Rudolf Schenker Events

1972 Feb Scorpions release their first album Lonesome Crow
Lonesome Crow is the first album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions produced by Conny Plank and released in 1972. It is the band's only album with lead guitarist Michael Schenker...
1974 Nov 1 Scorpions release Fly to the Rainbow
Fly to the Rainbow is the second studio album by German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1974. In support of their Lonesome Crow album, Scorpions appeared as the opening act for th...
1975 Sep 17 Scorpions release In Trance
In Trance is the third studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1975, The album's music was the complete departure from the progressive Krautrock of the two prev...
1976 Oct 9 Scorpions release Virgin Killer
Virgin Killer is the fourth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions. It was released in 1976 and was the first album of the band to attract attention outside Europe. The tit...
1978 Scorpions release Tokyo Tapes
Tokyo Tapes is a live album by German heavy metal band Scorpions. "Tokyo Tapes" was Scorpions' first live album, recorded at Sun Plaza Hall (Tokyo, Japan) on April 24 and 27, during th...
1978 Jan Scorpions release Taken by Force
Taken By Force is the fifth studio album by German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1978. This was the final Scorpions album to feature guitarist Ulrich Jon Roth. Roth left the ban...
1979 Feb 25 Scorpions release Lovedrive
Lovedrive is the sixth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1979. Lovedrive was a major evolution of the band's sound, which exhibited their "classic style" ...
1980 Mar 31 Scorpions release Animal Magnetism
Animal Magnetism is the seventh studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1980. The RIAA certified Animal Magnetism as Gold on 8 March 1984, and Platinum on 28 Oc...
1982 Mar 29 Scorpions release Blackout
Blackout is the eighth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1982. After losing his voice during the writing of the album, lead vocalist Klaus Meine had to...
1984 Mar 27 Scorpions release Love at First Sting
Love at First Sting is the ninth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1984. Love at First Sting became the most successful album of the band in the USA where...
1985 Jun 20 Scorpions release World Wide Live
World Wide Live is a live album by German heavy metal band Scorpions released in 1985, produced by Dieter Dierks. It was originally released as a 2LP vinyl set, in a gatefold-sleeve, a...
1988 Apr 16 Scorpions release Savage Amusement
Savage Amusement is the tenth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1988. It peaked at #5 in the USA where it became platinum on June 20, 1988. The album w...
1989 Nov 14 Scorpions release Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads
Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads is an official compilation album of 1980s hits by the German rock band Scorpions, released in 1989 on the Mercury Records label. The title is considered by som...
1990 Nov 6 Scorpions release Crazy World
Crazy World is the eleventh studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions released in November 1990. Crazy World peaked at number 21 on Billboard 200 Chart for albums in 1991. The...
1993 Sep 21 Scorpions release Face the Heat
Face the Heat is the twelfth studio album (14th including major live recordings) released by the German heavy metal band Scorpions in 1993. It was produced by the band and the late Bru...
1995 Apr 18 Scorpions release Live Bites
Live Bites is a live album by German heavy metal band Scorpions released in 1995. It was recorded between 1988 and 1994 in Leningrad (Russia), San Francisco (USA), Mexico City (Mexico)...
1996 May 21 Scorpions release Pure Instinct
Pure Instinct is the thirteenth studio album by German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1996. The cover art for this album like many previous Scorpions album cover was replaced ...
1997 Jul 15 Scorpions release Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years
Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years is a two disc set compilation album of hits, two live versions and two previously unreleased songs by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released by Me...
1999 Mar 9 Scorpions release Eye II Eye
Eye II Eye is the fourteenth studio album by German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1999. It is a radical departure in that Eye II Eye is much more pop-oriented than their previou...
2000 Aug 29 Scorpions release Moment of Glory
Moment of Glory is a 2000 album by German heavy metal band Scorpions with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. All titles were arranged by Christian Kolonovits. At first the English compose...
2004 Jun 22 Scorpions release Unbreakable
Unbreakable is the fifteenth studio album by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 2004. In this album, Scorpions return to their original, more raw style of music after many...
2007 May 14
to 2007 Aug 28
 Scorpions release Humanity: Hour I
Humanity: Hour I is a concept album (and sixteenth studio recording) by the German heavy metal band Scorpions, which was released in Europe on May 14, 2007 and in the United States and Ca...
2010 Mar 19 Scorpions release Sting in the Tail
Sting in the Tail is the seventeenth studio album by German heavy metal band Scorpions. It was released on March 19, 2010 in Europe (March 14 in Greece) and was released on March 23 in No...