We now know that by the late 1980s, Princess Diana was struggling with her marriage to Prince Charles. But even at the time, ...

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In the case of grunge, most of the ballads weren’t about love, but focused on inner turmoil and pain instead. Sadly, many of the musicians who wrote the songs on this list died at a young age, so it ...

James Hetfield wasn't sure about letting his Metallica bandmates hear Nothing Else Matters. Thank goodness he did ...

Power ballads might just be the perfect type of songs to listen to if you want a hefty dose of anthemic, emotional lyrics, with enough rock elements to jam out to. In 1981, power ballads were all the ...

Tehuan Harris is a news and features journalist at Collider, reporting and writing about all things music and reality TV (sometimes). She is a talented journalist and a natural storyteller who writes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Dad-rock is this fascinating label in pop culture that’s often ...

As anybody who turned on the radio or watched MTV in the late '80s will remember, the music from Def Leppard's diamond-selling 1987 album Hysteria was truly inescapable (not that hard rock/hair metal ...

The 1980s pulsed with an electric energy that transformed not just music, but the entire cultural landscape of America. This was the decade when MTV revolutionized how we consumed music, when ...