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?

Another by Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl Like You.

Chain Fleetwood Mac
You Do Something To Me Paul Weller

Kayleigh by Marillion would have been my favourite from that era.

King of Wishful Thinking - Go West

So many great tracks here

The Scorpions - Still loving you
Alice Cooper - Poison

I was an enormous fan of the Walker Brothers in the 60s! I bought all their albums, and managed to see them perform in the then Hammersmith Odeon in 1965, when they were the support act to Roy Orbison along with Lulu.

Oh, happy days!

Thanks for this, just listened to this on Spotify, sublime x

@PeskyRooks it's good isn't it!!

Oh yeah and Show Me Heaven by Maria McKee

Tunnel of love ~ Bruce
Every rose has its thorn - Poison
Favourites but not listened for a long time - so happy for this thread 😊

Aww I remember making a tape of this for my dad, taping it off the radio for his birthday, either this or the song by The cars…I was 7

“Love lift us up where we belong” by Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warner for me. On repeat. Though in retrospect, I don’t think it played too many times…

Vixen. Edge of a broken heart

Aretha and George I Knew You Were Waiting for Me

Elton and George Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me

Gloria is a great song!

@Birthdaycakewithwine
Finally someone mentions Kyrie by Mr Mister.... this is my belt out song when driving alone (just have to ignore the religious message!)

That song reminds me of a teenage boyfriend ❤️

Suddenly - Angry Anderson

Nothing Else Matters by Metallica

And don't forget ELO! so many good songs, including Turn to Stone, Telephone Line, Can't Get it Out of my Head.

I hear they are doing a farewell tour, which I would love to see, but in UK only, and I'm in Canada.

Maybe not a power ballad but Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac is my secret belter

Thank you for giving me an earworm OP - I remember all the words to that song!

Def Leppard - when love and hate collide

Probably been mentioned but

Power of love by Huey Lewis and the news

Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
I Should’ve Known Better - Jim Diamond
Broken Wings - Mr Mister
Rosanna - Toto
See The Day - Dee C Lee