QR III (or Quiet Riot III) is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. Released in July 1986, it sticks to the melodic hard rock sound of the previous two albums, Metal Health and Condition Critical, but adds keyboards.
It's the first Quiet Riot album to feature Chuck Wright, formerly of Giuffria, on bass as an official member. He previously played bass on 2 tracks from Metal Health. He departed soon after, but rejoined the band on an on/off basis over for years.
The lead single, "The Wild and the Young"'s accompanying video painted an Orwellian picture of the future, where totalitarian militarists fought to wipe out rock and roll — a reference to the Senate hearings concerning explicit language in metal songs. The video received active rotation on MTV. Another video for the promotional single "Twilight Hotel" only managed to get light rotation.
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