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Virgin Killer (Album) by Scorpions

Artist Biography For Scorpions

1 Scorpions Is A German Rock/heavy Metal Band Formed In Hanover In 1965 By Guitarist Rudolf Schenker. Since The Band's Inception Its Musical Style Has Ranged From Hard Rock Heavy Metal And Glam Metal To Soft Rock. The Lineup From 1978 To 1992 Was The Most Successful Incarnation Of The Group And Included Klaus Meine Vocals Rudolf Schenker Rhythm Guitar Matthias Jabs Lead Guitar Francis Buchholz Bass And Herman Rarebell Drums . The Band's Only Continuous Member Has Been Schenker Although Meine Has Appeared On All Of Scorpions' Studio Albums While Jabs Has Been A Consistent Member Since 1978 And Bassist Paweł Mąciwoda And Drummer Mikkey Dee Have Been In The Band Since 2003 And 2016 Respectively. During The Mid-1970s With Guitarist Uli Jon Roth Who Replaced Schenker's Younger Brother Michael Part Of The Lineup The Music Of The Scorpions Was Defined As Hard Rock. After Roth's Departure In 1978 Schenker And Meine Took Control Of The Group Giving Them Almost All The Power To Compose Music And Write Lyrics. Matthias Jabs Joined In 1978 And With The Melodic Rock He Played And The Influence Of Producer Dieter Dierks In The Band The Scorpions Changed Their Sound To Melodic Heavy Metal Mixed With Lyrical "power Rock Ballads" Which Is Evident In The Album Lovedrive 1979 Which Began The Evolution Of The Band's Sound With Recording A Developed Later In Several Of Their Albums. Michael Schenker Also Played On The Lovedrive Album. Over The Next Decade The Band Achieved Influence Approval From Music Critics And Significant Commercial Success With The Albums Animal Magnetism 1980 Blackout 1982 Love At First Sting 1984 The Live Recording World Wide Live 1985 Savage Amusement 1988 Their Best-Selling Compilation Best Of Rockers 'n' Ballads 1989 And Crazy World 1990 All Awarded At Least One Platinum Award In The United States. The Band Has Released Thirteen Consecutive Studio Albums That Were In The Top 10 In Germany One Of Which Reached No. 1 As Well As Three Consecutive Albums That Were In The Top 10 In The Billboard 200 In The United States. Their Latest Studio Album Rock Believer Was Released In February 2022. Scorpions Are Estimated To Have Sold Over 100 Million Records Around The World Making Them One Of The Best-Selling Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Bands. One Of Their Most Recognized Hits Is "Wind Of Change" From Crazy World A Symbolic Anthem Of The Political Changes In Eastern Europe In The Late 1980s And Early 1990s And The Fall Of The Berlin Wall And It Remains As One Of The Best-Selling Singles In The World With Over 14 Million Copies. Two Of The Songs On Their Ninth Studio Album Love At First Sting "Rock You Like A Hurricane" And "Still Loving You" Are Regarded As Some Of The Most Influential And Popular Works Both In Heavy Metal Music And Among Rock Ballads Defined As "rock Anthem" And "a True Hymn Of Love". Full Wikipedia Article Https //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Scorpions_ Band Discography
Lonesome Crow 1972 Fly To The Rainbow 1974 In Trance 1975 Virgin Killer 1976 Taken By Force 1977 Lovedrive 1979 Animal Magnetism 1980 Blackout 1982 Love At First Sting 1984 Savage Amusement 1988 Crazy World 1990 Face The Heat 1993 Pure Instinct 1996 Eye II Eye 1999 Unbreakable 2004 Humanity Hour I 2007 Sting In The Tail 2010 Return To Forever 2015 Rock Believer 2022 2 Scorpions Sometimes Also Scorpions S/T Is A Band From Barreiro Portugal.

