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  Scorpions Unleash “Peacemaker” Ahead of New Album Rock Believer: Stream

  The German hard rock pioneers' 19th studio album arrives February 25th. Scorpions Unleash “Peacemaker” Ahead of New Album Rock Believer: Stream Jon Hadusek

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  Scorpions Promise Piece of Berlin Wall with Every Copy of New Box Set

  Box sets from classic rock bands have sometimes come under criticism for excessive trinkets — like the marbles included in some of Pink Floyd's — but fans may not be so quick to roll away a bonus included in a forthcoming collection from the Scorpions: a piece of the Berlin Wall. The release, which is […]

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  Can a power ballad change the world? The astonishing true story behind The Scorpions' Wind of Change

  In June 1994, Klaus Meine received a knock on the door of his Memphis hotel room from a CIA agent. With his band the Scorpions in town to play a concert at the Mud Island Amphitheater, the singer was asked to whistle the opening bars of the Hanoverian quintet’s biggest hit, Wind Of Change. Bemused but obliging, Meine complied; satisfied, the visitor bid him a good day without crossing the threshold of his room. This puzzling but minor incident is the kind of detail with which the Orwell Prize-wi

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  Rolling Stone

  Scorpions' 'Wind of Change': The Oral History of 1990's Epic Power Ballad

  In the 1980s and very early Nineties, every hard-rock and metal act worth their leathers scored big with a power ballad or two. But only Germany's the Scorpions can say that one of theirs — in this case, 1990's "Wind of Change" — also served as a soundtrack of sorts to...

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