SITTING ALONE BY MY WINDOW
COUNTING THE STARS OF THE NIGHT
(WAITING , HATING)
SITTING ALONE BY MY WINDOW
COUNTING THE STARS OF THE NIGHT
(WAITING , HATING)
DARK LADY
is the third
studio album
by German
Rock band
The Scorpions
released by
RCA Records
in 1975.
The music was a departure
from the progressive
rock of the two
previous albums.
Instead,
the album has a hard rock sound
of shorter and tighter arrangements
with which the band
would achieve their
global success and fame.
Extended suites
in the vein of songs such as
"Lonesome Crow"
and
"Fly to the Rainbow"
are absent altogether.
This was the first of
two studio albums
to feature drummer
Rudy Lenners,
and the first album
by the band to
contain the
now-famous logo
and
controversial artwork.
The original version
of the album cover
photographed by
Michael von Gimbut
was censored for
clearly showing the
cover model's
exposed breast
hanging down towards
the guitar.
Later releases
blacked out the breast
so that it is not visible.
This is the first of many
Scorpions album covers
to have been censored.
The band's former
lead guitarist
Uli Jon Roth
claimed he may have
"come up with the idea
to do the thing
with the guitar
for the cover of
In Trance"
However, in a
2008 interview
Roth claimed that
early Scorpions
album covers
in general were
"the record company's idea
but we certainly didn't object.
And so shame on us.
Those covers were probably
the most embarrassing thing
I've ever been involved with.
" He did,
though, classify the
In Trance
cover as
"borderline".
The White Stratocaster shown
on the cover belonged
to Roth
and he can be seen
playing the same guitar
on the cover of
the Electric Sun album
Fire Wind.
This is the guitar that
Roth used on all
subsequent Scorpions
and
Electric Sun
albums
on which he played.
This was the band's
first album to feature
the band's name
written in the
now-familiar font
used on nearly all
subsequent
album covers
as well as their
first collaboration with
producer
Dieter Dierks.
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