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 ...

I don’t think a single baby boomer out there managed to miss these classic rock ballads in 1971. Even if you weren’t much of a rock or ballad fan, these songs were virtually inescapable on the radio.

In 1984, Lionel Richie scored one of the biggest hits of his career. We’re obviously talking about the classic ballad Hello, which reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and stayed ...