“In Trance” by Scorpions

"In Trance" is the title track of the Scorpions' third album, released on RCA in 1975: a Rudolf Schenker tune with words by Klaus Meine, who sings lead while Schenker, Uli Jon Roth and Francis Buchholz stack up the backing vocals. Schenker and Roth play the guitars, Buchholz the bass and Rudy Lenners the drums, on the first of his two albums with the German band, and guest Achim Kirschning adds keyboards. Dieter Dierks produced, engineered and mixed it.

Here the Scorpions shook off the prog sprawl of their first two albums. The long suites in the mould of "Lonesome Crow" are gone, replaced by shorter, tighter hard rock, the sound that would take them around the world. It also debuted their logo, and its sleeve kicked off a long line of Scorpions covers that ran into the censors.

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