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Virgin Killer Is The Fourth Studio Album By The German Rock Band Scorpions. It Was Released In 1976 And Was The First Album Of The Band To Attract Attention Outside Europe. The Original Cover Featuring A Naked Prepubescent Girl Stirred Controversy In The United States And Elsewhere. It Was Subsequently Reissued With A Different Cover. Reception
Virgin Killer Shared The Same Fate As The Other Scorpions Albums Featuring Lead Guitarist Uli Jon Roth It "failed To Attain Any Serious Attention In The United States" But Was "quite Popular In Japan" Where It Peaked At Number 32 In The Charts. The Album Was Another Step In The Band's Shift From Psychedelic Music To Hard Rock. Critic Vincent Jeffries Of Allmusic Contends In Hindsight That The Album Was "the First Of Four Studio Releases That Really Defined The Scorpions And Their Urgent Metallic Sound That Was To Become Highly Influential." He Also Counts The Title Track And "Pictured Life" Among The "all-Time Scorpions Standouts." Among The Band Members Uli Jon Roth Considers Virgin Killer And The Previous Release In Trance As His Favourite Scorpion Albums. Cover Art
The Original Cover Art For The Album Depicted A Naked Prepubescent Girl. The Image Was Designed By Steffan Böhle Who Was Then The Product Manager For RCA Records. Francis Buchholz Was The Bassist For The Band And In An Interview Conducted In Early 2007 Recollects That The Model Depicted On The Cover Was Either The Daughter Or The Niece Of "the Guy Who Did The Cover Design." The Photograph Was Taken By Michael Von Gimbut. The Band's Rhythm Guitarist Rudolf Schenker Offers The Following Description Of The Circumstances Behind The Album Cover. “We Didn't Actually Have The Idea. It Was The Record Company. The Record Company Guys Were Like 'Even If We Have To Go To Jail There's No Question That We'll Release That.' On The Song 'Virgin Killer' Time Is The Virgin Killer. But Then When We Had To Do The Interviews About It We Said 'Look Listen To The Lyrics And Then You'll Know What We're Talking About. We're Using This Only To Get Attention. That's What We Do.' Even The Girl When We Met Her Fifteen Years Later Had No Problem With The Cover. Growing Up In Europe Sexuality Of Course Not With Children Was Very Normal. The Lyrics Really Say It All. Time Is The Virgin Killer. A Kid Comes Into The World Very Naive They Lose That Naiveness And Then Go Into This Life Losing All Of This Getting Into Trouble. That Was The Basic Idea About All Of It. ” In A Separate Interview Schenker Also Notes That He Thought The Cover Art Was A "great Thing" And That He Had "pushed The Band To Really Stay Behind It" As He Felt That People Would "think Differently" When They Looked At The Lyrics And Realized That The Cover Art Was Only Being Used As "a Symbol Of The Lyrics." The Band's Former Lead Guitarist Uli Jon Roth Notes That The Cover Art Of The "old Scorpion Albums" Were "usually Done By Other People." He Has Since Expressed Regret Over The Original Album Cover. “Looking At That Picture Today Makes Me Cringe. It Was Done In The Worst Possible Taste. Back Then I Was Too Immature To See That. Shame On Me — I Should Have Done Everything In My Power To Stop It. The Record Company Came Up With The Idea I Think. The Lyrics Incidentally Were A Take-Off On KISS Whom We Had Just Supported On A Tour. I Was Fooling Around And Played The Riff Of The Song In The Rehearsal Room And Spontaneously Improvised 'cause He's A Virgin Killer!' Trying To Do A More Or Less Way-Off-The-Mark Paul Stanley Impersonation. Klaus Immediately Said 'that's Great! You Should Do Something With It.' Then I Had The Unenviable Task Of Constructing A Meaningful Set Of Lyrics Around The Title Which I Actually Managed To Do To Some Degree. But The Song Has A Totally Different Meaning From What People Would Assume At First. Virgin Killer Is None Other Than The Demon Of Our Time The Less Compassionate Side Of The Societies We Live In Today — Brutally Trampling Upon The Heart And Soul Of Innocence. ” The Cover Generated Controversy And Was Replaced In Some Countries With An Alternate Cover Art Depicting The Band Members. It Would Not Be The Last Time That The Band Attracted Controversy With Their Album Covers. Their Next Album Taken By Force Originally Featured Cover Art That Depicted "children Playing With Guns At A Military Cemetery In France And Some People Found That Offensive." Their 1979 Album Lovedrive Featured A "bizarre Artwork" That Depicts "a Woman On The Back Seat Of A Car With Bubblegum Over Her Breast." Both Covers Were Replaced By An Alternate Design. Vocalist Klaus Meine Explains That The Band's Penchant For Controversial Cover Art Stems From A Desire "to Go Over The Edge" And Not "to Offend Some People Or Make The Headlines That Would Be Stupid." Track Listing Side One
"Pictured Life" Meine Roth Schenker – 3 21 "Catch Your Train" Meine Schenker – 3 32 "In Your Park" Meine Schenker – 3 39 "Backstage Queen" Meine Schenker – 3 10 "Virgin Killer" Roth – 3 41 Side Two
"Hell Cat" Roth – 2 54 "Crying Days" Meine Schenker – 4 36 "Polar Nights" Roth – 5 04 "Yellow Raven" Roth – 4 58 Credits
Klaus Meine – Lead Vocals Ulrich Roth – Lead Guitar Lead Vocals On "Hell-Cat" And "Polar Nights" Rudolf Schenker – Rhythm Guitar Backing Vocals Francis Buchholz – Bass Backing Vocals Rudy Lenners – Drums Percussion Achim Kirschning – Synthesizer Keyboards Dieter Dierks – Arrangement Production