I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner

[TheTecknician]

For those who weren't born or don't remember and those that do, it's an incredible forty years since this song reached Number 1 in the UK. A bit of a classic really. I'm not at all keen on power ballads by and large but IWTKWLI really hits home.

I also like Feel Like Makin' Love by Bad Company and All I Need by Beth Nielsen Chapman.

Any other power ballad favourites?

Alone - Heart...incredible song
Africa - Toto
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

I've put on my watch list so I can make a playlist later..😆

Came on to say Always by Bon Jovi, Bed of Roses by Bon Jovi, I'll Be There for You by Bon Jovi (okay there's a theme).

It's all coming back to me now - Celine dion
2 out of 3 ain't bad - meatloaf.
Without you - Nilsson

The final countdown - Europe
Love is a battlefield, Pat benatar
Battle Lines - John wetton

What it Takes - Aerosmith

Think Twice - Celine Dion (tiny bit embarrassing but I love this. Have it on CD single 😄)

My break up song was Here I Go Again On My Own" by Whitesnake

(yes, D, I know you lied both about me and to me)

My favourite slightly forgotten/obscure/niche power ballad is You're the Inspiration by Chicago.

Making Love Out of Nothing At All - Air Supply (though I discovered it later in life, would probably have been a childhood fave)
I’d Do Anything for Love - Meatloaf

Ain’t no body (loves me better) Chaka Khan

@Whimsicalgrape I'll be There for You by Bon Jovi, good shout.

My DH plays in an 80's hair rock band, I get to listen, sing and dance along to a fair few of these every week. .just looking at his set list now...

Comfortably Numb
Sweet Child of Mine
Don't Stop Believing
Final Countdown
Jump
Purple Rain

Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar.
The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics
Sweet.
All I want is You by U2
Summer of 69 and Heaven by Bryan Adams

Hold the Line , Toto, love that song

Some of my favourites as I can't pick just one!

On My Own - Patti Labelle
When love and hate collide- Def Leppard
Bed of Roses - Bon Jovi
Almaz - Randy Crawford
To be with you - mr big
One moment in time - Whitney
Something inside so strong - Labour siffre
St Elmo's fire - John Parr

Oh god there's loads I love

Whitesnake - Here Go Again
Foreigner- Urgent

This thread is so nostalgic!

Iris- Goo Goo Dolls

Love that one

Toto are touring next month, I'm going just because I want to see Africa live, and then I found out Christopher Cross is supporting!
Feel free to mock, I'll be singing at the top of my lungs 😆

Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl like You
Cold Chisel - Forever Now
Hunters & Collectors - Throw your arms around me

U2
With or Without You, I Still Haven't Found What I'm looking For, Where the Streets Have No Name

I love that Mick Jones wrote IWKWLI for Ann Dexter Jones, who is now his wife …and is also Mark Ronson’s Mum!

Bon Jovi are the soundtrack to my youth

Don Henley, Boys of Summer. Used to play it loud in my old convertible and sing along. Naff thing to do, didn’t care

That's my alarm clock 😂

I don’t often listen to Black Velvet by Alannah Myles on the big old fashioned 1970s floor speakers stereo system in the living room…
but when I do, so do the other people in my postcode 😁

So many good ones here! I like Whitesnake Here I go Again