On their last world tour, in 1984, the Scorpions played to more than 2.2 million fans, and last spring they pulled off a major coup for any band, especially for one labeled "heavy metal": The Scorpions played in Leningrad, the first time a major Western hard-rock group has performed in the Soviet Union.
Their first steps on the road were more like a crawl. The group started out in a Hanover basement studio in 1971 when Schenker persuaded his brother Michael and Meine to leave their band Copernicus and form the Scorpions. Michael left, later going on to UFO and a successful solo career. After several other changes, the band settled with its current lineup: Meine, Schenker, Herman Rarebell (drums), Francis Buchholz (bass) and Matthias Jabs (rhythm guitar).
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In the first month of their "Savage Amusement" tour, the band is ready to give fans another "Scorpions' sting," as Meine is fond of saying. And like Schenker, he doesn't take their success for granted.
The members of Scorpions were pretty old when they first started prowling the Sunset Strip in the late \u201870s. After all, they\u2019d been banging around Europe since 1965 when guitarist Rudolph Schenker founded the band in Hanover, Germany. Their move to the U.S. coincided with a change in record labels and the addition of a young guitarist named Matthias Jabs, which kicked off the most successful period of the band\u2019s existence. 2ff7e9595c
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