SCORPIONS To Be Joined By ULI JON ROTH, MICHAEL SCHENKER At Athens Concert
February 13, 2009According to Metalzone.gr, German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS will headline the Scorpions Festival 2009 on July 6 Karaiskaki stadium in Athens, Greece. This year's edition of the event will include a so-called SCORPIONS "reunion," featuring appearances by various former members of the band, including Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker and Herman Rarebell. Also scheduled to appear at the festival is MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP, with the opening act set to be selected through a competition.
As previously reported, SCORPIONS will receive a lifetime achievement award at this year's ECHO German Music Awards. The band, whose international career began 40 years ago in Hanover, is the most successful German rock group of all time. With over 75 million recordings sold and countless platinum and gold albums, it has influenced generations of rock musicians. The SCORPIONS will accept their ECHO in person on February 21 at Berlin's O2 World and perform an exclusive medley before 10,000 fans.
With albums such as "Blackout" and "Love At First Sting", and hit singles like "Still Loving You" and "Rock You Like a Hurricane", the SCORPIONS not only made German rock history; the group is an international hard rock pioneer and has influenced bands like IRON MAIDEN, BON JOVI and METALLICA. The "SCORPS" are one of today's great, legendary global acts and still enjoy huge success — whether in Russia, India, Japan, Brazil, France, Britain or the USA. During their acclaimed "Humanity - Hour 1" world tour last year they played to over 150,000 fans at concerts in South America, and campaigned massively with Greenpeace for protecting the world's rainforests.
Professionally filmed video footage of SCORPIONS' September 7, 2008 concert in Recife, Brazil can be viewed below. The show originally aired on Brazilian TV.
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