The Scorpions : Blackout (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

GIRL,

IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME 

THAT WE'VE BEEN APART

MUCH TOO LONG

FOR A MAN

WHO NEEDS LOVE

Blackout

 is the eighth 

studio album

 by the German

 Rock band

 The Scorpions 

It was released in 1982 

by Harvest

 and 

EMI Records.

In the US,

 the album was 

certified gold

 on June,24th 1982 

and platinum on 

March, 8th 1984

 by RIAA. 

Rolling Stone ranked

 Blackout 

as 73rd 

on their list of 

"The 100 Greatest

 Metal Albums of

 All Time" 

in 2017.

Background

After losing his voice

 during the writing

 of the album, 

lead singer 

Klaus Meine 

had to undergo

surgery on his

 vocal cords 

and was uncertain

 as to whether or not

 he would be able

 to record. 

Demos of the material 

were recorded 

with singer 

Don Dokken 

from Dokken, 

a then-unknown band 

from Los Angeles. 

However, 

none of those

 recordings

 are featured 

on the album 

and Dokken 

is only credited 

with backing vocals.

A self-portrait of artist 

Gottfried Helnwein

 is featured on the cover

 of the album. 

Schenker portrays

 this character in the

 "No One Like You" 

music video.

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