Scorpions

This band is the Germany's most successful Hard-Rock act of all time, with over 35 years of career and one of the biggest non-American bands that find multi-platinum success in the United States. All began in 1965 in Hannover, GERMANY, where guitarist+vocalist Rudolf Schenker, started up Scorpions, after several years of playing around his homeland with guitarist Karl-Heinz Follmer, bassist Lothar Heimberg and drummer Wolfgang Dziony, in 1970 the younger Schenker brother, Michael, joined as lead guitarist replacing Follmer, soon after Klaus Meine became the new lead singer.

Two years later the group released their debut album, "Lonesome Crow" which was practically the soundtrack to the movie called "The Cold Paradise".
In 1973 Michael Schenker quit and Ulrich Roth replaced him as lead guitarist, also Heimberg was replaced by bass player Francis Buchholz.
The following year, with a revamped line-up, Scorpions issued its second album: "Fly To The Rainbow".
The rest of the '70s were marked by a string of releases, such 1976's "Virgin Killer" on which appeared Belgian drummer Rudy Lenners; with its sexist album-cover, the record was banned all over the globe, but became their first Japanese gold disc.
Lenners was fired and replaced with Herman Rarebell shortly before the band began work on 1978's "Taken By Force".
That same year the group undertook their first tour of Japan, shortly afterwards Roth left the band and Michael Schenker returned to the fold.
The subsequent album, "Lovedrive", was recorded with guitarist Matthias Jabs who later replaced Michael Schenker, Scorpions supported the album with its first American tour along with Aerosmith, Ted Nugent and AC/DC, eventually "Lovedrive" cracked the U.S. Top 200 LPs & Tapes chart and entered the top 40 in Britain.
1980's "Animal Magnetism" rose to #23 in U.K. Official Albums chart and hit #52 in U.S. pop chart reaching the gold status.
The band was forced to delay the release of their next LP because Klaus Meine lost his voice, after lengthy vocal retraining and two operations on his vocal chords the lead singer back into the studio with his bandmates to record the breakthrough effort "Blackout" which climbed into the top 10 of the official U.S. Pop Albums chart and went platinum, the record spawned their first American Pop charting single, "No One Like You", the track made an impressive impact at radio and peaked at #1 on Mainstream Rock chart; "Blackout" was also a big hit in Europe where reached the #11 in Britain.
The follow-up, "Love At First Sting", was issued in 1984 and quickly hit #6 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, it smashed into the top 10 of several European charts; its first single, "Rock You Like A Hurricane", reached the #25 on The Billboard Hot 100 and the subsequent single cut, the masterpiece "Still Loving You" helped pump album sales to double-platinum in the States.
The next year saw the release of the live set "World Wide Live".
After two-years hiatus, Scorpions resurfaced in 1988 with "Savage Amusement" which peaked at #5 on Billboard's Top 200 list, the single "Rhythm Of Love" hit #6 on Active Rock chart.
That same year the five-piece outfit became the first international Hard-Rock band to play in USSR, with ten concerts in Leningrad for 350,000 Soviet fans.
In late 1989 they released the collection "Best Of Rockers N' Ballads" which contained the Active Rock top 5 cover-hit-single of The Who's "I Can't Explain".
In 1990 the quintet released "Crazy World", the record immediately became their best-selling album to date, highlighted by the single "Wind Of Change", a power ballad that capitalized on the fall of the Berlin Wall, it reached the #1 in 11 countries; in the United States this single hit #4 on The Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on Mainstream Rock chart, the album peaked at #21 on The Billboard 200 and generated three more Mainstream Rock top 20 hits: "Tease Me, Please Me", "Send Me An Angel" and "Don't Believe Her".
The next year the members of the band were invited to the Kremlin to meet Mikhail Gorbachev.
Scorpions returned to action in the spring of 1993 with "Face The Heat", it didn't rise higher than #24 in U.S. Top 200 and spawned the Active Rock top 10 hit single "Alien Nation" plus "Woman" and "Under The Same Sun" which peaked respectively at #15 and #16 in the same chart.
In the spring of 1995 appeared the live-compilation "Live Bites" which included three previously unreleased tracks including the single "White Dove".
1996's "Pure Instinct" saw a marked drop in sales, its single "Wild Child" reached the #19 spot on Mainstream Rock Tracks.
Three years later "Eye II Eye" missed the American charts, "Mysterious" was a minor hit on Billboard's Active Rock chart.
In August of 2000 the veteran Hard-Rock band released an album entitled "Moment Of Glory" recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
In the summer of 2004 Scorpions resurfaced with an album of all-new-material, "Unbreakable", which featured the single "Love 'Em Or Leave 'Em".

The German Hard-Rock superstars are out with their new album, "Humanity Hour I".

