Scorpions. Uragano tedesco

by Martin Popoff, Stefania Renzetti (Translator)

Partiti con il rock a tinte progressive dell'album di debutto 'Lonesome Crow', i tedeschi Scorpions sono presto diventati una collaudata macchina da guerra capace di mietere enormi successi sia in ambito hard rock che heavy metal, consegnando alla storia un numero notevole di album e di canzoni diventate ormai dei veri e propri capisaldi della musica dura. Sulle note di Speedy's Coming, Dark Lady, Catch Your Train, Virgin Killer, Another Piece Of Meat, Animal Magnetism, Lovedrive, Holiday, The Zoo, Blackout, No One Like You, Rock You Like A Hurricane, Still Loving You e Wind Of Change, e grazie ad approfondite chiacchierate con (tra gli altri) Klaus Meine, Uli Jon Roth, Herman Rarebell, Rudolf Schenker e Matthias Jabs, fino a Ralph Rieckermann, Francis Buchholz e il leggendario manager David Krebs, questo libro vi condurrà lungo tutta la storia della band a partire dagli anni '60 sino a quello che doveva essere il loro disco di addio, il trionfale Sting in the Tail, e il successivo, rocambolesco ritorno sulle scene con Comeblack.

Genres: Music

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

At approximately 7900 (with over 7000 appearing in his books), Martin has unofficially written more record reviews than anybody in the history of music writing across all genres. Additionally, Martin has penned approximately 85 books on hard rock, heavy metal, classic rock and record collecting. He was Editor-In-Chief of the now retired Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Canada’s foremost metal publication for 14 years, and has also contributed to Revolver, Guitar World, Goldmine, Record Collector, bravewords.com, lollipop.com and hardradio.com, with many record label band bios and liner notes to his credit as well. Additionally, Martin has been a regular contractor to Banger Films, having worked for two years as researcher on the award-winning documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, on the writing and research team for the 11-episode Metal Evolution and on the ten-episode Rock Icons, both for VH1 Classic. Additionally, Martin is the writer of the original metal genre chart used in Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey and throughout the Metal Evolution episodes. Martin currently resides in Toronto and can be reached through martinp@inforamp.net or www.martinpopoff.com.

Reviews

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

Love the history, but it gets repetitive as a bunch of snippets of interviews over the years.