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twilightsglow
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What's on it?
ewil
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twilightsglow
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:shock: :shock: :shock: Whoa!
twilightsglow
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And it's a little girl too :shock:ewil said:
twilightsglow
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What year is it from? They must have pissed off a lot of people with a cover like that. :shock:ewil said:
twilightsglow
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I thought so :shock:ewil said:
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SW: Also revolutionary were some of the Scorpions album covers, done by Hypgnosis, many of which were banned here in the U.S. When "Love Drive" first came out here, they had to put red wrapping around the album to hide the cover artwork [which I consider the greatest album cover ever! The label eventually changed the cover but the original cover is now available on CD] and the original artwork for "Virgin Killer" was never available here in the states [only as a Japanese import]. Those album covers were very hardcore for the late '70s! Did you have a lot of influence on that artwork?
HR: Yes. In my days living in England I became close friends with some of the people from the designing company Hipgnosis, one of the designers was a guy named Storm, you probably seen many of his covers, from the Led Zeppelin to Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"...and this is something we wanted to have with the Scorpions. I remember talking to Storm with Klaus Meine, we just had the departure of our long-time guitarist Uli Roth and were working on a new album, we told Storm we wanted an album cover that was highly sophisticated, classic, but at the same time shocking. And he came up with this great cover for "Love Drive," with the chewing gum. And it became cover of the year for Playboy Magazine in 1979. As you know, the American record company couldn't release it in the normal packaging so they had to put red vinyl wrapping to hide it.
HR: Yes. In my days living in England I became close friends with some of the people from the designing company Hipgnosis, one of the designers was a guy named Storm, you probably seen many of his covers, from the Led Zeppelin to Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"...and this is something we wanted to have with the Scorpions. I remember talking to Storm with Klaus Meine, we just had the departure of our long-time guitarist Uli Roth and were working on a new album, we told Storm we wanted an album cover that was highly sophisticated, classic, but at the same time shocking. And he came up with this great cover for "Love Drive," with the chewing gum. And it became cover of the year for Playboy Magazine in 1979. As you know, the American record company couldn't release it in the normal packaging so they had to put red vinyl wrapping to hide it.
twilightsglow
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The Love Drive one is funny 
twilightsglow
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Yeah, they've got some fast rockers.ewil said:Yeah
Never happened to me... :err:
Never really listened Scorpions much, only the ballads.
Do they play something else than loveballads?
I've got 2 of their albums; there's only a couple ballads on each one. The only songs that ever get played on the radio are the ballads. :|
Rockhardchick666
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wow, you guys do need me and ewil to fill up these thingys
ewil
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I have just the picture of them being like the Whitesnake: love, love, lovety, love... blaaahh... :|twilightsglow said:Yeah, they've got some fast rockers.
The only songs that ever get played on the radio are the ballads. :|
Maybe they sell the Virgin Killer CD still with this beautiful sleeve... :err:
LOL
twilightsglow
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Hey RHC666Rockhardchick666 said:wow, you guys do need me and ewil to fill up these thingys
