HOLIDAY
SCORPIONS
SONGWRITERS: MEINE
KLAUS & SCHENKER RUDOLF
COUNTRY: GERMANY
ALBUM: LOVEDRIVE
LABEL: BREEZE MUSIC
GENRE: HEAVY METAL
YEAR: 1979
Scorpions are a German rock band formed in
1965 in Hanover by 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 managed to take 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.
Lovedrive is the sixth studio album by German
band Scorpions,
released in 1979. Considered by some critics to be the pinnacle of their
career, Lovedrive was a major evolution of the band's sound, exhibiting their
"classic style" that would be later developed over their next few
albums. Lovedrive cemented the "Scorpions formula" of hard rock songs
combined with melodic ballads.
Lovedrive was the band’s first album to be
released by Harvest Records in Europe and Mercury Records in the United States and Canada following the band's departure from RCA. It
proved to be a major commercial breakthrough, reaching Nº 55 on the Billboard Top 200, which
none of their previous five albums had dented at all. The RIAA certified the
record as Gold on 28 May 1986, and the album also proved a breakthrough in the
United Kingdom where it was the first Scorpions album to chart and peaked at Nº
36.
Lovedrive ranked Nº 25 on IGN's 2007 list of
the Top 25 metal albums.
Let me take you far away
You'd like a holiday
Let me take you far away
You'd like a holiday
Exchange the cold days for the sun
Good times and fun
Let me take
you far away
You'd like a holiday
Let me take
you far away
You'd like a holiday
Let me take you far away
You'd like a holiday
Exchange your troubles for some love
Wherever you are
Let me take
you far away
You'd like a holiday
Longing for
the sun you will come
To the island without name
Longing for the sun be welcome
On the island many miles away from home
Be welcome on the island without name
Longing for the sun you will come
To the island many miles away from home
Away
from home.
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