Rotator is the second studio album released by the Danish rock band Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, and was their final studio album before they disbanded in 1997. In 2016, however, the band continued and released a new studio album entitled Forward in Reverse.

Despite the record-breaking successes of the band's eponymous debut, the band did not perceive it as pressuring them musically, although it perhaps would on certain other points. The band did not attempt to create songs that resemble the old, and assumed it at least would not be a complete fiasco given their continued success.

Rotator is heavier and less carefree than its predecessor, with a hint of bitterness especially in regard to the state of the music industry. As lead singer Tim Christensen explains: "There are several songs about the [music] industry. One song for example describes how you should first do well before they take you in from the cold. Nobody makes it from the start; they must smell the money. We are the cause that other bands have had the problem that the record label tells them, 'Now that Dizzy is running so well, we won't be taking in other bands.' It embarrasses us a bit, but cannot do anything about it." Drummer Søren Friis elaborates: "One can actually take ourselves as an example, as we first had to win DM i Rock before it happened." Bassist Martin Nielsen clarifies, "The songs aren't about how bad we have it, but mostly about how bad the business can be sometimes."

The song "11:07 PM" is about the death of John Lennon, an event which has had a profound impact on Christensen, even though he was only six years old at the time. The title of the song refers to a presumed time of death.

On this album, Nic Wastell, an Englishman, corrected some of the lyrics. "The idea came from both myself and from our label, because I am fairly lazy when it comes to writing lyrics. Since we had recorded all the music, I could see that some of the lyrics weren't entirely complete," says Christensen.

EMI-Medley head of A&R and producer Nick Foss had made an agreement with lead singer and guitarist Tim Christensen that if their debut album Dizzy Mizz Lizzy sold gold (equal to 40,000 copies at that time), the next would be recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, which it did in 2 months' time, and would continue to sell 5× platinum. As a result, Rotator was recorded in the same studios The Beatles had recorded in, which was Christensen's boyhood dream, and which he repeated in 2004 when playing and recording a solo live show there.

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