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Scorpions (band)
German rock band
This article is about the German rock band. For other uses, see Scorpion (disambiguation).
Scorpions are a German hard rock band formed in Hanover in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker.[3] The longest-running and most successful line-up of the band included Schenker, Klaus Meine (vocals), Matthias Jabs (lead guitar), Francis Buchholz (bass), and Herman Rarebell (drums), and lasted from 1978 to 1992.
The band's only continuous member has been Schenker, although Meine has been with the band continuously since their first album Lonesome Crow (1972). Jabs has been a consistent member since 1978, while bassist Paweł Mąciwoda and drummer Mikkey Dee have been in the band since 2003 and 2016, respectively.
Lonesome Crow featured Schenker's younger brother Michael on lead guitar, before he departed to join UFO. He was replaced by Uli Jon Roth, who was with the band for their next four studio albums, Fly to the Rainbow (1974), In Tran