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''[[Metal Scream|Come on and get it!]]"''|"Can't Live Without You"}}▼
[[Scorpions]] is a German rock band formed in 1965 in Hannover by Rudolf Schenker (vocals/guitar), Lothar Heimberg (bass) and Wolfgang Dziony (drums), which only started to actually take shape four years later with Rudolf's younger brother Michael Schenker and Klaus Meine joining on guitar and vocals, respectively. While touring to promote their debut album, Michael, still an 18-year-old young gun, joined British rock band UFO in 1973 (at the start of their classic phase) and was replaced by Uli Jon Roth, who was a mainstay until 1978, when Matthias Jabs took over. While the bassist and drummer positions have changed over the course of four and a half decades, the Meine-Schenker-Jabs trio stayed on... and the rest is history.▼
▲{{quote|''"Stand up and shout<br />
▲We're ready to rock, we're ready to roll<br />
▲Stand up and shout<br />
▲Are you ready? Are you ready?...<br />
▲[[Metal Scream|Come on and get it!]]"''|"Can't Live Without You"}}
▲Scorpions is a German rock band formed in 1965 in Hannover by Rudolf Schenker (vocals/guitar), Lothar Heimberg (bass) and Wolfgang Dziony (drums), which only started to actually take shape four years later with Rudolf's younger brother Michael Schenker and Klaus Meine joining on guitar and vocals, respectively. While touring to promote their debut album, Michael, still an 18-year-old young gun, joined British rock band UFO in 1973 (at the start of their classic phase) and was replaced by Uli Jon Roth, who was a mainstay until 1978, when Matthias Jabs took over. While the bassist and drummer positions have changed over the course of four and a half decades, the Meine-Schenker-Jabs trio stayed on... and the rest is history.
With 7 gold records and 11 platinums in the US (15 golds and 9 platinums in their homeland) and 18 songs charting at the Mainstream Rock Tracks (among which "No One Like You" reached #1), Scorpions are perhaps the most worldwide successful rock band to ever come from a non-English speaking country - even though they would only have a belated recognition in America.
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* Herman Rarebell: drummer (1977-1995)
* ''Lonesome Crow'' (1972)
* ''Fly to the Rainbow'' (1974)
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* ''Tokyo Tapes'' (1978)
** First live album (and a double album, at that).
* ''Lovedrive'' (1979)
* ''Animal Magnetism'' (1980)
* ''Blackout'' (1982)
* ''Love at First Sting'' (1984)
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* ''Comeblack'' (2011)
** Re-recordings of older songs, plus a few covers.
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* [[Album Title Drop]]:
* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: "The Best is Yet to Come", closing track of their (presumably) final album, ''Sting in the Tail''.
** On a side note, this song was an outtake from ''Unbreakable'' that didn't make the cut.
* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: Somewhat. While it's not known if Rudolf taught Michael to play guitar or not, it is a fact that Michael became interested and started playing with his big bro after he (Rudolf) bought a guitar.
** Michael has stated in interviews that he learned guitar when Rudolf would pay him to learn songs from records and teach him to play them, because Rudolf was too interested in girls and soccer to bother with it on his own.
* [[Classical Mythology]]: a [[Shout
* [[Contemptible Cover]]: A few, most notably ''[[Lolicon|Virgin Killer]]''.
** Averted with ''Taken by Force''. RCA, presumably shell-shocked by then, changed it anyway to a [[Minimalistic Cover Art|plain black cover]] with [[Floating Head Syndrome|band photos]].
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Can you believe Rudolf's 62?
** Klaus counts too: he's the same age and still can sing and wail like that. '''Wow.'''
* [[Cover Version]]: Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog" and [[Little Richard]]'s "Long Tall Sally" in ''Tokyo Tapes'', [[The Who]]'s "I Can't Explain" for a collection album in the late 80s, [[Queen]]'s "Love of My Life", [[
* [[Doing It for
** This rift is documented in "I've Got to be Free", from ''Taken By Force''. What's hilarious is that Roth wrote a song about his disgruntlement, and then ''made Meine sing it''.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: "He's a Woman, She's a Man", from ''Taken by Force''.
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* [[Epic Rocking]]: Many long tracks on their first two albums, especially "Lonesome Crow" and "In Search of the Peace of Mind". The live versions of "We'll Burn the Sky" and "Fly to the Rainbow" are around ten minutes apiece. "China White", from ''Blackout''. ''Taken by Force'' ends with the 8-minute ballad "Born to Touch Your Feelings".
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: "Kami o Shinjiru" (lit. "Believe in God"), bonus track in ''Face the Heat'' - appropriately enough, in the Japanese edition only. Understandable, given the huge fanbase they have there.
** Note that the song is in English (except for the [[Title
* [[Grief Song]]: Roth took carrying on in [[
* [[Heavy Meta]]: "Rock You Like a Hurricane", "We Let It Rock... You Let It Roll", "Raised on Rock", "Can't Live Without You"
** "Speedy's Coming" and "Steamrock Fever", from their earlier years.
* [[Hey,
** Klaus himself pulled this with his appearance on [[Avantasia]]'s ''The Wicked Symphony''.
** Don [[
* [[Intercourse
** So much that, in fact, "Still Loving You" sparked a baby boom in France in the mid-80s!
* [[International Pop Song English]]: Klaus Meine's singing voice is in marked contrast to when [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrNvJhk_FY4 he gives out] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAQaDfwGFcU interviews].
* [[Large Ham]]: Klaus Meine.
* [[Last
* [[Lolicon]]: The original cover of ''Virgin Killer'' featured a naked pre-teen girl. Naturally, [[Moral Guardians|some people]] weren't pleased with this, so they had to change the cover.
* [[Long Runners]]: They've been around since 1965, and only now considered stopping.
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** 7: "Now!", "Dynamite" (the latter dipping into 8)
** "Virgin Killer" should rate around an 8, possibly also "Animal Magnetism" and "The Sails of Charon".
* [[Music
** A professional hockey team in their hometown Hannover even ''named'' themselves after the band.
* [[New Sound Album]]: ''Eye II Eye''. Possibly, it tanked simply because of this.
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* [[Power Ballad]]: "Still Loving You", "No One Like You", "Holiday", "When the Smoke is Going Down", "Wind of Change", "Send Me An Angel"...
** "In Trance" is one of the earliest power ballads: not the [[Ur Example]], but a [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Protest Song]]: Much in the same vein of [[
* [[Rearrange the Song]]: What ''Moment of Glory'' was all about.
* [[Revolving Door Band]]: Lineup didn't stabilize until 1979.
* [[Rockstar Song]]: "Can't Live Without You". "Always Somewhere" provides another take, in which living on the road keeps the musician apart from his loved one.
* [[Sex Drugs and Rock N Roll]]: Well, minus the drugs. Very well illustrated in "Now!".
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Strictly Formula]]: ''Unbreakable'', in reaction to the bad reception its studio predecessor got.
* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: "Blackout" (the song):
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But I'm too wrecked to care anyway
I look around and see this face
What the hell, have I lost my taste?
Don't want to find out
Just want to cut out'' }}
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