Crazy World by Scorpions

Crazy World, the eleventh studio album from Hanover's Scorpions, came out on Vertigo on 6 November 1990, and it's the first since Fly to the Rainbow in 1974 that Dieter Dierks didn't produce, with Keith Olsen taking over. It's also the last one from the classic lineup: Klaus Meine singing, Rudolf Schenker and Matthias Jabs on guitars, Francis Buchholz on bass and Herman Rarebell on drums. Buchholz, who left in October 1992, gets his only Scorpions writing credit here, on "Kicks After Six".

Olsen gives the band a slick, punchy, American radio shine on rockers like "Tease Me Please Me" and "Hit Between the Eyes", but the ballad "Wind of Change" is what the world remembers, a song that became an anthem for the changes sweeping Eastern Europe and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It reached No. 4 in the US, and the album became the band's only number one in Germany.

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