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Lovedrive
Sign in to saveLovedrive is the sixth studio album by the German rock band Scorpions, released in 1979. Considered by some critics to be the pinnacle of their career, Lovedrive was a major evolution of the band's sound, exhibiting their "classic style" that would be later developed over their next few albums. Lovedrive cemented the "Scorpions formula" of hard rock songs combined with melodic ballads.
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Key facts
- Album.name
- Lovedrive
- Album.type
- studio
- Album.artist
- Scorpions
- Album.cover
- Scorpions-album-lovedrive.jpg
- Album.caption
- Cover art by Hipgnosis
- Album.released
- 25 February 1979
- Album.studio
- Dierks Studios, Stommeln, West Germany
- Album.genre
- Hard rock, heavy metal
- Album.length
- 36:49
- Album.label
- Harvest
- Album.producer
- Dieter Dierks
- Album.prev_title
- Taken by Force
- Album.prev_year
- 1977
- Album.next_title
- Animal Magnetism
- Album.next_year
- 1980
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 2190
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- publication date
- 1979-02-25
- title
- Lovedrive
- number of parts of this work
- 8
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Lovedrive is the sixth studio album by the German rock band Scorpions, released in 1979. Considered by some critics to be the pinnacle of their career, Lovedrive was a major evolution of the band's sound, exhibiting their "classic style" that would be later developed over their next few albums. Lovedrive cemented the "Scorpions formula" of hard rock songs combined with melodic ballads.
Lovedrive was the band’s first album to be released by Harvest Records in Europe and Mercury Records in the United States and Canada following the band's departure from RCA. It proved to be a major commercial breakthrough, reaching No. 55 on the Billboard Top 200, which none of their previous five albums had dented at all. The RIAA certified the record as Gold on 28 May 1986, and the album also proved a breakthrough in the United Kingdom where it was the first Scorpions album to chart and peaked at No. 36.