Scorpions - 'Blackout' (Coming Home Live)

I realize I missed a day
But I'm too wrecked to care anyway
I look around and see this face
What the hell have I lost my taste
Don't want to find out
Just want to cut out

My head explodes, my ears ring
I can't remember just where I've been
The last thing that I recall
I got lost in a deep black hole
Don't want to find out
Just want to cut out

Blackout
I really had a blackout

Blackout
I really had a blackout

Blackout
I really had a blackout

Blackout
I really had a blackout

I grab my things and make my run
On the way out, another one
Would like to know before I stop
Did I make it or did I flop
Don't want to find out
Just want to get out

Blackout
I really had a blackout

Blackout
I really had a blackout

Blackout
I really had a blackout

Blackout
I really had a blackout

Don't want to find out
Just want to get out

Blackout
I really had a blackout!

«Like many youngsters born in post-war Germany, Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker were influenced by the music and other life-enhancing delights imported into their homeland by American GI's - Elvis Presley, chewing gum, blue jeans and leather jackets, but most of all rock 'n' roll.

From an early age, both of them had an irresistible urge to grab a guitar and step into the limelight. In the early 1960s the Beatles sparked off the beat revolution.

By the mid-1960s Klaus Meine and Rudolf Schenker, both of whom were blessed with understanding parents, had also taken to the stage with their beat groups.

In 1965 Rudolf Schenker started up the Scorpions in Hanover. Rudolf’s younger brother Michael Schenker was, like Matthias Jabs, smitten by beat music and the burgeoning rock culture.

Guitarist and songwriter Rudolf Schenker’s earliest influences were the raw riffs of bands like The Yardbirds, Pretty Things and Spooky Tooth, who in those days were regarded as the real hard rockers.

At New Year 1970, the younger Schenker brother Michael, who despite his youth had already established himself as an outstanding guitarist, left the Hanover-based group Copernicus, along with singer and composer Klaus Meine, to join Rudolf Schenker's Scorpions.

Rudolf Schenker and Klaus Meine teamed up to form the accomplished Schenker / Meine songwriting duo, so laying the foundations for a spectacular success story.»

Κάπως έτσι ξεκίνησε πριν από εξήντα έτη, το μακρινό 1965, η ιστορία των Scorpions σύμφωνα με την επίσημη ιστοσελίδα της Γερμανικής μπάντας. Μία ιστορία που "κρατά" μέχρι και τις ημέρες μας με είκοσι full length albums (συν live albums, συλλογές, singles κλπ).

Τα εξηκοστά τους γενέθλια τα εόρτασαν με συναυλία στην πόλη που ξεκίνησαν όλα (Ανόβερο), η οποία πραγματοποιήθηκε στις 5 Ιουλίου 2025. Η εμφάνισή τους ηχογραφήθηκε και θα αποτελέσει το περιεχόμενου του live album "Coming Home Live", που θα κυκλοφορήσει στα μέσα του τελευταίου φθινοπωρινού μήνα (14 Νοεμβρίου 2025) σε διπλό cd, διπλό βινύλιο και σε κάποιες άλλες εκδόσεις...

Δελτίο τύπου: «The Scorpions celebrated their 60th anniversary as a band with a special arena show in the city where it all began - Hanover, Germany. On July 5, they played their most iconic songs from 60 years of band history under the motto “Coming Home”.

The live recording of this monumental, sold-out show will be available as a live album later this year - for the 45,000 fans who were able to experience this historic moment in person, and for all fans around the world who want to celebrate with the band and relive their own memories from the last six decades.»

Το τραγούδι "Blackout" το γνωρίσαμε στον ομότιτλο δίσκο της Γερμανικής μπάντας που κυκλοφόρησε τον Μάρτιο του 1982 (το εναρκτήριο μουσικό κομμάτι). Την μουσική σύνθεση υπογράφει ο Rudolf Schenker, ενώ τους στίχους έγραψαν ο Klaus Meine, ο Herman Rarebell και η Sonja Kittelsen...