''Classic Diamonds – The DVD'' is a DVD video album by hard rock singer

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, released in 2004 by

AFM Records AFM Records GmbH is a music label based in Schwalmstadt, Germany. They focus on the heavy metal musical genre, signing bands such as U.D.O., Doro, Lordi, Kotipelto, Masterplan, Nostradameus, and Annihilator. In 2005, Candlelight Records si ...

. The DVD contains footage from two concerts held during the European tour which followed the release of the studio album ''

Classic Diamonds ''Classic Diamonds'' is the ninth studio album by the German female hard rock singer Doro Pesch. It was released worldwide in 2004 by AFM Records. The album presents new acoustic and symphonic arrangements for songs from Doro's repertoire, as w ...

''. The album was a special project for Doro Pesch, who revised and re-arranged some of her songs for the Classic Night Orchestra, a 30-elements

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. A smaller ensemble of the orchestra accompanied Doro and her usual touring musicians on tour, but the full orchestra was on stage in August 2004 at

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for a strictly acoustic set, an unusual performance for the largest European heavy metal festival. Special guests of the night were former-

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singer

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and guitarist

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(

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). As an extra, the DVD features also a concert held in

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, Germany, where Doro performed her usual heavy metal repertoire and which the German TV show

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broadcast on 17 October 2004.

Track listing

#Intro Live in Wacken - ≈ 43:00 #"

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" #"I Rule the Ruins" #"Touch of Evil" #"Metal Tango" #" Für Immer" #"Let Love Rain on Me" #"

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" #"All We Are" Impressions of the tour - ≈ 15:00 #Documentary of the tour, backstage, interviews Live In Hamburg - ≈ 61:00 #"I Rule the Ruins" #"Metal Tango" #"She's Like Thunder" #"Let Love Rain on Me" #"Hellraiser" #"Touch of Evil" #"Fall for Me Again" #"Tausend Mal Gelebt" #"Breaking the Law" #"Fear of the Dark" #"All We Are" #"Outro" Extras - ≈ 63:00 *"Let Love Rain on Me" - making of the do video clip *"Let Love Rain on Me" - video clip *

TV Show #"Metal Tango" #"True As Steel" #"Für Immer" #"Breaking the Law" #"Interview" #"Let Love Rain on Me" #"Tausend Mal Gelebt" #"All We Are" *Documentary of European Tour *Discography *Photo Gallery

Personnel

Band members

- vocals *Nick Douglas - bass, keyboards, backing vocals *Joe Taylor - guitars, backing vocals *

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- drums, percussion, backing vocals *

Oliver Palotai Oliver Palotai (born 17 March 1974) is a classically trained German musician of Hungarian ancestry, husband of Simone Simons from Epica, best known as a member of the power metal band Kamelot and of Doro Pesch's touring band. Career He made his n ...

- keyboards, guitars, backing vocals

Additional musicians

* The Classic Night Orchestra *

- lead vocals on "Fear of the Dark" *

- lead guitar on Wacken concert *Klaus Vanscheidt - guitars

Production

*Frank Machel - director, editor *Ronald Matthes - director, executive producer *Matthias Mirke - executive producer *Patrick von Schuckmann - director, producer *Patrick Basedow, Erik Fugmann-Brandt, Alexandra Seifert - editors *Michael Hankel, Chris Lietz - mixing *Matthias Wendt - mastering

References

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