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This would not be the last time that the band attracted controversy with its album covers. Their next album, Taken by Force, originally featured cover art that depicted "children playing with guns at a military cemetery in France and some people found that offensive." Their 1979 album Lovedrive featured a "bizarre artwork" that depicts "a woman on the back seat of a car with bubblegum over her breast." Both covers were replaced by an alternate design. Vocalist Klaus Meine explains that the band's penchant for controversial cover art stems from a desire "to go over the edge" and not "to offend some people or make the headlines that would be stupid," contrasting guitarist Rudolf Schenker's earlier statement, "We're using this only to get attention."

Internet censorship

Template:Wikinewspar3 In May 2008, the US-based social conservative site WorldNetDaily reported the cover image on Misplaced Pages to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. An officer of the Concerned Women for America, a conservative Christian advocacy group, commented, "By allowing that image to remain posted, Misplaced Pages is helping to further facilitate perversion and pedophilia." EContent magazine subsequently reported the Misplaced Pages community's internal debate as concluding, "Prior discussion has determined by broad consensus that the Virgin Killer cover will not be removed", and asserted that Misplaced Pages contributors "favor inclusion in all but the most extreme cases". In December 2008, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK-based non-government organization, added the Misplaced Pages article Virgin Killer to its internet blacklist due to concerns over legality of the image, which had been assessed as the lowest level of legal concern: "erotic posing with no sexual activity". As a result, people using many major UK ISPs were blocked from viewing the entire article by the Cleanfeed system, and a large part of the U.K. was blocked from editing Misplaced Pages owing to the means of blocking in use. Following discussion, representations by the Wikimedia Foundation (who host the Misplaced Pages website), and public complaints, the IWF reversed their decision three days later, and confirmed that in future they would not block copies of the image that were hosted overseas.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Pictured Life" (Meine, Roth, Schenker)  – 3:21
2. "Catch Your Train" (Meine, Schenker)  – 3:32
3. "In Your Park" (Meine, Schenker)  – 3:39
4. "Backstage Queen" (Meine, Schenker)  – 3:10
5. "Virgin Killer" (Roth)  – 3:41

Side two

1. "Hell Cat" (Roth)  – 2:54
2. "Crying Days" (Meine, Schenker)  – 4:36
3. "Polar Nights" (Roth)  – 5:04
4. "Yellow Raven" (Roth)  – 4:58

Credits

• Klaus Meine – lead vocals
• Ulrich Roth – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Hell-Cat" and "Polar Nights"
• Rudolf Schenker – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Francis Buchholz – bass, backing vocals
• Rudy Lenners – drums, percussion
• Achim Kirschning – synthesizer, keyboards
• Dieter Dierks – arrangement, production

Covered songs

• "Pictured Life" was covered by the Greek power metal band Firewind on their debut album Between Heaven and Hell in 2002.
• "Crying Days" was covered by Swedish symphonic metal band Therion as a bonus track on their 2001 album Secret of the Runes.
• "Polar Nights" was also covered by Therion on the various artist compilation A Tribute to the Scorpions.
• "Yellow Raven" was covered by Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation on their Linoleum EP in 2009.

Charts

See also

• List of controversial album art

References

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7. "FBI investigates 'Wikipedophilia'", WorldNetDaily, May 7, 2008
8. "Misplaced Pages Weighs Information Against Indecency" by Jessica Dye, July/August 2008 issue ofEContent
9. ^ Arthur, Charles (2008-12-08). "Misplaced Pages row escalates as internet watchdog considers censoring Amazon US over Scorpions image". Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
10. "Misplaced Pages child image censored". BBC News. 2008-12-08. Retrieved 2008-12-08. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
11. AP: Misplaced Pages article blocked in UK over child photo
12. "Censorship in the United Kingdom disenfranchises tens of thousands of Misplaced Pages editors", Wikimedia Foundation press release, December 7, 2008
13. ZDNet cites "floods of angry users".
14. "IWF statement regarding Misplaced Pages webpage". Internet Watch Foundation. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
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External links

• Scorpions - The Official Site: Lyrics and samples from the Virgin Killer album

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• Scorpions albums
• 1976 albums
• Censorship