{"id":2999,"date":"2013-04-23T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2013-04-23T09:07:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:07:27","slug":"a-message-from-the-scorpions-about-storm-thorgerson-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=2999","title":{"rendered":"A Message from the Scorpions about Storm Thorgerson passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are saddened by the news of the passing of Storm Thorgerson, our graphic cover designer for the Albums &#8220;Lovedrive&#8221; and &#8220;Animal Magnetism&#8221;. He was truly a genius artist and we remember every time he came over to the Dierks Studios in Cologne to show us a selection of his brilliant work. It was always a lot of fun, we loved his British humour &#8230;<br \/>\nYou can tell, when you take a look at &#8220;Animal Magnetism&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe shot the cover for Lovedrive in the back of a Rolls Royce owned by Elton John at that time. It became a classic and one of the most favourite album covers for Scorpions and Fans around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Our hearts go out to his family at this very said time.<\/p>\n<p>RIP Storm.<\/p>\n<p>Your Scorpions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are saddened by the news of the passing of Storm Thorgerson, our graphic cover designer for the Albums &#8220;Lovedrive&#8221; and &#8220;Animal Magnetism&#8221;. He was truly a genius artist and we remember every time he came over to the Dierks Studios in Cologne to show us a selection of his brilliant work. It was always [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}