Exactly 60 years ago today, on March 11, 1966, a song that was widely embraced at the time was the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. While 'The Ballad of the Green Berets' by Staff Sergeant Barry ...

“Power ballad.” The phrase sounds like an oxymoron. Rather, it’s shorthand for the type of song that has, over time, deftly avoided definition. To wit, an anthology titled “The Very Best of Power ...

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 ...

Belt it out and let it go, this is the epic power ballad that aligns with your zodiac sign. Jeffrey Colson/NYPost Belt it out, set it free and put your lighters in the air my babies, let’s talk power ...

What are some of the best ballads by big grunge artists? Although grunge is known mainly as a sullen, dark style of music with a droning atmosphere and emotionally-charged lyrics, the bands we ...

The Rolling Stones gained an occasionally well-earned reputation for being the bad boys of rock and roll. But had they only shown that side of themselves in their music, it’s doubtful they would have ...

If there was one thing that Jac Schaeffer always knew was going to be part of the witches’ brew that became “Agatha All Along,” it was music. The showrunner had a lot of different ideas on what form ...

When we think of children's street songs we think of light-hearted rhymes that go along with their games but here in Ireland there was one exception - "Weile Weile Waile"! We take a deeper look at ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...