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Blackout is the eighth studio album by the German rock band Scorpions. It was released in 1982 by Harvest and EMI Records. In the US, the album was certified gold on 24 June 1982 and platinum on 8 March 1984 by RIAA. [6] Rolling Stone ranked Blackout as 73rd on their list of "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" in 2017. [7]
The band have released 19 studio albums, six live albums, 13 video albums, 29 compilation albums, one cover album, 92 singles and 43 music videos. They have sold between 75 and 100 million records worldwide. [1] [2]
"No One Like You" first appeared on the band's 1982 album Blackout. It was one of three hit singles from the record. The track also appeared on multiple greatest hits-type albums including: Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads, Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions, and Box of Scorpions. A video was shot for the song in San Francisco.
Love at First Sting is notable in that it was one of the first digitally recorded heavy metal records ever released. It became the group's most successful album in the US, where it peaked at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1984, [ 11 ] and went double-platinum by the end of the year, reaching triple-platinum status in 1995. [ 12 ]
Blackout spawned two singles: "No One Like You" and "Can't Live Without You". Gaining in popularity from the success of Blackout, the Scorpions performed to over 375,000 fans on Day 2 at the three-day US Festival concert held in San Bernardino, California during Memorial Day Weekend of 1983. The concert was aired live on MTV, giving the band ...
World Wide Live is a live album by German rock band Scorpions, released in 1985. The original audio recording was produced by Dieter Dierks. A VHS was released at the same time with footage of Scorpions' world tour. The live album was originally released as a 2LP vinyl set, in a gatefold-sleeve, and a cassette.
The album cover was created by Storm Thorgerson of the design firm Hipgnosis and, as with earlier Scorpions album sleeves, courted controversy. However, unlike several of their previous album sleeves the controversy did not result in the cover being replaced with an alternate sleeve. Recalling the cover photo, Thorgerson remarked, "That one was ...
Crazy World Tour Live... Berlin 1991 is a 1991 live video by German band Scorpions. The concert was recorded in Berlin, Germany. [1] "Bad Boys Running Wild" "Hit Between the Eyes" "Tease Me Please Me" (VideoClip) "I Can't Explain" "The Zoo" "Don't Believe Her" (VideoClip) "Rhythm of Love" "Crazy World" "Can‘t Live Without You" "Blackout ...