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Det er eit verdskjent rockeband som går på scenen laurdag kveld den 3. juli i Skånevik.  Hardrock-hits som Rock You Like A Hurricane, Blackout, Big City Nights, Dynamite, Coast To Coast, The Zoo, Coming Home, Hit between The Eyes and Tease Me Please Me begeistrar millionar av fans rund om i verda.  Scorpions var med og laga sjangeren moderne hardrock.  Saman med Led Zeppelin vert dei sett på som skaparar av hardrock-balladar.  Kven hugsar ikkje Still Loving You, Holiday og Send Me An Angel og meir akustiske melodiar som også appellerte til motstandarar av hardrock.  Wind Of Change blei ein verdskjent hymne til nedrivinga av Berlimuren og jernteppet sitt fall.

Siden tidleg på 80-talet har Scorpions turnert rundt i heile verda.  Dei har toppa plakaten på mange store festivalar og har gitt 100 konsertar kvart år, fleire med  100.000 av tilskodarar.  Dei er det einaste tyske bandet som har gjentatte gongar fylt Madison Square Garden i New York.  Gruppa har seld meir enn 22 millonar album og er den klart mest populære tyske rockegruppa nokon sinne.   Deira siste CD Unbreakeable kom ut i år og har fått ei strålande mottaking.

Du vil få ei rockeoppleving du seint vil gløyma når Scorpions kjem på scenen laurdag kveld under Skånevik Bluesfestival 2004.

Her kan du lesa meir frå biografien til Scorpions:
  In 1999 they took part in the Michael Jackson & Friends benefit concert in Munich’s Olympic Stadium at the personal invitation of the King of Pop. In August 2000, 750,000 Polish rock fans made the pilgrimage to Cracow to experience the SCORPIONS live. Their many special appearances include events like the opening of the Tour de France in 2000 and the international Masters of Endurance motorcycle world championship in Magny-Cours, France, in 2001. Even heads-of-state get in on the act. In May 2003 the SCORPIONS performed in front of an audience including 40 international leaders at the tercentennial celebrations in St. Petersburg. In September 2003 the SCORPIONS played together with the Presidential Orchestra of the Russian Federation in Red Square in Moscow. This mega-spectacle was accompanied by a gigantic pyrotechnical light installation created by the world-renowned pyro-light designer Gert Hof.

The concert set against the world famous backdrop of St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Lenin Mausoleum in front of the Kremlin marks a special high point in the SCORPIONS’ biography. The band has very close ties to Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe. In fact, they’re bonded in a unique musical kinship. Throughout Eastern Europe the SCORPIONS are superstars. In 2002 the SCORPIONS became the first western rock band to stage a tour of 23 concerts right across Russia and the former CIS states from the Baltic to the Sea of Japan. They appeared in major cities on both sides of the Urals, which were unknown territory even for the Russian organisers of the tour. In the once “closed city” of Nizhni Novgorod, formerly Gorky. In historic Volgograd. In Rostov-on-Don. In Samara, Naberezhnyye Chelny, Perm, Ufa. In Ekaterinburg, Tcheliabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Vladivostok. The tour took the SCORPIONS to cities no less marked by history in Ukraine. To Odessa on the Black Sea coast, to Dnepropetrovsk on the Dnepr and to Charkov.

The SCORPIONS were the first internationally known rock band to perform behind the Iron Curtain. That was in 1988 in St. Petersburg, the then Leningrad, where they gave ten sold-out concerts. This was the curtain-raiser to the legendary 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival, the Woodstock of the USSR. SCORPIONS vocalist Klaus Meine forged his experiences into the SCORPIONS’ smash hit Wind of Change. Written in 1989, the song anticipated the lifting of the Iron Curtain and became the anthem of the opening up of Eastern Europe. In 1990 the SCORPIONS performed in reunified Berlin, in Potsdamer Platz, on the site of the newly cleared death strip which had divided the city, in Roger Waters’ rock spectacle The Wall. On December 14th 1991 Michail Gorbachev, the initiator of glasnost and perestroika and last head-of-state and party-leader of the USSR, invited the German SCORPIONS to a rock summit in the Kremlin. Eleven years later, in October 2002, the German SCORPIONS appeared in Volgograd, the former Stalingrad, the most heavily emotive city in recent German-Russian history. In 1999, to mark the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the SCORPIONS were invited by the German government to appear at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, where they were joined by 166 cellists in a performance of Wind Of Change. Conducted by the legendary Russian cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich.
The year 2000 saw the crowning musical honour. The globally celebrated Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, bearer of the legendary Karajan legacy, appeared together with the SCORPIONS at a special event at the EXPO world fair in Hanover. The programme: SCORPIONS’ classics, collected in the joint CD production Moment Of Glory. The title song, composed by Klaus Meine, was also the official anthem of EXPO, the first world fair to be held in Germany in the SCORPIONS’ home city of Hanover.

The Hanover EXPO, June 22nd 2000. It was the “Night of Nights”, the “Battle of the Giants”, a “musical exchange of fire” between rock band and classical orchestra of a standard never heard before. With this crossover project, the SCORPIONS achieved a remarkable bridging operation between orchestral and rock music and accessed an audience that would otherwise never venture into a rock arena. Through the CD and the concert the Berlin Philharmonic achieved sales figures and audience dimensions that are truly exceptional for classical productions. Renowned crossover arranger and conductor Christian Kolonovits from Vienna saw the joint project as nothing less than “an event at which SCORPIONS hits were used to write the history of thirty years of rock music.” Kolonovits achieved the ultimate fusion of these musical antitheses with Crossfire and the Deadly Sting Suite. At the climax of the concert, Kolonovits engaged the two bodies of musicians in such a furious instrumental interchange that even inveterate classical fans among the EXPO premiere audience were literally ripped out of their seats......

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