Send Me An Angel – Scorpions | Top 40 Chart Performance, Story and Song Meaning
Chart Performance: Pop (#44) & Mainstream Rock (#8); 1992
Story Behind The Song By Ed Osborne
Scorpions‘ one-two punch of the platinum-selling Blackout and three-times-platinum Love At First Sting marked them as a powerful force in metal-ville. A double-disc live album in 1985 captured the band at the peak of its powers, and a new studio album in 1988 – Savage Amusement – gave Scorpions its highest charting LP to-date: a #5 winner.
Savage Amusement featured a more commercial sound than past releases: one that sent Rhythm Of Love and Believe In Love into heavy rotation at mainstream rock radio. While other metal outfits stayed with a full-scream, balls-to-the-walls approach, Scorpions refined their sound as tastes changed.
Thus, for Crazy World long-time producer Dieter Dierks was out and über producer Keith Olsen (of Fleetwood Mac and Foreigner fame) was in. The move worked: Wind Of Change and Send Me An Angel were crossover smashes and Crazy World went double platinum.
This content and all Song Meaning articles were created and written by Top 40 Contributing Editor Ed Osborne. © 2024 Ed Osborne. All Rights Reserved. In addition to these song meaning articles, Ed has written our “Year in Music 1960s-1990s” articles.
Produced by:
- Keith Olsen
- Scorpions
Lyrics Written by:
- Rudolf Schenker
- Klaus Meine
Ed Osborne
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