All language subtitles for Scorpions Forever and a day-ITA-en

50 years.

100 million records sold

The Scorpions have announced today

that after 40 years, they will go on tour for
last time.

We will not refresh ourselves in a nursing home.

We stop with music. And the music is
Our life.

It is impossible for a rock star
accept to get old and do it with honor.

The question is: "When that will arrive
moment? "

Let's say that at some point we have
Make this right decision

even if on the other hand we realize
how difficult and hard will be.

But it is much more exciting than
We thought.

This is not the case of the Scorpions, but a
times see artists,

who try to pretend to be 20 years old,
even if they have more than 60.

Basically I think it's a bit
sad at the bottom,

Because getting old too is beautiful.

To avoid this, I think we have
decided at the right time,

to continue for some time
And then resolve us definitively.

Less 18 months at the last concert of the
Farewell tour.

.

It was 1965.

I still lived in Sarstedt.

And my schoolmate was Michael
Schenker.

His older brother already had a band,

which initially tried in a bar
at the corner of our neighborhood.

Michael and I went to the skates and
We were out of listening.

The sound that came out of that bar was
Simply incredible.

It was all new for us.

Scorpions is Rudolf's band. He has them
he founded him. It has always been from the beginning.

It was the first thing he did. There
He called Scorpions and left.

Music has always fascinated me.
Especially since I met the
Rock'n'roll.

Elvis Presley, Little Richard.

Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly and all
others.

My brother told me:

I know a singer who has a voice
incredible.

I have to find a way to try with him.
Convince you to play with you.

Rudolf wanted me to play with Klaus.

The singers had to bring their own
microphone. They only had guitars.

So the dilemma was whether to buy a
moped,

a motorcycle or something like that

or the equipment to sing,

And the answer was simple. I needed
of the equipment.

And since it was not cheap,

I asked my mother to help me with
The expenses, and said: "Okay".

"I'll give you a loan."

Dad instead was skeptical.

For some, music was just a hobby and
He thought:

"Ok, it's great to make music, but it's a
pastime. It is not so important in the
life."

.

Beatles and Rolling Stones were one
Great inspiration for me.

Four or five friends who make music
And they play all over the world.

That was complete freedom.

Since I met Rudolf

I felt a blood bond.

He was the brother I never had. A
half -brother.

He had the same desires and the
same dreams. And he wanted them as much as me.

Since then we have been allied for a single purpose.

The two of us are old now,

Indeed it is so.

But we don't hear it, because in ours
mind the world is always the same.

We had a date through the office
Hannover placement.

The type he called me was called
Adler. "Mr. Schenker, I have a job
For her "

I asked "Where?" "At the Tennis Club in
Goslar. "

I played ping pong, but I didn't have
idea of the "high class" of the tennis club,
So I said "ok".

We had already left with hunger and there
We stopped in Wienerwald.

We dreamed of a nice fried chicken each.

A boy came and said to us: "Not
I can give you anything. "

And he sent us away.

Imagine the situation in a tennis club.

We started mounting
The amplification and guests began to arrive.

In evening dress,

Stitted pants and white ties. Ho
Designed: "shit. But where the fuck are we?"

We started playing Lonesome Crow.
With high volume. We always have
played at most.

And people interrupt us: "You don't know
playing something known? "

A few popular songs. Like Oh Pepito,
Like to me tonight.

We look at each other. What do you do? We collect on
Everything and let's go away,

or, since we needed
money and we were now there,

Do we play these shit songs? The
We fired them mercilessly
And without knowing a note.

I don't know what came out of that
concert. But the audience sang with us.

Do you know how it went? All the people who
They were there in the end they congratulated us.

In the early seventies we played
In various festivals in Hanover.

All bands played to win and
obtain a record contract.

They won the competition here,

But they were disqualified because
They played with too high volumes.

They called us after a month.

"Guys, the band he won is
dissolved, it went to pieces,

So you arrived first.

And you got the legendary
record contract.

I will never forget

When I took that disc in hand,

with the Brain Records logo.

It was like having sex the first
time.

We grew up at a time when the
Rock music was evolving.

And we realized that we could
Create something new.

With the bases of the old Rel Rock pillars,

Something was being born completely
New and we were part of it.

We felt in a new era. There was the
Cuban crisis, Kennedy, all
movements of the 60s,

when we started playing.

It was a way to escape the bad one
sensation. We grew up with pop
German.

But we wanted to feel international.
That's why we sang in English.

But also to make sure that yes
he would come true the dream we had,

to play in the United States.

We will play around the world one day ...

We soon realized how much
We were penalized. Especially on
German market.

So we said: "At this point,
Let's try abroad ".

"Sao Watt by Crap" Bangkok, right?

Yes, it means hello.

