Assault Attack is the third studio album from The Michael Schenker Group, a… Read Full Bio ↴Assault Attack is the third studio album from The Michael Schenker Group, and the only album to feature former Rainbow vocalist Graham Bonnet. The album was recorded in France at the Château d'Hérouville and was produced by Martin Birch.
After returning to the UK from Japan in August 1981, having recorded the live album One Night at Budokan, Schenker and his band played a short tour of the UK. After the tour Cozy Powell and Peter Mensch (Michael Schenker Group's manager) wanted a better singer for the band and suggested David Coverdale, but Schenker himself wanted Graham Bonnet. After some disagreements, which ultimately led to the termination of the cooperation between Mensch and MSG, Bonnet joined the MSG in February 1982. Meanwhile, Cozy Powell and Paul Raymond left the band for their own reasons and were replaced by drummer Ted McKenna and session keyboardist Tommy Eyre. After four months the band went to France to commence the album that would became Assault Attack. As a producer they choose Martin Birch who arrived fresh from Iron Maiden's album The Number of the Beast. The sessions took part at a French castle, Château d'Hérouville.
The MSG-Bonnet cooperation would be short-lived due to a serious incident caused by a drunk Bonnet who insulted Schenker especially and the rest of the band, in front of the audience in a warm up gig at the Sheffield Polytechnic, just before the appearance at the Reading Festival. That was the last time until the Tales of Rock'n'Roll album that Schenker and Bonnet cooperated. The BBC broadcast of the Reading Festival concert was released in 1993 as BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert.
Attracting mixed reviews on release, it is now looked on more favourably, and Schenker himself is considered by many to be in top form. More recent CD reissues contains the bonus track "Girl from Uptown," the b-side of "Dancer", the album's sole single. The title track was featured in the video game Brütal Legend.
After returning to the UK from Japan in August 1981, having recorded the live album One Night at Budokan, Schenker and his band played a short tour of the UK. After the tour Cozy Powell and Peter Mensch (Michael Schenker Group's manager) wanted a better singer for the band and suggested David Coverdale, but Schenker himself wanted Graham Bonnet. After some disagreements, which ultimately led to the termination of the cooperation between Mensch and MSG, Bonnet joined the MSG in February 1982. Meanwhile, Cozy Powell and Paul Raymond left the band for their own reasons and were replaced by drummer Ted McKenna and session keyboardist Tommy Eyre. After four months the band went to France to commence the album that would became Assault Attack. As a producer they choose Martin Birch who arrived fresh from Iron Maiden's album The Number of the Beast. The sessions took part at a French castle, Château d'Hérouville.
The MSG-Bonnet cooperation would be short-lived due to a serious incident caused by a drunk Bonnet who insulted Schenker especially and the rest of the band, in front of the audience in a warm up gig at the Sheffield Polytechnic, just before the appearance at the Reading Festival. That was the last time until the Tales of Rock'n'Roll album that Schenker and Bonnet cooperated. The BBC broadcast of the Reading Festival concert was released in 1993 as BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert.
Attracting mixed reviews on release, it is now looked on more favourably, and Schenker himself is considered by many to be in top form. More recent CD reissues contains the bonus track "Girl from Uptown," the b-side of "Dancer", the album's sole single. The title track was featured in the video game Brütal Legend.
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Assault Attack
Michael Schenker Group Lyrics
Assault Attack You put me down, that's what I said I hit the…
Broken Promises Feeling I could hold you, And you want me to But…
Dancer She works at it hard and she keeps herself to…
Desert Song We're sailing ships across the desert And fading in the Arab…
Rock You To The Ground Mister Rock and Roller, you're never gonna die Out in the…
Samurai Silent warrior, of the east Living for a course or to…
Searching For A Reason [Chorus:] We all need to have good timing We all have the…
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Hahahaha This was an entertaining read! Not precisely correct, but very close. Looks like ChatGPT 3.5 gave this analysis of the lyrics.
"Solo flight" refers to the actual personnel on the aircraft, not a lone aircraft: 1 crew member on board an F-117 Nighthawk, with a wing man in another F-117 flying in tandem, 'holding tight.'
The song was written based on the real, true to life account from the pilot of the first aircraft to drop bombs on Baghdad, Iraq, at the very start of the Gulf War. His first target was the main communications tower, downtown.
Crossing the border at Rafha refers to Rafha, Saudi Arabia, not to be confused with Rafah, Egypt (along its border with the Gaza Strip).
The following link is not the article from which the lyrics were derived, but it is close; It's the account from an F-117 pilot that flew into Baghdad the same night, but in the 2nd wave of Nighthawks as opposed to the first:
https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/gulf-war-black-jet-over-baghdad/
Check it out - It's an interesting read!