Crazy World is the eleventh studio album by German hard rock bandScorpions, released on 6 November 1990. The album peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 chart for albums in 1991. That same year, the song "Wind of Change" reached No. 4 on the BillboardHot 100 and "Send Me an Angel" reached No. 44 on the same chart. It also has the only Scorpions track to credit Buchholz as a writer, "Kicks After Six". This album was the band's first album in a decade and a half to not be produced by Dieter Dierks and is widely considered to be the last "classic" Scorpions album. In the UK, it remains the only Scorpions album to attain Silver certification by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in November 1991. In the United States, it is the band's second best-selling album to 1984's Love at First Sting, and their last one to be certified at least gold by the RIAA.It was the last studio album to feature the Lovedrive-era lineup, with bassist Francis Buchholz leaving the band in January 1992. "Hit Between the Eyes" was played during the ending credits of the 1992 filmFreejack. "Send Me an Angel" was played at the closing scene in the 2004 Cold Case episode "Who's Your Daddy." "Wind of Change" was also used during the 2009 filmGentlemen Broncos and towards the end of the 2014 filmThe Interview.
Koen van Baal, Robbie Buchanan – keyboards on "Wind of Change"
Jim Vallance – keyboards on "Send Me an Angel"
Michael Thompson – guitar on "Wind of Change"
Roy Tesse, Dries van der Schuyt, Ria Makker, Gerard v.d. Pot, Louis Spillman, Wolfgang Praetz, Inka Esser, Claudia Frohling, Cliff Roles, Peter Angmeer, Tony Ioannoua and Jim Lewis, supported by Klaus Meine, Matthias Jabs, Rudolf Schenker, Erwin Musper and Keith Olsen – "gang" vocals on "Tease Me Please Me"
Marcel Gelderblom, Mirjam Erftemeijer, Henk Horden and Patrick Ulenberg, supported by Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Erwin Musper and Keith Olsen - "bang" vocals on "Crazy World"
Production
Keith Olsen – producer, engineer, mixing
Erwin Musper – engineer, mixing
Shay Baby – additional engineering, mixing
Attie Bauw, Albert Boekholt, Tom Fletcher – assistant engineers
