The Scorpions: Boom! Boom! Out Go The Lights
Pete Makowski, Sounds, 27 March 1982
HERE WE are in Spain – San Sebastian to be precise. Poli de Portivo is the name of the venue and the Scorpions have just finished their set, playing to a bunch of euphoric if not even ecstatic castanet bangers.
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