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?

Nothings gonna stop us now - Starship
My all time favourite song

You’re the voice - John Farnham (I think)

St Elmo’s fire - John Parr

Both fabulous, for a slower power ballard - Heaven can wait by Meatloaf - always makes me want to cry 😢

You're thinking of two songs. If You Leave Me Now by Chicago and Don't Go by KC and The Sunshine Band. IYLMN is one of my top ten favourite songs, recorded before David Foster got hold of Chicago and turned them into a clone of the Foster sound.

Everything I do. Bryan Adams
Sometimes When We Touch. Dan Hill.

And Can't Live Nilsson.

Can someone genuinely put all these together and to a playlist on Spotify? Got a big drive at the weekend 😀

Has anyone mentioned Hotel California yet?

It's got to be Take My Breath Away by Berlin (wasn't it no. 1 for ages when Top Gun came out?)
Closely followed by Heart Alone

One of my all time favourite memes.

Being a teenager in the 80s was fantastic, I feel blessed!

I love Thought I'd died and gone to heaven by Bryan Adams.

Also Def Leppard, when the love and hate collide

@Tortielady I listened to Roy Orbisons 'she's a mystery' the other day and what really struck me was the opening chords and beat, it's so beautiful and sounds very 90s whereas i thought it was from the 1960s. So I googled it and it turns out it was written by Bono and the Edge in 1989. Maybe everyone knew that but it was news to me.

Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
You Give Good Love - Whitney Houston
Hard For Me To Say I’m Sorry - Chicago
Alone - Heart
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Heaven - Bryan Adams (played over and over when the boy I believed I was madly in love with went out with a friend)

not sure if they are classed as power ballads but great belting out songs

Roy orbison, or was it the travelling wilburys? Anyway, anything you want, you got it! will always be a tune

I love all these songs!!
Adding them to my playlist and remembering my youth !

Bit obscure but this thread has made me remember Clouds Across the Moon RAH Band
My first serious boyfriend (later became my second husband) had moved away for work and he made this our song. It was 1985 and I was 18.
Seems like both yesterday and another lifetime

I absolutely adore this song. Goosebumps when I hear it.

Other fave power ballads of mine:

Heart - What About Love
Whitesnake- Is This Love
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Whitesnake- Here I go again
Celine Dion - Power Of Love
Roxy Music- More Than This
Roxy Music- Slave To Love
Cutting Crew - Died In Your Arms Tonight
Simple Minds- Alive And Kicking
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Cher - One By One

Without You is its title😉

Thank you💕

Michael Bolton - Steel Bars
Michael Bolton - Forever isn't Long Enough (beautiful beautiful song)
Phil Collins - Everyday
Phil Collins - Take Me Home
Phil Collins - Can't Stop Loving You
Joan Armatrading - Love And Affection

Not remotely a power ballad, but I've now got The Crunch by the RAH Band as an earworm now.

And with all this talk of 80s discos, I'll be on the floor in a moment to see if I can still make it all through Oops Upside Your Head

Chris De Burgh - I've Been Missing You
Chris Issac - Wicked Game
A-ha - Living a Boy's Adventure Tale

That always makes me chuckle
'She's like the wind - smelly and embarrassing ' 😄 Sorry.

FreeBird by Lynyrd Skynyrd (extended version)

Richard Marx - Endless Summer Nights
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love

All I want to do is make love to you by Heart