{"id":662793,"date":"2026-05-24T19:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/662793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:20:10","slug":"4-rock-ballads-that-still-bring-crowds-to-their-feet-decades-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/662793\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Rock Ballads That Still Bring Crowds to Their Feet Decades Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/tag\/rock-music\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rock<\/a> ballads just never get old. And some still manage to get people on their feet, lighters (or phones) in hand, swaying to their entrancing power. Let\u2019s look at a few rock ballads from years past that still make us want to sing along, shall we?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStairway To Heaven\u201d by Led Zeppelin (1971)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStairway To Heaven\u201d is one of the most classic 1970s ballads around. And even though Led Zeppelin has been dead and gone as a band for decades now, any live cover of this song still gets people on their feet.<\/p>\n<p>Like many of Led Zeppelin\u2019s songs, this gem wasn\u2019t actually released as a single back in 1971, so it never made any waves on the charts. But it made waves among fans, and it\u2019s still the band\u2019s most famous song to this day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDream On\u201d by Aerosmith (1973)<\/p>\n<p>This might just be the power ballad of power ballads. Steven Tyler\u2019s screeching vocals, coupled with the atmospheric energy of this hard rock classic, make it into something that just never seems to get old.<\/p>\n<p>The original release of \u201cDream On\u201d was a bit of a flop upon its release. It wasn\u2019t until the song was re-released in 1976 that it finally made it to the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDust In The Wind\u201d by Kansas (1978)<\/p>\n<p>This soft rock song from Kansas still gets under the skin of listeners today, in a very good way. \u201cDust In The Wind\u201d is a fairly hopeless song about how everything humanity has accomplished is futile, just dust in the wind. But the way Steve Walsh delivers those vocals makes it sound almost hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDust In The Wind\u201d was an international hit back in 1978, peaking at No. 6 on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts in the US. It was also successful in Canada, Belgium, France, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNovember Rain\u201d by Guns N\u2019 Roses (1992)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNovember Rain\u201d might just be Guns N\u2019 Roses\u2019 most famous ballad of their career. They brought the art of the power ballad straight from the 1970s all the way to the 1990s. It\u2019s the kind of song that always gets people on their feet, even today, and it\u2019s more than deserving of a spot on our list of rock ballads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNovember Rain\u201d was a smash hit in 1992, peaking at No. 3 on the Hot 100 and No. 4 on the UK Singles chart.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Michael Putland\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some rock ballads just never get old. And some still manage to get people on their feet, lighters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2617,88,216,2156],"class_list":["post-662793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-classic-rock","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}