Sunday, time for a classic.
The lead single from the QUIET RIOT'S fifth studio album "QR III", "The Wild And The Young" is a stadium hymn to the energy of youth. A great tune to end the week and pay some tribute to Frankie Banali, who died from the disease pancreatic cancer on August 20, 2020, at age 68. This left Banali as the second member of the classic Metal Health-era QUIET RIOT lineup to have died, following Kevin DuBrow in November 2007.
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"QR III" (or "Quiet Riot III") was released in 1986 on Pasha/CBS. It is the last album to feature lead singer Kevin DuBrow until the 1993 album "Terrified". Despite the record's name, this is actually the band's fifth studio album. However, it is their third major label/worldwide release. The band's first two releases were also titled "Quiet Riot" and "Quiet Riot II", suggesting this serves as a third self-titled album.
Following the massive success of "Metal Health" and the more modest reception of "Condition Critical" (which failed to duplicate "Metal Health's" success, but still went top 20 and receive a platinum certification), sales of "QRIII" were even lower, reaching only No. 31 on the US charts and has yet to achieve any certification at all. It marked QUIET RIOT'S final plunge away from stardom as the band's following releases would not enter the charts at all.
This marks the first QUIET RIOT album to feature Chuck Wright, formerly of GIUFFRIA, on bass as an official member - prior to this, he had performed some uncredited bass work on the band's earlier albums. He would rejoin the band on an on/off basis over the years and is in the current version of the group.
Enjoy today's tune.
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