What rock and metal songs have been turned into piano ballads? Do you know of any rock or metal song that eventually found its counterpart in an equally valid piano ballad version? Because whether a ...

If a country ballad isn’t a tearjerker, then you’re probably not doing it right. These classics from 1963 continue to make us ...

Power ballads are a uniquely 1980s thing, though they certainly didn’t disappear when the decade came to an end. But there’s something about these types of songs that just transports listeners back to ...

The Monkees‘ ballads were some of the best of their time. They released many of their best ballads during their 1960s peak. Despite this, they also put out an all-time great ballad in 2016. “I Wanna ...

The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono includes an interview from 1980. During the interview, he was asked about “If I Fell.” “That’s my first attempt at a ...

Emo is a genre which, of course, is known for conveying emotion in its purest form, and while plenty of the scene’s biggest hits — such as “Welcome to the Black Parade,” “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” and ...

With Oscar's Ballads, we are reminded that, behind Oscar Peterson's blazing swing—with his furious pace that launched a thousand riffs, not to mention hundreds of imitators—Peterson's solo ...

Bruno Mars' new Hot 100 leader 'When I Was Your Man' joins Adele's 2011 smash 'Someone Like You' as the only piano-and-vocal-exclusive No. 1s in the chart's 54-year history. By Gary Trust Amid a boom ...

Some stories stand the test of time: Shakespeare's plays, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the Child ballads. If you're unfamiliar with them, they're not for children. They're Scottish and ...

A performer from childhood, he became a versatile singer in the mold of the Irish superstar John McCormack, adept at both ...

George Miller has gone by a lot of names in his 26 years. He went viral as Filthy Frank, igniting the “Harlem Shake” crazy, landed at No. 70 on the Billboard 200 album chart as comedic rapper Pink Guy ...