Classic Diamonds - The DVD is a DVD video album by hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 singer Doro Pesch

Doro (musician)

Dorothee Pesch , popularly known as Doro Pesch or Doro, is a female rock vocalist, formerly of the German heavy metal band Warlock ....

, released in 2004 by AFM Records

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, Kotipelto, Masterplan, Nostradameus, and Annihilator....

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

Classic Diamonds

Classic Diamonds is the ninth studio album of 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 of Doro’s repertoire, as well as some new compositions...

. 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 symphonic orchestra. 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 Wacken Open Air

Wacken Open Air

Wacken Open Air is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany...

 for a strictly acoustic set, an unusual performance for the largest European heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 festival. Special guests of the night were former-Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...

 singer Blaze Bayley

Blaze Bayley

Blaze Bayley is an English singer and songwriter. He has been the lead singer of Wolfsbane from 1984 to 1994, and nowadays since their recent reunion. Blaze is however world-known for having been the lead singer of British metal band Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999...

 and guitarist Chris Caffery

Chris Caffery

Chris Caffery is a heavy metal guitarist who is best known for his work as a member of Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra...

 (Savatage

Savatage

Savatage is an American heavy metal band founded by the brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida.-Early days :...

, Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Trans-Siberian Orchestra is an American progressive metal band founded in 1993 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team. Since then, TSO sold nearly 8...

).

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

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

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

Rockpalast

Rockpalast is a German music television show that broadcasts live on German television station Westdeutscher Rundfunk . Rockpalast started in 1974 and continues to this day. Hundreds of rock and jazz bands have performed on Rockpalast...

 broadcasted on 17 October 2004.

Track listing

1. Intro

Live in Wacken - ≈ 43:00

1. "Fear of the Dark
   Fear of the Dark (song)
   "Fear of the Dark" is a song written by Steve Harris, bass player and main songwriter for Iron Maiden, as the title track to Iron Maiden's 1992 album Fear of the Dark...
   
   "
2. "I Rule the Ruins"
3. "Touch of Evil"
4. "Metal Tango"
5. "Für Immer"
6. "Let Love Rain on Me"
7. "Breaking the Law
   Breaking the Law
   "Breaking the Law" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, originally released on their 1980 album British Steel. The song is one of the band's better known singles, and is recognized by its opening guitar riff.-Music video:...
   
   "
8. "All We Are"

Impressions of the tour - ≈ 15:00

1. Documentary of the tour, backstage, interviews

Live In Hamburg - ≈ 61:00

1. "I Rule the Ruins"
2. "Metal Tango"
3. "She's Like Thunder"
4. "Let Love Rain on Me"
5. "Hellraiser"
6. "Touch of Evil"
7. "Fall for Me Again"
8. "Tausend Mal Gelebt"
9. "Breaking the Law"
10. "Fear of the Dark"
11. "All We Are"
12. "Outro"

Extras - ≈ 63:00

• "Let Love Rain on Me" - making of the do video clip
• "Let Love Rain on Me" - video clip

• Rockpalast
  Rockpalast
  Rockpalast is a German music television show that broadcasts live on German television station Westdeutscher Rundfunk . Rockpalast started in 1974 and continues to this day. Hundreds of rock and jazz bands have performed on Rockpalast...
  
   TV Show

1. "Metal Tango"
2. "True As Steel"
3. "Für Immer"
4. "Breaking the Law"
5. "Interview"
6. "Let Love Rain on Me"
7. "Tausend Mal Gelebt"
8. "All We Are"

• Documentary of European Tour
• Discography
• Photo Gallery

Band members

• Doro Pesch
  Doro (musician)
  Dorothee Pesch , popularly known as Doro Pesch or Doro, is a female rock vocalist, formerly of the German heavy metal band Warlock ....
  
   - vocals
• Nick Douglas - bass, keyboards, backing vocals
• Joe Taylor - guitars, backing vocals
• Johnny Dee - drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Oliver Palotai
  Oliver Palotai
  Oliver Palotai is a heavy metal musician.-Career:He made his name playing keyboards and guitar for Doro and keyboards for Circle II Circle before joining Blaze Bayley's BLAZE as a replacement for founding guitarist John Slater in 2004...
  
   - keyboards, guitars, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• The Classic Night Orchestra
• Blaze Bayley
  Blaze Bayley
  Blaze Bayley is an English singer and songwriter. He has been the lead singer of Wolfsbane from 1984 to 1994, and nowadays since their recent reunion. Blaze is however world-known for having been the lead singer of British metal band Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999...
  
   - lead vocals on "Fear of the Dark"
• Chris Caffery
  Chris Caffery
  Chris Caffery is a heavy metal guitarist who is best known for his work as a member of Savatage and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra...
  
  - 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