![]() ![]() “Their energy and the ability to play - and how good they still are - is pretty remarkable.”įifty years – “it sounds so damn old!” says the 67-year-old Meine with a laugh. “To really get the band, you need to see them live - still,” says Eddie Trunk, syndicated satellite radio personality and host of VH1 Classic’s That Metal Show. Scorpions already had established their reputation as a live act through constant touring and high-profile bookings like the US Festival in 1983 (staged by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak near San Bernardino, Calif.) and Van Halen’s 1984 Monsters of Rock tour. When Roger Waters staged Pink Floyd’s The Wall in 1990 near Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, Scorpions joined the ensemble, which included Bryan Adams, The Band, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and Sinéad O’Connor. ![]() Their song “Wind of Change,” released in the wake of the fall of Berlin Wall, became an anthem of the end of the Cold War. Songs like “The Zoo,” “Still Loving You” and “Rock You Like a Hurricane” (No. 18 on VH1’s list of the 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs) are enduring rock radio hits - and favorites of would-be rockers playing the Guitar Hero and Rock Band video games. 10 in 1982), Love at First Sting (No. 6 in 1984) and Savage Amusement (No. In its 1980s heyday, the band sent three albums into the upper reaches of the Billboard 200: Blackout (No. Scorpions have sold 7.4 million albums stateside since 1991, according to Nielsen Music, and been certified for 10 million sales by the RIAA. Yahoo Live will stream the group’s Brooklyn show at Barclays Center on Sept. 12. On Sept. 10, the group opens the North American leg of its 50th-anniversary tour in Boston, with a new album, Return to Forever, set for release the next day. ![]() Scorpions - which Schenker formed 50 years ago in Hanover, Germany - did indeed break out of its homeland to become successful in the United States and around the globe, with multiplatinum sales, top 10 hits on the Billboard 200 and a legacy as one of the best live metal bands. ![]() “There was no German band before who became successful in the United States.” ” ‘Keep on dreaming,’ ” he remembers the producer saying. Mickey Guyton, Robert Glasper Headline Otis Redding Center for the Arts Fundraiser ![]()
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