stage. Instruments ablaze. Hotel ...

Nothing soothes the soul and also allows one to rock out quite like power ballads, especially these four classics from 1981.

When Rolling Stone asked readers to vote on the greatest rock ballad of all time in 2011, the answers included some fairly obvious choices: Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" at #10, Pink Floyd's "Wish You ...

For Gen X and Baby Boomer music lovers, the term "classic rock" might bring to mind songs from the '60s and '70s. But as far as the radio is concerned, classic rock is all about the '80s. As Ultimate ...