3 STORIES
1981 · 80S
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, USA
The most-sung chorus in American rock began as something a worried father said down a payphone line to his broke, failing son in Los Angeles…
1981 · 80S
"Open Arms" is the power ballad that arguably invented the modern power ballad — a slow-burning, piano-led plea written by Steve Perry and J…
1983 · 80S
A power ballad written on a tour bus at three in the morning, "Faithfully" is one of the strangest love songs in arena-rock history: a medit…