“Lady Starlight” by Scorpions

Scorpions put "Lady Starlight" on Animal Magnetism, the German hard rock band's seventh album, in 1980, and it's a one-off in their whole catalog: as of 2018 no other Scorpions song had been fitted with a string section and orchestral winds. Klaus Meine wrote the words and sings them, Rudolf Schenker wrote the music and plays guitar and acoustic guitar, Matthias Jabs adds guitar, Francis Buchholz plays bass and Herman Rarebell drums.

Dieter Dierks produced and David Green engineered, and the rest of the credits read like a chamber orchestra's roll call: Adele Armin and Victoria Richards on violin, Paul Armin on viola, Richard Armin on cello, Charles Elliott on double bass, Melvin Berman on oboe, and George Stimpson and Brad Warnaar on French horn. For a band built on volume, it's a bold, grand gesture.

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