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“I can sing it in the original key, with no backing tapes at all. I sing it at every show”: The smash hit ’80s power ballad that wouldn’t die

Thursday January 1, 2026. 11:00 AM , from Keyboard Magazine

And after 30 years, the singer is still waiting for a reunion with his old band

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