SCORPIONS - Love At First Sting Album's 30th Anniversary Celebrated On InTheStudio; Klaus Meine, Rudolph Schenker Interviewed
February 11, 2014, 10 years ago
North American syndicated rock radio show and website InTheStudio: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the SCORPIONS' Love At First Sting album this week.
With the current Winter Olympics focusing the world’s attention on the post-Communist Era Russia, it is fascinating to be reminded by members of Germany’s Scorpions just how much rock music has changed the world. And they should know better than anyone: they were there, living it every day twenty-five years ago.
“We were not proud of our country and our parents were not proud of our country,” says Scorpions lead singer Klaus Meine.” They just survived the (Second World) War. So rock music is the way we got out. And starting as young musicians playing English and American music, it was in a way something like an attempt to be part of the world community, to escape a place where you feel this burden.”
In The Studio gets rocked like a hurricane by the Scorpions on the 30th anniversary of their biggest selling album,Love At First Sting. The Scorpions from Hanover, Germany had been the decade-long international long shot when their 1982 album Blackout blew up Top 10 in the US, powered by the #1 rock radio track 'No One Like You'. The Scorpions’ follow-up album Love At First Sting two years later soared to #6 on the Billboard album chart with triple platinum sales while delivering a blitzkreig of rock anthems including 'Rock You Like A Hurricane', 'Big City Nights', and the signature power ballad 'Still Loving You'.
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