I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery artist decided early on in their career that they didn’t want to be associated with their own country so they intentionally sang in another language and performed only outside their country.  Any guess who they might be or why they decided this??

I found and interesting interview on the site Noisy.  I had never given any real thought to  how a post war society back in 1965 would look at a German band.  The Scorpions however seemed to have given it a lot of think time giver their remarks  from Rudolf Schenker in this 2015 interview:

N: Tell me about growing up in post-war Germany, and how that influenced your music.

RS: When Germany became a more krautrock country, we didn’t want to play krautrock. We already decided early on that we wanted to sing in English and play international music. I did the management in those days, and I pushed to get into international markets like France, Holland and Belgium. This, actually, was good for us to deliver the music we were going to play. It got to the point where we got very good reviews from France, from Belgium, and also from England. And the German media started thinking, “One moment, is this the Scorpions? The Scorpions from Germany?” And it was the German Scorpions.

Now celebrating 50 years in the business.  Here is tonight's featured song from back in the day.