-SaBai Dee May. -SaBai Dee May means
How are you?
-Satto, Sabai Dee May!

We were one of the first bands a
playing in countries where he still didn't
played no one.

Asia was a new continent for the
rock. It was an incredible adventure.

It was like going to the moon for the
standard of the time.

-Scenker.
-Scenker.

-But okay.
-Oh yes.

The bass does not come out very well.

When you sound hard it seems too distorted.

Then let's fix it.

We have become a family, then
To think that it is the last tour makes me feel sad,

because it is like a family that divorces
Or that falls apart.

It is a frightening feeling. It is not
pleasant

I am desperate because I can't
Learn German.

I tried at 15 years of age. I had cd.
But I didn't make it.

But you understand much more than you
think.

Sometimes I think they are talking badly
of me,

But I always hope that in reality they are talking about something else ...

Pawlito ... come on not to do this.

Let's hope so...

Let's see how it goes.

We haven't played for a long time. We are on pause from
Two months. No, maybe from three maybe ..

Let's see what happens today.

To the Scorpions had imposed one
condition in the recordings of the first
period,

They could not play in the countries where not
Their records were published.

That's why they managed to play alone
very late in London,

they had to wait for their record
It was also published in England.

The first in UK was a great show,
at the Liverpool Cavern Club.

Our tourbus was late.

When we arrived we thought:
"Fuck, it's the end." The doors were closed.

We didn't know there was a difference
time zone.

-We arrive much earlier -we knew it.

Nobody knew it. And the second thing was

that the club would open at midnight.

So we weren't late, but it was
too early.

But then somehow they opened and
It was very late.

There was a terrible smell in there.

They were so drunk that they did
start the music before the end.

Not because he didn't like it, but why
They were too drunk.

Without Conny Plank and Dieter Dierks, the
Scorpions would not have become that
which are.

Dieter Dierks was an expert in techniques
Hard Rock.

I remember very long recordings.
Text corrections, elimination of
Other texts.

changes of topic, writing new ones
Texts, bursts of anger, shortening
of the text

before finding a definitive story
that everyone liked.

He had a great feeling for drafting
of texts and also to find solutions
innovative.

He said: "We must analyze the texts".

So it's trivial.

So you receive the pressure. This is
the difference between a success and one
crap.

There have been very complicated moments.
The first thing that comes to mind is,

When I slept on a bed
Double with Rudolf in a so -called "pension".

And we have not closed eye from tiredness.

Our long car trips there
They helped a lot.

We often made the decisions there, everyone
Together.

With those discussions they were
Solved many mistakes and problems.

The thoughts and ideas that came to us
They later became reality.

Rudolf is mainly an engineer.

He is a visionary. This definition the
will like it ...

I'm the crazy one. Klaus is ideally
A man who loves relationships.

Matthias is a Scorpio.

It is honest, but sometimes it can hurt.

It was the only way to be able to break through.
Create an indissoluble energy between
of us.

They have always had great guitarists.
Be it Michael Schenker or
Ulrich Roth.

Rudolf was also an individualist who
it did not adapt.

And Matthias, who was still a boy,

he had his own ideas and followed
Rudolf in every decision.

I played an average of five hours a day.

On the weekend even eight hours.

When Roth left we planned
A hearing in London with 130 guitarists ..

We suffered for three days.

And then at some point Rudolf said: "There is
Matthias who is from Hanover ".

He was one of our neighborhood.

Led us to restore the
foundations from the base, we felt as if
It was a new beginning.

The first two official concerts with the
Scorpions did them in the summer of 1978.

I played in a couple of concerts and me
they recalled in 1979.

And then they told me they wanted
try again with Micheal, Rudolf's brother
which was best known.

After some dates of the tour I understood

that I was doing the most wrong thing
For me.

One morning Michael calls me and tells me:

"I'm not playing tonight. I'm in Cologne.
Do you want to play in my place?

I said "solve your problem from
Alone".

And I went on vacation in Spiekeroog.

The Scorpions arrived in Spiekeroog
by helicopter and told him:

"We want you in the band. And there is none
We will go until you say yes. "

The attitude ...

It is certainly part of the sound.

And what is the attitude of sound? It is one
Very abstract thing.

-You can be a little more aggressive in
This part?
-Still?. -Yes, try it.

I always try to bring out the best
from Matthias,

I know he manages to do it, he only owes
Find the right inspiration.

14 months at the latest Farewell concert
Tour.

I was making a video from mine
prospect. During the solo in Beirut.

I filmed about five minutes of the
Show from the battery.

Then I spent the video camera but the
has fallen on you ...

The scorpio room.

It's the first time. Yes. Welcome to Lebanon.

Welcome to Lebanon.

Here we are in Lebanon.

