In Trance

The original version of the album cover--photographed by Michael von Gimbut{{cite AV media notes |title=In Trance Virgin Killer: The Back to Black Collection |others=Scorpions |year=2000 |publisher=Axe Killer Music |id=3056462 |location=France}} was censored for clearly showing the cover model's exposed breast{{cite web |author=Easton, Jeffrey |title=Metal Exiles interview with Klaus Meine |url=http://www.metalexiles.com/_mgxroot/page_11070.html |publisher=Metalexiles.com |access-date=April 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421000657/http://www.metalexiles.com/_mgxroot/page_11070.html |archive-date=April 21, 2010}} hanging down towards the guitar. Later releases blacked out the breast so that it is not visible. This is the first of many Scorpions album covers to have been censored. The band's former lead guitarist Uli Jon Roth claimed he may have "come up with the idea to do the thing with the guitar for the cover of In Trance".{{cite web |author=Syrjälä, Marko |title=Interview with Uli Jon Roth |url=http://www.metal-rules.com/zine/content/view/748/0/ |publisher=Metal-rules.com |access-date=May 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126150948/http://www.metal-rules.com/zine/content/view/748/0 |archive-date=November 26, 2010 }}

However, in a 2008 interview Roth claimed that early Scorpions album covers in general were "the record company's idea-- but we certainly didn't object. And so shame on us. Those covers were probably the most embarrassing thing I've ever been involved with." He did, though, classify the In Trance cover as "borderline".{{cite web |author=Plakas, Argie |title=Uli Jon Roth: 'Bridging Classical and Rock to Form Musical Bliss' |url=http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/uli_jon_roth_bridging_classical_and_rock_to_form_musical_bliss.html |publisher=Ultimate-Guitar.com |access-date=January 20, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602124319/http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/uli_jon_roth_bridging_classical_and_rock_to_form_musical_bliss.html |archive-date=June 2, 2009 }}

The White Stratocaster shown on the cover belonged to Roth and he can be seen playing the same guitar on the cover of the Electric Sun album Fire Wind. This is the guitar that Roth used on all subsequent Scorpions and Electric Sun albums on which he played.{{cite web |author=Wright, Jeb |title=Uli Jon Roth: Surviving the Scorpions Sting |url=http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/Interviews06/ulijonroth.htm |access-date=July 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613043717/http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/Interviews06/ulijonroth.htm |archive-date=June 13, 2007}}

This was the band's first album to feature the band's name written in the now-familiar font used on nearly all subsequent album covers--as well as their first collaboration with producer Dieter Dierks.

{{Track listing

| headline = Side one

| title1 = Dark Lady

| length1 = 3:30

| writer1 = Ulrich Roth

| title2 = In Trance

| length2 = 4:47

| writer2 = Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine

| title3 = Life's Like a River

| length3 = 3:54

| writer3 = Roth, Schenker, Corina Fortmann

| title4 = Top of the Bill

| length4 = 3:26

| writer4 = Schenker, Meine

| title5 = Living and Dying

| length5 = 3:24

| writer5 = Schenker, Meine

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side two

| title6 = Robot Man

| length6 = 2:47

| writer6 = Schenker, Meine

| title7 = Evening Wind

| length7 = 5:06

| writer7 = Roth

| title8 = Sun in My Hand

| length8 = 4:25

| writer8 = Roth

| title9 = Longing for Fire

| length9 = 2:44

| writer9 = Schenker, Roth

| title10 = Night Lights

| note10 = Instrumental

| length10 = 3:14

| writer10 = Roth

}}

;Scorpions

• Klaus Meine – vocals
• Ulrich Roth – lead and slide guitar, vocals
• Rudolf Schenker – rhythm guitar
• Francis Buchholz – bass
• Rudy Lenners – drums

;Additional musician

• Achim Kirschning – keyboards

;Production

• Dieter Dierks – producer, engineer, mixing

{{Reflist}}

• [https://www.the-scorpions.com/album/in-trance-5/ In Trance at the-scorpions.com]

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