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Share a song from your favorite band.

Show us why you get up in the morning.

Scorpions

Show us your last text message.

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...yeah. I'm not going to tell you anything about that.

Show us your favorite painting.

Crocodile Tears, the inspiration for the name of the 1988 Scorpions album, Savage Amusement. I don't like the style of the painting, but I love the theme. After all, I'm not that kinda person that is interested in paintings.

Show us what you're working on right now.

I'm working on my school "speech"! It's about the Scorpions, of course. This is the uncorrected version, but I'll post it here anyway.

"Good morning / afternoon my dear friends,

I am going to tell you about a thing that changed my life.

In 1965 a group of young German boys, including Rudolf Schenker, appeared on the stage for the first time, in other words, a band called Nameless played their first gig.
I’m talking about the Scorpions, of course. At first, the band was school-kind with beat influences and Schenker himself on vocals. Things began to come together in 1971 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, the Scorpions opened for a British heavy metal band UFO. At the end of the tour the members of UFO asked Michael Schenker to join the band, which he did. A friend of the Schenkers’, Uli Jon Roth, finished off the tour on lead guitar.
The departure of Michael Schenker made the Scorpions break up. In 1973, Uli Jon Roth’s band Dawn Road and the members of Scorpions united and the Scorpions released their second album, Fly to the Rainbow, in 1974. It was their rise to popularity.

In 1975 the Scorpions released their third album, In Trance, which had a huge hit song, In Trance. In 1976 they released an album named Virgin Killer. In the cover of Virgin Killer was a teenaged girl wearing nothing and because of that the album couldn’t be released in several countries. The cover picture was changed to a simple picture of the band.
In 1977 they released Taken by Force and in 1978 they released a live album, Tokyo Tapes, which obviously was recorded in Japan. After the Japanese tour Uli Jon Roth left the band and he was replaced by Matthias Jabs.
In 1979 Scorpions left RCA for Mercury Records to record their next album. Just weeks after being evicted from UFO for his alcohol abuse, Michael Schenker also returned to the group for a short period during the recordings of the album. The result was Lovedrive. Containing such fan favorites as “Loving You Sunday Morning”, “Holiday” and the instrumental “Coast to Coast”, the “Scorpions formula” of hard rock songs mixed in with melodic ballads was firmly cemented. Lovedrive was the most successful Scorpions album so far.
In 1980 the Scorpions released Animal Magnetism, which was a critical disappointment when compared with Lovedrive.
During the recordings of the next album, in 1981, Klaus Meine lost his voice and was leaving the band, but fortunately those men stuck together and Blackout was finally released in 1982 and it quickly became the band’s best selling album, it sold platinum. There were three hit singles on Blackout: “Blackout”, “Dynamite” and “No One Like You”.

It was not until 1984 and the release of Love at First Sting that the band finally became a monster of rock. Love at First Sting included the 80’s rock anthem “Rock You Like a Hurricane”, the classic ballad “Still Loving You” and many other hit songs.
In 1985, during the Love at First Sting tour, the Scorpions recorded and released their first live album with Matthias Jabs, World Wide Live.
After three years, in 1988, they released Savage Amusement, and in 1990 they released their best selling album so far, Crazy World. Crazy World had many hit singles, including “Send Me an Angel”, but one song was the greatest of all. The song was Wind of Change, the ballad that made a change.

In 1993 the Scorpions released Face the Heat, which was the heaviest Scorpions album ever. It had a few hits, and an attractive song, Daddy’s Girl, that considers child exploitation.
In 1995 they released their third live album, Live Bites, which wasn’t so successful when compared with World Wide Live.
In 1996 they released their 13^th studio album, Pure Instinct. During the recordings of the album, the band’s drummer, Herman Rarebell, left the band, and was replaced by Curt Cress, but after a little while an American drummer James Kottak took over permanently.
In 1999 Eye to Eye was released. It was a terrible mistake for the band. The album was a mixture of rock, pop and techno and had electronic drums on several tracks.

In 2000 the Scorpions recorded an album with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and named it Moment of Glory. The album was full of colossal versions of the classic Scorpions songs from the past.
In 2001 they released Acoustica, their fourth live album. Acoustica contained acoustic versions of a few Scorpions songs, a cover of The Cars’ song Drive and a few new songs.

After five years since the last studio album, in 2004, the Scorpions finally released Unbreakable. Unbreakable was the band’s return to rock music.

In May 2007 the Scorpions released their latest album, Humanity: Hour I, that is produced by Desmond Child. The album has a dark sound and it definitely proves that even though a couple band members are close to the age of 60 years, they can still kick ass.

I don’t know if the Scorpions is a love story or a story of love. What I know is that it is a story of true friendship. A story, that can make people make a change. A story, that can make the world a better place.
And how did those men and their music effect on me after all? They made me realise the meaning of life, at least the meaning of my life. Thanks to the Scorpions, I know everything in the world isn’t just for me. Even though all bad in the world is not my fault, I still know that my responsibility is to help people and stand by the oppressed.
So, isn’t that something?"