Doro was born in Düsseldorf, NRW, West Germany on 3 June 1964, as the only child of Walter, a truck driver, and Barbara Pesch. Doro's first memory of rock music is the song "Lucille" by Little Richard, which she sang when she was three years old. She learned to play piano and started singing at the age of ten years, when she was exposed to the glam rock of bands like T. Rex, The Sweet and Slade. In 1980, she was accepted in her first band called Snakebite, which was playing rock music in a Düsseldorf basement used as rehearsal space by many other underground groups. The first recording with Doro on vocals was a cheap 7-track demo released by Snakebite for promotion. When Snakebite disbanded in 1981, Doro went on to sing for the garage bands Beast and Attack, before forming Warlock with Peter Szigeti, Rudy Graf, Thomas Studier, and Michael Eurich in 1982
After Warlock underwent many personnel changes, Pesch was the only remaining original member of the band. After changing her record label, she released in 1989 the fifth album as Doro, as the former label owned the trademark on the Warlock name.
Pesch now pursues a solo career and lives in New York City. 2004 album Classic Diamonds was a collaboration with The Classic Night Orchestra which reworked some of her earlier songs. Fear No Evil released in 2009 saw a brief return to the US and currently touring Europe celebrating 25 Years in Rock with a full fledged DVD out on Nuclear Blast.
She released her first album in six years, Forever Warriors - Forever United, on 17 August 2018, entering in many charts worldwide.
Her band at the moment:
Doro Pesch (1988–present) – lead vocals
Stefan Herkenhoff (2021) – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Johnny Dee (1993–1995, 1998–present) – drums, backing vocals
Bill Hudson (2021) – guitars
Bas Maas (2009–present) – guitars, backing vocals
Studio and live albums, EPs and DVDs
Force Majeure (1989)
Doro (1990)
Rare Diamonds (1991)
True at Heart (1991)
Angels Never Die (1993)
DORO Live - Angels Never Die Tour '93 (1993)
Machine II Machine (1995)
A Whiter Shade of Pale (1995)
Machine II Machine: Electric Club Mixes (EP) (1995)
Love Me in Black (1998)
Love Me in Black (EP) (1998)
The Ballads (1998)
Best Of (1998)
WARLOCK - Earthshaker Rock (1999)
Ich Will Alles (EP) (2000)
Calling the Wild (2000)
White Wedding (EP) (2001)
Fight (2002)
Doro Pesch and Warlock: Live (Dvd) (2002)
Für Immer (Dvd) (2003)
Let Love Rain on Me (EP) (2004)
Classic Diamonds (2004)
Classic Diamonds: The Dvd (2004)
We're Like Thunder (EP) (2005)
In Liebe Und Freundschaft (EP) (2005)
Warrior Soul (2006)
20 Years – A Warrior Soul (2006)
All We Are - The Fight (EP) (2007)
Anthems for the Champion - The Queen (EP) (2007)
Metal Queen – B-Sides & Rarities (2007)
Celebrate (The Night of the Warlock) (EP) (2008)
Fear No Evil (2009)
Herzblut (EP) (2009)
25 Years In Rock... And Still Going Strong (Box) (2010)
Merry Metal X-Mas - Doro feat. Onkel Tom Angelripper (2010)
Under My Skin - A Fine Selection Of Doro Classics (2012)
Raise Your Fist In The Air(EP) (2012)
Raise Your Fist (2012)
Doro live @ Wacken Open Air 2013 (Dvd) (2013)
Raise Your Fist (30 Years Anniversary) (2014)
World Gone Wild (6 Discs Box) (2015)
Greatest Hits (2016)
Love's Gone To Hell (2016)
Strong And Proud - 30 Years Of Rock (Dvd) (2016)
I Am What I Am (2017)
Für Immer - Deutsche Songs, Balladen und Raritäten (2017)
For Metal - Live At Rock Hard Festival 2015 (2018)
With The Classic Night Orchestra - Classic Diamonds (2018)
Forever Warriors, Forever United (2018)
Backstage to Heaven (EP) (2019)
Magic Diamonds - Best of Rock, Ballads & Rare Treasures (2020)
Triumph And Agony Live (2021)
Conqueress - Forever Strong and Proud (2023)
Hard Times
Doro Lyrics
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It's so real it kept me up all night
A broken promise on the street of dreams
Left us here, we're down on our knees
And one bite
The walls collapsed with a terrible fright
Minute by minute
Day by day
I feel this place is crumblin' away
Hard Times
We gotta break throught these
Hard Times yea!
Hard Times
Change the face of these
Hard Times yea!
