Valentine’s Day may be done and dusted, but that won’t damper the love we have for classic rock. Especially banger love ballads.
From Foreigner's “I Want to Know What Love Is” and Whitesnake’s “Is This Love,” to Guns N’Roses’ “November Rain” and The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows," classic power ballads perfected the art of dramatic devotion.
Radio X, the U.K.'s leading station for indie, rock, and alternative music, understands our passion, as the outlet has just ranked the greatest-ever classic rock love songs, and the results eye-opening. We're betting you'll never guess the No. 1 ranked song.
Beating out Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams," U2's "With or Without You," and ZZ Top's "Gimme All Your Lovin'" is AC/DC’s 1980 head-banger "You Shook Me All Night Long."
Released on the band’s Back in Black album, the hit peaked at No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in late 1980, reaching No. 8 in Australia and No. 38 in the U.K. It was also the first single to feature vocalist Brian Johnson, who said the TK song couldn't have a "whimp" belting out its lyrics.
"The chords and the song are so strong and powerful, you know, you couldn’t have some whimp’s voice just tuttling along behind it," Johnson said about the song in a video published to X and the band's official website. "You really had to go for it. … I think I surprised myself the first time I heard it.”
The album “Back In Black” was recorded 44 years ago this month. In this 1990 interview, Brian talks about “You Shook Me All Night Long,” the first track that he sang in the studio: pic.twitter.com/duMMrZuVxR
— AC/DC (@acdc) April 13, 2024Rounding out Radio X’s top five best-ever love ballads are Bryan Adams’ “Heaven,” Aerosmith’s “Crazy,” The Beatles’ “Something,” and Pat Benetar’s “Love Is a Battlefield.”
Now, that’s good company.
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