“Dynamite” by Scorpions

"Dynamite" goes off on Blackout, the eighth studio album by the German hard rockers Scorpions, which Harvest and EMI released in 1982, and it comes from a record that very nearly lost its singer. Klaus Meine's voice gave out while the band were writing the album, and he had surgery on his vocal cords without knowing whether he'd be able to record at all. Demos were cut with Don Dokken singing, but none of them made it onto the finished LP.

Meine came through, and here he's out front on lead vocals, and the whole band, Meine included, piles onto the backing vocals. Rudolf Schenker wrote the music, and Meine and drummer Herman Rarebell wrote the words. Schenker and Matthias Jabs play the guitars, electric and acoustic, Francis Buchholz plays bass, and Dieter Dierks produced, engineered and mixed it.

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