SCORPIONS – Sting In The Tail [Japan Release] (2010)

Japan release including 2 extra tracks

After the release of STING IN THE TAIL, and a three-year mammoth tour, which will take them across five continents, one of the most successful rock bands in the world, SCORPIONS, will be ending their career.

During their 40-year career, SCORPIONS sold over 100 million albums and received many awards, such as the World Music Award and several Echos (the German equivalent to the Grammy).
Today they still play sold-out venues around the world. Not long ago, 152,000 South Americans came to 15 SCORPIONS concerts between Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City.
Their song “Wind of Change” has become an anthem for the fall of the Iron Curtain.
The tour will launch in the band’s home country Germany in May.
After that, they will be touring through North America before they continue their journey through five other continents until 2012.

Guitarist Rudolf Schenker tells that the prospect of ending Scorpions is indeed “really sad, and I don’t even want to think about it.”
But he explains that the band and its management ultimately feel it’s the right move to end the band on a high note with its new album, “Sting in the Tail”, rather than risk a slow decline.

“You can’t think about Scorpions at 70, not moving on stage, playing ‘Rock You Like a Hurricane’ — but on stage it’s not like a hurricane, it’s a very small wind,” he says.
“There’s no stinger, and that’s not good. You’re going back down hill, from big hall to small how, small how to club…Everything has it’s end; the question is it a good end or bad end?
In this case we want to do these things and make it a good end.”

Regarding the Scorpions members’ future plans, Schenker says that guitarist Matthias Jabs has a musical instruments store in Munich, while drummer James Kottak has his own band, Kottak.
Rudolf himself intends to publish his book, “Rock You Live,” in the U.S. and plans a collaboration with his brother a Michael Schenker — which may include Scorpions’ singer Klaus Meine on some songs.

Good and last album from the legend Scorpions with an ’80s feel, to rock the World!

The japanese version includes “Let’s Rock” (not present in the USA version) and the exclusive bonus track “Thunder And Lightning”.

1- Raised On Rock
2- Sting In The Tail
3- Slave Me
4- The Good Die Young (guest Tarja Turunen)
5- No Limit
6- Rock Zone
7- Lorelei
8- Turn You On
9- Let’s Rock (not in the USA version)
10- SLY
11- Spirit Of Rock
12- The Best Is Yet to Come
13- Thunder And Lightning ( Japan bonus track)

Klaus Meine: vocals
Rudolf Schenker: guitars
Matthias Jabs: guitars
Pavel Maciwoda: bass
James Kottak: drums
Tarja Turunen: background vocals