This is fantastic. The old man
Phoenicia Hotel.

Here we shot the video of When you
Came into my life.

It has been completely bombed.

It was all destroyed here.

And now we are staying in the best hotel in the
Middle East. Simply fantastic.

The walls were full of holes. It was a
very disturbing place.

And after 15 years here we are here. All
rebuilt.

We are in a temporal tunnel. In the
time machine.

The media describe it as a place
very dangerous. But there are people
Quiet and friendly everywhere.

It is not the reality they write.

The Scorpio Camera is in action.

Today we take a ride in Byblos.

Beirot-BYBLOS. An hour.

We will climb on stage at seven to
nine tonight.

Do you see? It is great. A great cool.

Adrenaline is so strong that you feel
as drugged,

Because you would still like it and again.

From one day to the next, you find yourself in
another continent.

Mentally everything is very fast.

I think we have not reached ours
Apice but we are evolving.

I have always considered the writer a
composer. That was my dream.

I never wanted to be the guitarist
faster or the best guitarist of
world.

I would like to be an excellent composer.
And maybe one day I will be.

I wrote with Michael all the songs of
Lonesome Crow.

When my brother went away, we are there
asked how we would have been able to
go on.

In the 70s and 80s,

It was Rudolf who made up the riffs of
songs and usually already had an idea
of the song.

So he played it by singing the
vocal melody, without text, of course.

I have to admit that they were excellent songs.

You have to know you very well.

You have to trust the other when he tells you
Which is time to stop and reflect.

It is usually serious. But this
It was never the case.

-I have always understood his setting.
-Rudolf has always been very creative.

He always thinks about it twice. Meditate a lot.
It is very systematic.

I sit down and suddenly the
brain and "boom".

Ideas come out. You just have to do
be careful to grab them all.

But if someone enters at that moment,
I lose the thread.

Every now and then, while I make up, I am looking for
also sing a melody

And the words come to mind in
English. "I would like to go on vacation". Klaus
Listen and make me:

"What are you singing? Great.
You probably really need a holiday. "

This is how Holiday came out.

How to work with talent

And get the best result?

An additional talent will take place.

I always have the certainty,

that sooner or later everything will work.

The name Rudolf comes from stone. There
stone is a metaphor for an idea.

He throws the stone into the water.

And Rudolf waits for the waves to form,

Until something big does not emerge
from the water.

The instinct always follows.

It is only positive energy.

I am not a person who entrusts his
choices to esoteric nonsense.

I experienced it myself.

I often did part of the process
Creative and several times I thought: "It won't work.

What they are doing does not make sense,
But let's let them try. "

At one point I understood that the piece
He was starting to evolve and
suddenly he left out.

The time always comes to take on the fly.

When you have a goal, you have to chase it
And suddenly you find it in front of you.

From an early age, we have always heard
Define the Russians as evil people.

I was very frightened on the plane. "What
Will it happen when we land there? "

In a period in which almost none
He wanted to go to Russia,

I felt a great need to try.

There was an air that oppressed you. A
Innatural grayness, and you feel threatened.

That was Russia before the
Perestrojka.

It was the old Soviet system.

The customsers were very aggressive.

And it wasn't at all simple
cross the border.

"You want to sing the next song with
us?"

"Sing with us Leningrado with us?"

The show cost us 500 thousand brands.

"We had some expenses ...". The
our financial boss said to me: "You are
crazy? "

And also other members of the band
They thought the same thing. "We will never be able to
recover all that money. "

There is not even a record company.
I said: "I don't care."

There were two Soviet military companies,

in spasmodic waiting for it to happen
something.

As if those concerts could create
the spark to start one
revolution.

They advised us to play on a
naked stage, only with tools and speakers,

But we didn't want this. It had to be
something explosive.

So people could realize
What is rock music.

It is always very nice to play here.

Tonight I realized how I am
change things here quickly here,

The last time we came,

Almost ten years ago, there were many
elderly people among the public

The ambulances were out in the event that
Someone could have a heart attack.

Today I saw girls with miniskirts
Sitting on the boys' shoulders.

I also saw children. There was an entire
New generation.

And I think there was a big one
change.

You talked about the changes that took place in
Russia when the "Wind of
Change ".

But you still see those changes
Now. And even if there will not be another tour,

However, this was a success.

I'm not just a Scorpions fan.
I am a fan of rock'n'roll.

We organized a tour he has
touched 21 cities

throughout Russia in 2002, which has become
famous as a living tour.

It was the first time that a band
Western made a tour in Russia.

We brought them to different places e
we wanted to visit

what is called "the soul of the
Russia".

We went to Lake Baikal with a
fifteen cars.

