After writing the first three chords, I knew something was happening,” Mick Jones recalled of the night in 1984 when he wrote ...

Until now, that has done nothing to undermine the enduring popularity of the ballad, which spent eight weeks at No 1 in the Billboard charts and remains a perennial if puzzling favourite at weddings.

I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate ... text features that we used in the 1960s (as opposed to the 80s for the rest of ...

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 ...

“After writing the first three chords, I knew something was happening,” Mick Jones recalled of the night in 1984 when he wrote the song that gave his band Foreigner their biggest hit.