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Hannover, Germany (1965 – present)

Scorpions are a hard rock/heavy metal band from Hannover, Germany, best known for their 1984 rock anthem “Rock You Like a Hurricane” and their singles “Wind of Change”, “No One Like You”, “Still Loving You”, and “Send Me an Angel”. The band has sold over 75 million records worldwide.

Formation and early history (1965-1973)

Rudolf Schenker, the band’s rhythm guitarist, set out to find a band in 1965. At first, the band was school-kind with beat influences and Schenker himself on vocals. Things began to come together in 1969 when Schenker’s younger brother Michael and vocalist Klaus Meine joined the band. In 1972 the group recorded and released their debut album Lonesome Crow with Lothar Heimberg on bass and Wolfgang Dziony on drums. During the Lonesome Crow tour, Scorpions opened for upcoming British band UFO. At the end of the tour the members of UFO offered guitarist Michael Schenker the lead guitar job; an offer which he soon accepted. Uli Roth was then called in temporarily to finish off the tour.

The departure of Michael Schenker led to the break up of the Scorpions. In 1973, guitarist Uli Roth, a friend of the Schenker brothers, was in a band called Dawn Road. He had been offered the role as lead guitarist in Scorpions after Michael Schenker’s departure but turned the band down. Rudolf decided that he wanted to work with Roth but did not want to resurrect the last Scorpions lineup.

Rudolf Schenker attended some of Dawn Road’s rehearsals and ultimately decided to join the band, which consisted of Roth, Francis Buchholz (bass), Achim Kirschning (keyboard) and Jurgen Rosenthal (drums).

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1	Wind Of Change	6,372
2	Still Loving You full track	4,996
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5	No One Like You full track	2,342
6	Holiday full track	1,958
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10	Rhythm Of Love full track	1,021
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13	Humanity full track	793
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I-heartBJ wrote:
7 hours ago

Love, a lot of Love, endless love XD the best German band ever <3

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RhythmOfLove wrote:
10 hours ago

Scorpions is my life<3. Why are they stop playing music? ;__;

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Irenicus_ wrote:
yesterday morning

uli jon roth > michael schenker > matthias jabs > rudolf schenker

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Cloudy-Now wrote:
yesterday morning

god of hard rock..

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Dimov_ wrote:
Sunday afternoon

It's gonna be an epic album and tour , at least that's for sure ^^

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AzraelDanic wrote:
Saturday evening

They're gunna end :(

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SleazepavL wrote:
Saturday afternoon

Classic. Amazin`

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Deathriderdoom wrote:
Saturday morning

great band

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Sportsnut wrote:
Friday morning

The new album will feature Tarja Turunen as a guest vocalist on one song, this is gonna be good.

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thendan wrote:
Thursday morning

send me an angle

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redsnapa wrote:
Wednesday evening

"is there anybody there" is one of the best Scorpion's songs

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Scorppari wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

Scorpions is my life [4]

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ArtSlash wrote:
Wednesday morning

SCORPIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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NaThAn_27 wrote:
last week

Scorpions is my life 3

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Muchaselo wrote:
last week

13,500 listening song's Scorpions ;):)

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WithinTheAbyss wrote:
last week

Scorpions is my life [2]

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Xandr777 wrote:
last week

Scorpions is my life

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Deathriderdoom wrote:
last week

badass

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megabell wrote:
last week

One of the best German bands ever

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Muchaselo wrote:
last month

Love At First Sting and Acoustica this is magic album's ;) ;)

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