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    NEVER SAY DIE

    Jan 12, 2021 4 minutes
    BY MARK McSTEA

    MICHAEL SCHENKER IS about to celebrate his 50th anniversary in the music business, since joining Scorpions in 1971. His first appearance on record was at the age of 16 in 1972, on Lonesome Crow, the debut Scorpions album. Soon after, the band was on tour opening for the U.K. hard-rock act UFO when Schenker accepted their offer to join. “I always said to the guys in Scorpions that if an English band asked me to join them, I wouldn’t hesitate,” Schenker recalls today. “England looked like the place to be if you wanted to have a career playing rock and roll, not Germany.”

    Schenker’s work with UFO saw him quickly join the ranks of the great ’70s guitar heroes. His style under the Michael Schenker Group banner in January 2021. Coronavirus permitting, a world tour is set to follow later in the year.

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