After their debut album released, "Harden My Heart" hit no.3 on the Billboard. The song was quickly on the radio with high strength and solid melody of Rindy Ross' saxophone and powerful vocal.
Queen
White Queen (As It Began)
In their second album, Queen II, Queen finally got a breakthrough with their first hit singles "Seven Sea of Rhye". The album also contained the dark moanful ballad "White Queen (As It Began)".
Queensryche
Silent Lucidity
One of the great metal albums of the late 80's, Empire by Queensryche provided one of the wonderful and high concept ballad of all "Silent Lucidity". The song quickly hit no.9 on The Billboard Hot 100.
Quiet Riot
Thunderbird
Came out in 1983, Quiet Riot still delivered the hard heavy rock metal songs in their most successful album, Metal Health's. The album features the most painful sub-Journey ballary song "Thunderbird"
Quireboys
Too Familiar
Quireboys was one the UK hard rock band that followed the footstep of Faces. Originally called Queerboys, the band changed the spelling and released their first studio album in the early 1990s. "Too Familiar" was the fine rock ballad from their 2004 album, Well Oiled.
I Don't Love You Anymore
"I Don't Love You Anymore" was a power ballad released as a singles in 1990 but never presented in the band's albums. It was issued in 2004's Absolute Rock Ballads Classics 2 and 2006's Absolute Power Ballads, both released in Europe.
King of New York
The UK glam rocker Quireboys released their second album, Lost in Space, in 2000. It contained the rock ballad "King of New York", a lonely-feeling, slow song with piano background.
