[Night Hides Not]

Other great intros by Clapton:

Motherless Children, Bad Love, Crossroads...aw heck, what song of Clapton's didn't have a great intro?

Addicted to Love, Robert Palmer
Same Old Scene, Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
Long Way There, Little River Band
Slow Down, The Beatles
Come Together, The Beatles
25 or 6 to 4, Chicago
Single Handed Sailor, Dire Straits
Chameleon, Herbie Hancock
Celebration Day, Led Zeppelin
My City Was Gone, Pretenders
The Pusher, Steppenwolf
Night Train, Steve Winwood
Couldn't Stand the Weather, Stevie Ray Vaughan
Lawyers, Guns and Money, Warren Zevon
Siberian Khatru, Yes

All of the above were plucked from my iPhone. Yeah, I know...I never advanced musically beyond the 80s. lol

[A Navy Vet]

Great list although I could argue some weren’t power ballads.

<pThe 80’s if my favorite music era. It had it all from New Wave to Big Hair to one-hit wonders to everything in between.

[Gil4]

My City Was Gone, Pretenders

Not crazy about the rest of the song - it's always a disappointment when that intro isn't followed by Rush.

All of the above were plucked from my iPhone. Yeah, I know...I never advanced musically beyond the 80s. lol

There was far more declining than advancing beyond the 80s.