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Who popularised the 1980s ballad upward key change?
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You see it in classical music all the time, like minor to major changes leading to crescendos or other larger shifts leading to the end of a movement. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin. It's nothing new.
Agree. But mine is a question about style as much as anything. It's use in 80s ballads is distinctive. Same key throughout song then a singular upshift for the last verse / chorus. I'm not referring to music that modulates throughout the whole piece, or makes a change near the end having done it in several other places.
Yes that's exactly the pattern I'm talking about. The upwards change is only used at the end where it's used twice. "I just called" is from 1984 though. Through digging around the earliest I've found the style is in Penny Lane 1967. Am a bit on the fence about that though as the key shifts a lot through the song, but there's a definite key change up for emphasis on the last chorus.