As soon as he answered his phone, Clayton Carmen knew he was getting bad news. It was March 2024, and by then, nearly a decade had passed since he had seen his father, Eric Carmen — the power-pop ...

Eric Carmen wrote and performed some of the biggest power ballads of the 1970s and '80s. Many of them became famous from the movies they helped score. Carmen wrote eight top 40 hits; his best-known ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Lyndhurst native and Brush High School graduate Eric Carmen, who passed away this week at the age of 74, was a singer-songwriter and frontman for a band, The Raspberries, that found ...