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“Can't Live Without You” by Scorpions
From the album Blackout (1982)
“Can't Live Without You” by Scorpions appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1990 and 2010. It was first released in 1982 on the album Blackout. Its best result is #360 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,867 classic rock song of all time.
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"Can't Live Without You" comes off Blackout, the Scorpions' eighth studio album, released in 1982 on Harvest and EMI, with Rudolf Schenker writing the music and Klaus Meine the words. That Meine sings it at all is the story: he lost his voice while the album was being written and needed surgery on his vocal cords, with no promise he'd be able to record. Demos were even cut with Don Dokken singing, though none of those takes made the album.
Meine came back, and here he's out front with the band stacked behind him: Schenker and Matthias Jabs both on electric and acoustic guitars, Francis Buchholz on bass, Herman Rarebell on drums and percussion, and Schenker, Jabs and Rarebell adding backing vocals. Dieter Dierks produced it, and it's lean, hard-charging German metal.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
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All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 360 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 2010 | 500 | 97.9 The Loop | The Loop USO Rock 'N' Roll 500 (2010) | 500 |
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