Ev'rybody, ev'rywhere
It's easy talkin' when you're talkin' cheap
It's harder walkin' when you're in this deep
There's too much pressure
And there's too much pain
Too many people bein' driven insane
With one shot
And one bite
The world could change from dark to light
Station to Nation
Face to face
There must be someway to save this place
Hard Times
We gotta break throught these
Hard Times yea!
Hard Times
Change the face of these
Hard Times yea!
Ev'rybody, ev'rywhere
Now fair is fair
Hope needs a lot of care
It's time we all understand
The power in our hands
Hard Times
Hard Times yea!
Hard Times
Hard Times
Hard Times
We gotta break throught these
Hard Times yea!
Hard Times
We'll change the face of these
Hard Times yea!
Hard Times
Hard Times
Hard Times yea!
Hard Times
Hard Times
Hard Times yea!
The lyrics of Doro's song "Hard Times" is about the current reality we live in where people are struggling to make ends meet, and the constant pressure and pain that come with it. The lines "It's too real to be really right, it's so real it kept me up all night" insinuate the difficulty of dealing with a hard life, and how it affects people's mental and emotional being. The second verse talks about the struggles, pressure, and pain that come with the situation, driving many people to the brink of insanity. The chorus then focuses on the need for people to break through these hard times and change the face of it, by coming together and using the power in their hands to make a positive change.
Overall, the lyrics are a call to action for people to unite and work together towards a better future. It encourages people to believe that change is possible and that together, they can overcome the hard times they are facing.
Line by Line Meaning
It's too real to be really right
What is happening is very real but it doesn't feel right
It's so real it kept me up all night
The realness of the situation is so overwhelming that it has caused sleeplessness
A broken promise on the street of dreams
The dreamlike promise of success has been broken and has caused disillusionment
Left us here, we're down on our knees
The situation has reduced us to a helpless, desperate position
With one shot
With one chance
And one bite
And one opportunity
The walls collapsed with a terrible fright
The stability of the situation fell apart unexpectedly and shockingly
Minute by minute
As time passes bit by bit
Day by day
Everyday
I feel this place is crumblin' away
The place or situation is deteriorating rapidly
Hard Times
The tough times we're facing
We gotta break throught these
We need to rise above these difficult times
Change the face of these
We have to alter the current state of affairs for the better
Ev'rybody, ev'rywhere
Everyone, everywhere
It's easy talkin' when you're talkin' cheap
Talking without any real action is effortless but has no substance
It's harder walkin' when you're in this deep
Making significant changes when in a difficult situation is a lot harder than it appears
There's too much pressure
Overwhelming pressure in this situation
And there's too much pain
The pain of the current situation is too much to bear
Too many people bein' driven insane
The mental strain and burden is driving people to a state of madness
The world could change from dark to light
With minor changes, difference can be made and good can come out of the dark times
Station to Nation
From small places to entire countries
Face to face
Instructing to confront the issues head-on
There must be someway to save this place
We need a solution to save the situation from further collapse
Now fair is fair
Justice and fairness is important
Hope needs a lot of care
Hope is fragile and needs to be taken care of
It's time we all understand
It's now the right time for us to comprehend
The power in our hands
We have the ability to create positive change and help ourselves
Hard Times yea!
Repeated refrain that we're in tough times
Hard Times
The difficult challenges we're facing
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@enzobinelli9397
La voz y belleza del heavy metal femenino, una reina
@selenafanparasiempre
Doro Pesch rules. I have been a fan of hers since the early 80's. It's so cool that she's still putting out new material an touring.
@mistymangham4410
Jon Levin so underrated as a guitarist.
@angelb2742
It's 2023 and I'm still ROCKING this song. I LOVE IT !!!! 😊❤😊❤
@shanebailey340
This is everything metal SHOULD and IS SUPPOSED TO be: thundering drums, grinding guitars (check that solo!), thudding bass and powerful, soaring, melodic vocals. Somewhere, somehow, metal as a whole lost its way. It took someone who didn't have (actual) balls to put give metal its (proverbial) balls back. And damn; could she sing! I would call her the German RJD (for her raspy upper register) or a female Joey Belladonna (for her highly melodic tones), but she is in a class by herself; there's no denying that.
@dewfpd
That would be current Dokken guitarist Jon Levin... He kicks ass!
@rodneymeadows7658
YES She is! She's even better live!
@cabowabo2919
THE best song off of Force Majeure and probably the best Doro has ever done . . flat out rocker. Jon Levin at his best guitar work.
@Phoenix_VanDerWeyden
The true Metal Queen
@fuzzo73
This woman captivated me as a 14 year old kid discovering heavy metal. The video for "All We Are", coupled with her unmistakable voice, took me somewhere else. Triumph and Agony is still a pleasure to pull from the cd shelf and crank all these years later. I love her solo stuff too, but nothing hits you like the music you hear when you're a pimple faced teen...