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* Music/{{Queen}} had "Save Me", "Jealousy", "All Dead, All Dead", "White Queen (As It Began), "We Are the Champions", "Lily of the Valley". "Sail Away Sweet Sister", "Las Palabras de Amor", "Teo Toriatte", "Is This the World We Created?", "Who Wants to Live Forever" and "These Are the Days of Our Lives", to name a few.

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* Music/{{Queen}} had "Save Me", "Jealousy", "All Dead, All Dead", "White Queen (As It Began), "We Are the Champions", "Lily of the Valley". "Sail Away Sweet Sister", "Las Palabras de Amor", "Teo Toriatte", "Is This the World We Created?", "Who Wants to Live Forever" Forever", "The Show Must Go On", and "These Are the Days of Our Lives", to name a few.
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* One intriguing ancestor of the style is the 1963 {{Instrumental}} "Our Winter Love" by pianist Bill Pursell (a #9 hit in the US). It's a fairly standard GenreMotif/EasyListening tune, except a fuzztone guitar shows up about a minute into the song and starts doubling the melody riff.
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* Music/ArchEnemy - "Reason to Believe" from the band's tenth album ''Will to Power'' is a primarily clean-sung power ballad which showcases [[Creator/AlissaWhiteGluz Alissa White-Gluz]]'s vocal range.[[note]]Although there are still death growls in the song.[[/note]] The other songs on that album follow their usual Main/MelodicDeathMetal style.

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* Music/ArchEnemy Music/{{Arch Enemy|Band}} - "Reason to Believe" from the band's tenth album ''Will to Power'' is a primarily clean-sung power ballad which showcases [[Creator/AlissaWhiteGluz Alissa White-Gluz]]'s vocal range.[[note]]Although there are still death growls in the song.[[/note]] The other songs on that album follow their usual Main/MelodicDeathMetal style.
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** Music/VNVNation's "Endless Skies" from ''Matter + Form'', "Nova" from ''Automatic'', "Teleconnect 1 and 2" from ''Transnational'', and "Collide" from ''Noire''.

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** Music/VNVNation's "Endless Skies" from ''Matter + Form'', "Nova" from ''Automatic'', "Teleconnect 1 and 2" from ''Transnational'', and "Collide" from ''Noire''.''Noire'', and "At Horizon's End" from ''Electric Sun''.
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* Music/OTown's "[[https://youtu.be/TG8IkUoZ6j0?si=tZDIhKIiXl3rfb5M All Or Nothing]]".
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* Music/{{Rammstein}}'s "Amour", "Ohne Dich", "Klavier", and "Nebel".

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* Music/{{Rammstein}}'s "Amour", "Ohne Dich", "Klavier", "Nebel" and "Nebel".the most recent "Zeit".
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* Kid Moxie & Maps - "[[https://youtu.be/iV9xYYN0v5c?si=uDIRZg-N_sR-vMz8 Better Than Electric]]"
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** Steve Perry's solo hit "Oh Sherrie" alternates between power ballad-ish verses and a more uptempo chorus, but somehow still gets airplay on "Soft Hits" stations.

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** Steve Perry's biggest solo hit hit, "Oh Sherrie" Sherrie", alternates between power ballad-ish verses and a more uptempo chorus, but somehow still gets airplay on "Soft Hits" stations.stations. A purer example of his is another hit from the same album, "Foolish Heart".
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* An unexpected proto-example is the 1972 Music/{{Carpenters}} hit "Goodbye to Love". It mostly just sounds like one of their typical ballads, but it starts out with just vocal and piano before the ProgressiveInstrumentation kicks in, and halfway through there's a fairly heavy fuzztone guitar solo that gives the song a bit of an extra bite. There's a also a TruckDriversGearChange toward the end, and the guitar returns for the long fade-out section.

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* An unexpected proto-example is the 1972 Music/{{Carpenters}} hit "Goodbye to Love". It mostly just sounds like one of their typical ballads, but it starts out with just vocal and piano before the ProgressiveInstrumentation kicks in, and halfway through there's a fairly heavy fuzztone guitar solo that gives the song a bit of an extra bite. There's a also a TruckDriversGearChange toward the end, and the guitar returns for the long fade-out section. Their 1975 version of Music/NeilSedaka's "Solitaire" lacks the guitar, but has most of the other Power Ballad staples (especially the drums).

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