“You Give Me All I Need” by Scorpions

"You Give Me All I Need" comes off Blackout, the eighth studio album from the German hard rockers Scorpions, released on Harvest and EMI in 1982: music by Rudolf Schenker, words by drummer Herman Rarebell, with Dieter Dierks producing and sharing the engineering and mixing with Gerd Rautenbach.

The real drama is in the voice. Klaus Meine had lost his voice while the album was being written and needed surgery on his vocal cords, unsure whether he'd manage to record at all, and the demos were sung by Don Dokken instead, though none of those tapes made the finished album. So there's something triumphant about hearing Meine out front here, with Schenker and Matthias Jabs both playing electric and acoustic guitars, Francis Buchholz on bass, Rarebell adding percussion to his drumming and Schenker on backing vocals.

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