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SCORPIONS: Footage Of Sofia Press Conference Available

October 26, 2010

German hard rockers SCORPIONS played their "farewell" show in Sofia, Bulgaria this past Monday night (October 25) at Akademik Stadium in front of 15,000 fans.

According to Novinite.com, the SCORPIONS said goodbye to their Bulgarian fans by performing some of their biggest hits like "Wind of Change", "Holiday", "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and "Still Loving You", as well as as very special "Happy Birthday" to the group's guitarist, Matthias Jabs.

At the end of the show, SCORPIONS came out for an encore, wrapped in a Bulgarian flag, thrown on stage by a fan.

Check out photos at this location.

The band's setlist was as follows:

01. Sting In The Tail
02. Make It Real
03. Bad Boys Running Wild
04. The Zoo
05. Coast To Coast
06. Loving You Sunday Morning
07. The Best Is Yet To Come
08. Holiday
09. Wind Of Change
10. Raised on Rock
11. Tease Me Please Me
12. Dynamite
13. Kottak Attack
14. Blackout
15. Guitar Solo Matthias Jabs / Six String Sting
16. Big City Nights

Encore:

17. Still Loving You
18. Rock You Like A Hurricane

Video footage of the pre-concert press conference can be viewed below.

The farewell tour by the iconic band — Klaus Meine (vocals),Matthias Jabs (lead guitar),Rudolf Schenker (guitar),James Kottak (drums) and Pawel Maciwoda (bass) — is in support of their latest album, "Sting In The Tail" (Universal Music Enterprises). It entered the U.S. chart at No. 23, marking the band's highest chart debut in over 20 years.

The SCORPIONS' tour — in celebration of 40-plus years in music— has been a massive success in a soft touring economy, with the group filling many of the arenas they performed at in the United States and Canada.

In a recent interview with Billboard's Ray Waddell, Meine said, "What can I say? It's a celebration… We feel we owe it to our fans and ourselves to keep this energy level. What we pull off every night on this tour, we want to keep it that way to the very last show. We don't want to see ourselves rocking like a hurricane when it's not a hurricane anymore."

(Thanks: Metal Hangar 18)

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