SCORPIONS

Scorpions
Background information
Origin	Hanover, Germany
Genres	Heavy metal, hard rock
Years active	1965 - present
Labels	Rhino, RCA, Mercury, EMI, Atlantic, WEA, BMG
Website	Official website
Members
Klaus Meine Matthias Jabs Rudolf Schenker James Kottak Paweł Mąciwoda
Past members
See: List of former members

Scorpions are a heavy metal^[1][2][3][4]/hard rock^[5][6][7] band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change". The band has sold over 100 million albums worldwide ^[8] and were ranked #46 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock program.^[9]

Band members

Current members

• Klaus Meine - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion, tambourine, backing vocals (1970-present)
• Matthias Jabs - lead & rhythm guitars (1978-present)
• Rudolf Schenker - rhythm & lead guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Hey You" (1965-present)
• Paweł Mąciwoda - bass, backing vocals (2003-present)
• James Kottak - drums, percussion, backing vocals (1996-present)

Former members

• Lothar Heimberg - bass, backing vocals (1965-1973)
• Wolfgang Dziony - drums, percussion (1965-1973)
• Michael Schenker - lead & rhythm guitars (1970-1973, 1979)
• Ulrich Roth - lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Drifting Sun", "Fly to the Rainbow", "Dark Lady", "Sun in My Hand", "Hell Cat", "Polar Nights" (1973-1978)
• Francis Buchholz - bass, backing vocals (1973-1983, 1984-1992, 1994)
• Achim Kirschning - keyboards (1973-1974)
• Joe Wyman - drums, percussion (1973)
• Jürgen Rosenthal - drums, percussion (1973-1975)
• Rudy Lenners - drums, percussion (1975-1977)
• Herman Rarebell - drums, percussion (1977-1983, 1984-1995)
• Don Dokken - lead vocals, backing vocals (1981)
• Jimmy Bain - bass (1983-1984)
• Neil Murray - bass (1983-1984)
• Bobby Rondinelli - drums, percussion (1983-1984)
• Ralph Rieckermann - bass (1993-2000, 2000-2003)
• Curt Cress - drums, percussion (1996)
• Ken Taylor - bass (2000)
• Barry Sparks - bass (2004)
• Ingo Powitzer - bass (2004)

Manager

• Stewart Young (1995-Present)

Albums

• Lonesome Crow (1972)
• Fly to the Rainbow (1974)
• In Trance (1975)
• Virgin Killer (1976)
• Taken by Force (1977)
• Tokyo Tapes (1978, live)
• Lovedrive (1979)
• Animal Magnetism (1980)
• Blackout (1982)
• Love at First Sting (1984)
• World Wide Live (1985, live)
• Savage Amusement (1988)
• Crazy World (1990)
• Face the Heat (1993)
• Live Bites (1995, live)
• Pure Instinct (1996)
• Eye II Eye (1999)
• Moment of Glory (with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 2000)
• Acoustica (2001, acoustic)
• Unbreakable (2004)
• Humanity: Hour I (2007)
• Sting in the Tail (2010)