Scorpions

This band was formed the year I was born in.  But it took them seven years before releasing their first album, and it took them some years to become famous worldwide, although in the rock scene they already had made some reputation.  They acquired international success with their 1984 singe ‘Still Loving You’, taken from the ‘Love At First Sting’ album. 

Missing on the CDs which you dó have on the DVD, are the inevitable short breaks in between the songs, and some of the cheering, I guess...enough to shorten the first 12 songs by about 5 minutes, and the next 13 by more than 10 minutes [I cannot believe there were actually that many “dead moments” in the show, but hey, make the count for yourself : the complete concerts lasted 2 hours and 6 minutes (not counting the extra time for allowing everyone involved in the show to come to the front center of stage to make a final bow for the audience) and the discs last 54: 11 and 55:04!].

Ach...the Scorpions...seems weird, but thinking back it was my younger brother whom got me interested in Hard Rock music, and I remember that, before he introduced me to Kiss (the band which took me over the line to start a collection of records), his two foremost band in his collection were AC/DC (which I originally found sounding far too sharp – but that was due to the lousy small record player he had) and Scorpions (the band which I originally branded as “too sweet” for my taste – of course, I redeemed myself discovering