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Lonesome Crow

(1972)

1. I'm Going Mad
2. It All Depends
3. Leave Me
4. In Search Of The Peace Of Mind
5. Inheritance
6. Action
7. Lonesome Crow

 

Fly To The Rainbow

(1974)

1. Speedy's Coming
2. They Need A Million
3. Drifting Sun
4. Fly People Fly
5. This Is My Song
6. Far Away
7. Fly To The Rainbow

 

In Trance

(1975)

1. Dark Lady
2. In Trance
3. Life's Like A River
4. Top Of The Bill
5. Living And Dying
6. Robot Man
7. Evening Wind
8. Sun In My Hand
9. Longing For Fire
10. Night Lights

 

Virgin Killer

(1976)

1. Pictured Life
2. Catch Your Train
3. In Your Park
4. Backstage Queen
5. Virgin Killer
6. Hell Cat
7. Crying Days
8. Polar Nights
9. Yellow Raven

 

Taken By Force

(1978)

1. Steamrock Fever
2. We'll Burn The Sky
3. I've Got To Be Free
4. Riot Of Your Time
5. Sails Of Charon
6. Your Light
7. He's A Woman, She's A Man
8. Born To Touch Your Feelings

 

Lovedrive

(1979)

1. Loving You Sunday Morning
2. Another Piece Of Meat
3. Always Somewhere
4. Coast To Coast
5. Can't Get Enough
6. Is There Anybody Out There?
7. Lovedrive
8. Holiday

 

Animal Magnetism

(1980)

1. Make It Real
2. Don't Make No Promises (Your Body Can't Keep)
3. Hold Me Tight
4. Twentieth Century Man
5. Lady Starlight
6. Falling In Love
7. Only A Man
8. The Zoo
9. Animal Magnetism

 

Blackout

(1982)

1. Blackout
2. Can't Live Without You
3. No One Like You
4. You Give Me All I Need
5. Now!
6. Dynamite
7. Arizona
8. China White
9. When The Smoke Is Going Down

 

Love At First Sting

(1984)

1. Bad Boys Running Wild
2. Rock You Like A Hurricane
3. I'm Leaving You
4. Coming Home
5. The Same Thrill
6. Big City Nights
7. As Soon As The Good Times Roll
8. Crossfire
9. Still Loving You

 

Savage Amusement

(1988)

1. Don't Stop At The Top
2. Rhythm Of Love
3. Passion Rules The Game
4. Media Overkill
5. Walking On The Edge
6. We Let It Rock...You Let It Roll
7. Every Minute Every Day
8. Love On The Run
9. Believe In Love

 

Best Of Rockers 'N' Ballads

(1989)

1. Rock You Like A Hurricane
2. I Can't Explain [NEW TRACK]
3. Still Loving You
4. Big City Nights
5. Lovedrive
6. Holiday
7. Blackout
8. Rhythm Of Love
9. No One Like You
10. You Give Me All I Need
11. Hey You
12. The Zoo

 

Crazy World

(1990)

1.Tease Me, Please Me
2. Don't Believe Her
3. To Be With You In Heaven
4. Wind Of Change
5. Restless Nights
6. Lust Or Love
7. Kicks After Six
8. Hit Between The Eyes
9. Money And Fame
10. Crazy World
11. Send Me An Angel

 

Face The Heat

(1993)

1. Alien Nation
2. No Pain, No Gain
3. Someone To Touch
4. Under The Same Sun
5. Unholy Alliance
6. Woman
7. Hate To Be Nice
8. Taxman Woman
9. Ship Of Fools
10. Nightmarre Avenue
11. Lonely Nights
12. Destin
13. Daddy's Girl

 

Live Bites
[live]

(1995)

1. Tease Me, Please Me
2. Is There Anybody There
3. Rhythm Of Love
4. In Trance
5. No Pain, No Gain
6. When The Smoke Is Going Down
7. Living For Tomorrow
8. Concerto In V
9. Alien Nation
10. Crazy World
11. Wind Of Change
12. Edge Of Time [NEW STUDIO TRACK]
13. Heroes Don't Cry [NEW STUDIO TRACK]
14. White Dove [NEW STUDIO TRACK]

 

Pure Instinct

(1996)

1. Wild Child
2. But The Best For You
3. Does Anyone Know
4. Stone In My Shoe
5. Soul Behind The Face
6. Oh Girl (I Wanna Be With You)
7. When You Came Into My Life
8. Where The River Flows
9. Time Will Call Your Name
10. You And I
11. Are You The One?

 

Eye II Eye

(1999)

1. Mysterious
2. To Be No. 1
3. Obsession
4. 10 Light Years Away
5. Mind Like A Tree
6. Eye To Eye
7. What U Give U Get Back
8. Skywriter
9. Yellow Butterfly
10. Freshly Squeezed
11. Priscilla
12. Du Bist So Schmutzig
13. Aleyah
14. A Moment In A Million Years

 

Unbreakable

(2004)

1. New Generation
2. Love 'Em Or Leave 'Em
3. Deep And Dark
4. Borderline
5. Blood Too Hot
6. Maybe I Maybe You
7. Someday Is Now
8. My City My Town
9. Through My Eyes
10. Can You Feel It
11. This Time
12. She Said
13. Remember The Good Times

 

Humanity Hour I

(2007)

1. Hour I
2. The Game Of Life
3. We Were Born To Fly
4. The Future Never Dies
5. You're Lovin' Me To Death
6. 321
7. Love Will Keep Us Alive
8. We Will Rise Again
9. Your Last Song
10. Love Is War
11. The Cross
12. Humanity

 

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