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Assault Attack is the third studio album from The Michael Schenker Group, and the only album to feature former Rainbow vocalist Graham Bonnet. The album was recorded in France at the Chateau d'Herouville and was produced by Martin Birch. After returning to the UK from Japan in August 1981, having recorded the live album One Night at Budokan Schenker and his band played a short tour of the UK. After the tour Cozy Powell and Peter Mensch (MSG's manager) wanted a better singer for the band and suggested David Coverdale but Schenker himself wanted Graham Bonnet, so after some disagreements which ultimately led to the termination of the cooperation between Mensch and MSG, Bonnet joined the MSG in February 1982. Meanwhile Cozy Powell and Paul Raymond left the band for their own reasons and replaced by ex-Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Rory Galacher drumer Ted McKenna and session keyboardist Tommy Eyre (Joe Cocker, John Martyn, Alex Harvey, Greg Lake, Gary Moore, B.B. King, etc). After four months the band went to France to commence the album that would became 'Assaul Attack'. As a producer they choose Martin (The Ninja) Birch who arrived fresh from Iron Maiden's album The Number of the Beast. The sessions took part at a French castle called Chateau d'Herouville. Nevertheless, the MSG-Bonnet cooperation would be short-lived, due to a serious incident caused by a drunk Bonnet who insulted Schenker especially and the rest of the band, in front of the audience in a warm up gig (at the Sheffield Polytechnic), just before the appearance at the Reading festival. That was the last time until the Tales of Rock'n'Roll album that Schenker and Bonnet cooperated.