Scorpio Rising

Album: Scorpio Rising (2002)
Charted: 14
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Songfacts®:

  • Death In Vegas are a UK psychedelic/electronic rock band with just two permanent members: Richard Fearless and Tim Holmes. On this song, Oasis lead singer Liam Gallagher sings lead.
  • The title "Scorpio Rising" comes from a 1964 experimental short film by Kenneth Anger. There is no dialogue in the film, just popular music.
  • This was used in a commercial by the Belgian mobile phone operator BASE. >>>
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    Bertrand - Paris, France, for all above
  • When Death In Vegas' Richard Fearless first heard Liam Gallagher sing, he thought he sounded like a cross between John Lennon and John Lydon. "We asked him to be on 'Scorpio Rising,'" he recalled to Mojo magazine. "Sometimes when you get a song, and you get someone in mind, and you just know that they're the only person who can be on it."

    "He was amazing to work with," Fearless continued. "That song has quite a lot of lyrics in it and it's not the easiest one to just belt out, but we were just blown away by what he put into his performance and how much he was listening to how certain phrases should be."

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