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The Scorpions are a melodic metal band, originally from Hannover, Germany.
Founded in 1965, by rhythm guitarist Rudolf Schenker, though the official founding year is 1969 when Schenker's little brother and Klaus Meine joined the band. The Scorpions spent their first fifteen years as a largely unheralded German hard rock band, popular in Europe and Japan but unable to crack the large American market. Still, the band made significant progress in that regard between 1979 and 1983 on the strength of the albums Lovedrive and Blackout.
However, it was the 1984 release of Love at First Sting which finally secured the band massive commercial visibility with American audiences. Powered by the success of the single "Rock You Like A Hurricane" the Scorpions assumed a premier role in heavy metal. The band enjoyed a high degree of success through the early 1990s thanks to the release of the Crazy World album in 1990 and the single "Wind of Change." The song muses on the socio-political changes occurring in Eastern Europe and in the other parts of the world in the end of the Cold War. They were the first western group to play in the former Soviet Union, and on July 21, 1990 they joined many other guests for Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin. The Scorpions performed both versions of "In The Flesh" from The Wall.
In 1992 Bassist Francis Buchholz was fired from the band for Theft of 10 million dollars (the band is censuring his name on the official forum) just before “Face the Heat�?. The album opened with the heavy metal song “Alien Nation�?, that many headbangers consider to be Scorpions best work.
For ten years, Scorpions experimented with their music, trying to catch fans deriving from hard rock to other trends, like grunge, alternative or whatsoever. They experimented pop-rock, philarmony orchestra, unplugged, yet not reaching the vets of their 80's.
Their ultimate album "Unbreakable" is a follow back to the roots. It features one of the best ballads they have ever written: Maybe I, Maybe You"
Early in the 1990s, the popular term scorpions appeared in Albania, a term used to mark young people with trendy haircuts and with avantgarde musical taste. But Scorpions performed in Albania for the first time only in summer 2000.