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Scorpions - Taken By Force cover art

Scorpions mix hard rock, pop and metal on the pre-stardom classic Taken By Force

By Classic Rock Magazine published

The Scorpions' last album with Uli Jon Roth and first with Herman Rarebell sums them up in the year that punk broke

Albums
Scorpions posing for a photograph in 1984

The 80s metal anthem that turned the band who wrote it into global superstars – and the X-rated title it nearly had

By Dom Lawson published

Things could have turned out very different if the drummer had his way

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Bands & Artists
Francis Buchholz

Former Scorpions / Michael Schenker bassist Francis Buchholz dead at 71

By Paul Brannigan published

"Though the strings have gone silent, his soul remains in every note he played and in every life he touched"

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Bands & Artists
Scorpions posing for a photograph in the late 1970s

Written in a church and inspired by excess, this dark Scorpions classic is still one of their strangest songs

By Dave Ling published

It drew on psychedelia and Debussy

Bands & Artists
Klaus Maine and Rudolf Schenker (studio portrait)

RudolfSchenker and Klaus Meine look back at 60 years of Scorpions

By James McNair published

How Scorpions went from being called ‘the worst German import since the V2 bomb’ to much-loved rock royalty

Bands & Artists
Scorpions press shot

Review: Sixty years of the Scorpions celebrated on From The First Sting

By Essi Berelian published

Anniversary fun from pioneering German rockers the Scorpions

Bands & Artists
Photographs of Lemmy from Motorhead, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden and Guns N’ Roses Axl Rose

30 rock and metal songs that defined the 1980s

By Classic Rock published

From AC/DC and Iron Maiden to Guns N’ Roses and Faith No More, this is the soundtrack to a decade

Bands & Artists
Michael Schenker onstage in 2007

Michael Schenker and the appetite for self-destruction

By Dave Ling published

Confronting Michael Schenker with the truth about Michael Schenker

Biographies
Scorpions posing for a photograph in 1984

The epic story of the Scorpions, the German band who smashed through the barriers to conquer America

By Dave Ling published

The Scorpions proved that Britain and the US didn’t have the monopoly on hard rock and heavy metal

Interviews
Klaus Meine onstage

Scorpions cancel three shows as illness leaves Klaus Meine with "inability to sing"

By Fraser Lewry published

The Scorpions' 60th Anniversary Tour is scheduled to arrive in Europe next month

Concerts & Shows
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