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Scorpions are a hard rock/heavy metal band from Hannover, Germany, best known for their 1980s 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 70 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 (keyboards) and Jurgen Rosenthal (drums).

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Top Tracks

1	Wind of Change full track	5,148
2	Rock You Like a Hurricane full track	4,092
3	Still Loving You full track	4,086
4	Send Me an Angel full track	2,815
5	No One Like You full track	2,150
6	Holiday full track	1,551
7	Big City Nights full track	1,325
8	Always Somewhere full track	1,256
9	The Zoo full track	1,008
10	Rhythm of Love full track	878
10	Blackout full track	878
12	When the Smoke Is Going Down full track	835
13	Humanity full track	800
14	Loving You Sunday Morning full track	626
15	Bad Boys Running Wild full track	615

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norma48 wrote:
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i love scorpions

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ArtSlash wrote:
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BEST

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ititokotoko wrote:
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Hello everybody!I WANT TO SAVE THE ROCK!!! There is a big problem! There is a new band called Giant! In last.fm http://www.last.fm/music/Giant with the same name is the old AOR band Giant and the experimental doom metal band Giant.When users listening "Giant" they see the same name,different pictures and different similar artists-something like this: Tides, Rosetta, Winger,Bonfire..... I want to ask you to visit this link http://www.last.fm/music/Giant/+images and give your negative vote about every picture of the experimental doom metal band.This is really important!This is the way to erase their photos like default pictures for this band.They change every day the info of the band writing for their experimental band and trying to erase the aor band Giant!This isn`t fair!You must give you positive vote about every pictures of the AOR band Giant : and tell for this on your friend!Chears! Sorry, but this isn`t the way to bacome famous -using Dann Huff`s band! Thank you!

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Join Rock Ballads group: http://www.lastfm.com.br/group/Rock+Ballads

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unbreakable- wrote:
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I totally agree with Lionheartattack, one big reason to be proud to be European.

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Carolle- wrote:
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AWESOME !

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Viggetorr wrote:
last month

Scorpions? Nah.

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Estrely16lv wrote:
last month

i think my fav song is " Still Loving You"

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sartt wrote:
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супер :) cool

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danceoutheworld wrote:
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hmm~~~~whistle~~~wooooooooooooooooooo

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Milhaud wrote:
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http://cadadiauncantar.blogspot.com/2008/08/scorpions-wind-of-change.html

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pexxy wrote:
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★ yAAAHH

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mikeWasouski wrote:
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No one like them !!!! XD

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JennaClem wrote:
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You Are the One...

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Estrely16lv wrote:
last month

<333

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aydannn wrote:
last month

bu adamın sesine bayılıyorum . 2 gündür aralıksız hiç bıkmadan send me an angel dinliyorum . sanırım bu şarkıyı dinleyerek ölicem .

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jpelorat_sg wrote:
last month

The way to listen to this band...... LIVE!!!!

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thegangsta123 wrote:
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then join this group! http://www.lastfm.it/group/Sex%2C+Drugs+and+Rock+n%27+Roll

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Lionheartattack wrote:
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Speaking of it, I like European style hell of a lot of more than American. European bands somehow are claerer - airy. More melodic, better singers. Music has personality, they don't seem dry. I bet grunge's left some kind of dryness into American rock music. It was great with Nirvana, but those who try to sound energitic... not working! Scorpions, on the other hand, don't stuck (or, haven't always been stuck) to fucking two guitar riffs - they've done it all.

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PhenomV2 wrote:
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The Germans seem to have a knack for Rock...Accept and Scorpions like...awesome....like the NWOBHM, NWOAHM, it is the NWOGHM.....

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