The Scorpions Love at First Sting Tracks: 1. Bad Boys Running Wild 2. Rock You Like a Hurricane 3. I'm Leaving You 4. Coming Home 5. The Same Thrill 6. Big City Nights 7. As Soon as the Good Times Roll 8. Crossfire 9. Still Loving You Line up: Klaus Meine - lead vocals Matthias Jabs - lead guitar, backing vocals Rudolf Schenker - rhythm guitar, backing vocals, lead guitar (on 6, 9) Francis Buchholz - bass, backing vocals Herman Rarebell - drums, percussion, backing vocals Additional musicians: Bobby Rondinelli - drums Jimmy Bain - bass Record Label / Year of Release: EMI Records 1984 Notes: Love at First Sting is the ninth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music). Love at First Sting became the most successful album of the band in the USA where it peaked at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1984 and went triple platinum. The original cover art created by Helmut Newton features a man and a partially nude woman locked in an embrace, with the man giving the woman a tattoo on her thigh. Despite the record company having shown the original cover art to retailers without any concerns, a complaint by Wal-Mart after the album was released resulted in PolyGram Records issuing a "clean" cover for use in several department store chains. The alternative cover was designed to be less controversial by simply showing a photo of the band members, which was the same photo on the inner sleeve. Although the usual band line-up is credited on Love At First Sting, both Rarebell and Buchholz were temporarily out of the band at the time of the album's recording, with drum and bass track provided by Bobby Rondinelli (Rainbow) and Jimmy Bain (Dio, Rainbow, Wild Horses). Bain performed uncredited on this album from the Scorpions, as the Teutonic rockers ironed out kinks with their rhythm section of bassist Francis Buchholz and drummer Herman ‘Ze German’ Rarebell. It became the group’s most successful album in America, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard chart. Buchholz and Rarebell would remain in the group and Jimmy had no real interest in trying to muscle into the action, revealing: “The only guy [in the band] I could communicate with was their English roadie.” It was of no consequence that his name didn’t appear on such a hugely popular record. “I didn't care. They paid me a lot of money to do it.” The album was recorded in 1983 and 1984 at Dierks Studios near Cologne Germany.