No One Like You Rhythm Of Love Still Loving You When The Smoke Is Going Down Scorpions

No One Like You Album: Blackout (1982)
Rhythm of Love Album: Savage Amusement (1988)
Still Loving You Album: Love at First Sting (1984)
When the Smoke is Going Down Album: Blackout (1982)
by The Scorpions

Artwork by Boris Vallejo
Boris Vallejo (born January 8, 1941) is a Peruvian-American painter who works in the science fiction, fantasy, and erotica genres. His hyper-representational paintings have appeared on the covers of numerous science fiction and fantasy fiction novels. They are also sold through a series of annual calendars.

Born in Lima, Peru, Vallejo began painting at the age of 13, in 1954, and obtained his first illustration job three years later in 1957 at the age of 16. He attended the Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes on a five-year scholarship, and was awarded a prize medal. After emigrating to the United States in 1964, at the age of 23, he quickly garnered a fan following from his illustrations of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage and various other fantasy characters (often done for paperback-fiction works featuring the characters). This led to commissions for movie-poster illustration, advertisement illustration, and artwork for various collectibles - including Franklin Mint paraphernalia, trading cards, and sculpture. Along with Julie Bell, Vallejo presents his artwork in an annual calendar and various books. Vallejo's work is often compared to the work of Frank Frazetta, not only because it is similar stylistically, but also because Frazetta painted covers for paperbacks of some of the same characters.

Vallejo's preferred artistic medium is oil on board, and he has previously used photographs to combine discrete images to form composite images. Preparatory works are pencil or ink sketches, which have been displayed in the book Sketchbook. He and Julie Bell have worked on collaborative artworks together, in which they sign the artwork with both names.

Vallejo has produced film posters for numerous fantasy and action movies, including Knightriders (1981), Q (1982), and Barbarian Queen (1985). He has also illustrated posters for comedies, notably National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), European Vacation (1985), Nothing But Trouble (1991) and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007), co-created with Bell.

He created the 1978 Tarzan calendar. His sea serpent paintings hang in the queue of Loch Ness Monster, a rollercoaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

He received the British Fantasy Award for best artist in 1979 for his painting The Amazon Princess and her Pet. Vallejo also won the 2011 Chelsey Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, and the 2014 Chelsey Award for Best Product Illustration.

The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo (1980)
Mirage (1982, reprinted 1996 and 2001)
Enchantment. Stories By Doris Vallejo, Illustrated by Boris Vallejo (1984)
Fantasy Art Techniques (1985)
Ladies: Retold Tales of Goddesses and Heroines. By Boris and Doris Vallejo (1992)
Bodies: Boris Vallejo: Photographic Art (1998)
Dreams: The Art of Boris Vallejo (1999)
Titans: The Heroic Visions of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell (2000)
Sketchbook (2001)
Twin Visions (2002)
Fantasy Workshop: A Practical Guide (with Julie Bell) (2003)
Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell: The Ultimate Collection (2005)
The Fabulous Women of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell (2006)
Imaginistix (2006)
A yearly calendar of 13 paintings by Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell is produced by Workman Publishing.

"No One Like You" is a song written by band members Rudolf Schenker (guitar) and Klaus Meine (vocals) and released as the lead single from the band's eighth studio album Blackout (1982). It was produced by Dieter Dierks and was recorded at Dierks' studio.

This was the Scorpions' breakout song in America, where it hit #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart. The band is from Germany, but had tremendous success in English-speaking countries, something that might have to do with their unusual perspective. In our interview with Scorpions guitarist Rudolf Schenker, he explained: "We had a big single with 'Nobody Like You' in '82. People asked us, 'Why are you guys coming from Germany, and you have this #1 single in the United States? What is this secret?' I said, 'Maybe it is because we see things in a different way. We explain things differently, and we go very deep inside with the music and the lyrics, and we have a different view. And people start liking this view because it's not the same as the views of other people."

The track was originally written in German and much of its meaning changed in translation.

"Rhythm of Love" was released on Harvest/EMI as a single in 1988.

The video for the song, which depicts the band performing in a science fiction setting, features the model Joan Severance as one of several women enjoying the band's performance.

"Still Loving You" was released in June 1984 as the second single from their ninth studio album, Love at First Sting (1984). The song reached number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was most successful in Europe, reaching the top 5 in several countries.

Rudolf Schenker explained, "It's a story about a love affair, where they recognized it may be over, but let's try again".

The music video was released on 3 July 1984, and was filmed in Dallas, Texas at Reunion Arena.

Rudolf Schenker explained: "I came up with the composition's melody and everything. It took about six years of trying to get the song somehow on the album. Matthias Jabs came in with the guitar part, and the feeling was immediately right, so Klaus (Meine) noticed it was right. Therefore, he wanted to write something very special. He told me about how one day he went out into the fields in the snow, and it was then that he came up with the lyrics. He came back home and threw them down, and here we are. It's a story about a love affair where they recognized it may be over, but let's try again. It's the old story; always the old story. I mean, what can we use? We can't reinvent the wheel. What we always do, is say something which has already been said many times, in our own way."

This was written in crescendo: a calm acoustic start followed by power chords as Klaus Meine sings in a voice full of pain.

This song hit the charts all over the world, but it was especially popular in France, where it went to #1. In fact, it was so popular that it may have increased the population of the country. Rudolf Schenker told us: "'Still Loving You,' the song of love, created a baby boom in France. But we didn't believe it, either, you know? We were on a TV show in France between recordings, and the host, a very famous guy that interviews us each year, goes, 'Hey, guys, you know that you are responsible for the baby boom in '85.' We were laughing like crazy! And yes, it's been measured by the government. It's unbelievable, I tell you."

Album Blackout
Blackout is the eighth studio album released in 1982 on Harvest Records and Mercury Records.
Side Two Track 9
"When the Smoke Is Going Down"
by Klaus Meine