-Wow, 1500 meters.
-We arrive

"I have to swim in the Baikal lake." "Six
just sure?. "

Yes, I have a swim.

Rock'n'roll is not just music, it is not
Only a lifestyle, it is pure emotion.

Health to me and my family and one
Long and happy life.

When there is something cool it is always
"Rock'n'roll".

And that is always the right energy. "Yes
, Rock'n'roll, and it all stripped. "

Rudolf put his cap and went to do
A swim in the Bajkal, outside there were 4
Degrees.

I didn't want to do it, but he dragged me into
waterfall.

Yes, from the thrown inside.

-Rudolf, and if you get busy? I arrive!

Here I am out!

-ODDIO what a cold.
-You here.

-The terrible cold. You had to come.
-I was beautiful, huh?

It was something that impressed
Much Russian fans.

I don't want to think about it,

But in theory this was the last
Concert in Moscow.

Tonight, for the first time, I feel
As if it were the beginning of the end.

But it's a positive thing. It is a good reason
To celebrate.

"Too bad, maybe we won't play anymore
In Moscow "there were beautiful moments here.

It's fantastic to be in Moscow again!

We returned a year and a half after the
festival.

And there were already the vans of the pizza
American around the streets.

We said: "And these who do us
here?".

There was a new air and it seemed
Everything lighter.

I want you to even scream the strongest
possible!

One hundred thousand Russians who sang with one
German band

Songs with texts in English. Was
Fantastic.

They weren't sure they wanted to do
go out that song.

They did it only to make the
singer.

Wind of Change remained in the first place
in Germany for almost 3 months.

When the wall fell, the song became
A sort of hymn.

I said to Klaus: "I got an idea"

If we did the Russian version? As
they could understand it.

They sing with us, but they don't know much
English.

At the beginning, Klaus was not really enthusiastic.

They waved the German flag in
The whole world in a positive sense.

I come from the eastern block. The
Scorpions have helped us

With their music to understand the change.

What could be better?

Moscow announced the exit of a version
Russian

And Gorbachov wanted to invite us to the Kremlin.

A man of the manner of Gorbachov who
He invited the Scorpions to Moscow

It was an unimaginable milestone for one
German band.

We were all very agitated.

At five in the morning I was awake in
panic at the thought that,

If I had to make a short speech
What could I have said?

He felt a bit like James Bond.

In any case, it was not clear if it
We would have really met.

Because from a political point of view they were
Hard times for Gorbachov.

There were television crews from all over the world.

We arrived and the whole room was empty.

But it filled itself within 30 seconds.

We were alone with an interpreter.
He was with his wife.

Since then I became a friend of Klaus and the
his group. We worked together.

They were ... it was a time when the rock
had already been accepted.

A little tight teeth and a little with the
comprehension.

And on my recommendation, they were able to
visit me.

After a few days the Soviet flag
It was launched down by the Kremlin.

We were guests 10 days before the end
of the Soviet Union.

It happens very rarely to approach
so much to history.

It still wanted time to have
Success in Germany.

The most avid fans have a little bit
frightened.

A good part stopped following us.

The 90s could not be easy
For us. It was clear.

We could be swept away immediately.

The music we were doing was
suddenly become obsolete.

It was like a light switch.

He had always worked,

And suddenly he went out for no reason.

It's truly incredible,

how everything has changed so quickly.

You are still dressed as a Scorpions, and sounds
always the flying v ...

Come from another world. What are you
doing here?

We went on TV and we entered
ranking with to be number one.

I tried to make a change to ours
sound with the remix of Mousse T.,

And our longtime fans remained
bordered.

Michael in an interview said "mine
brother makes disco music ".

Fortunately, we received
An offer from the Berlin Philharmonic.

It was a great challenge for us. There
Are we asked: "Are we able to do it?"

The reason for the
which they asked us to collaborate with them.

I never liked classical music.

I felt I couldn't
even if I understood that maybe I was
losing something.

It was something I had to get inside,
And I did it by working with them.

Since then, classical music has
Meaning something for me.

We are in the heart of Germany. There
perfection.

The technique. The almost total absence of
humor.

Live to work.

Sometimes it is difficult to understand

we have fans who love us in
many parts of the world

And that we really feel that love.

But it has never been like this in our country.

When we arrive in Berlin ... the
concert is tomorrow.

A day of rehearsal, an audio test e
Enough. There is not much time.

We have two new songs and new
arrangements,

Written by Christian Kolonovits in Vienna.

We heard them for the first time
to the tests.

-Wrong.
-What do you say "Bum Bum"?

-We have to keep us on the agreement.
-Yes.

-The arrangement follows our way of
play.
-The time is faster.

-Bum, Bum. It's simple.
-S it an extra?

Tell us how it should be. We don't need
other.

-You look once and do it.
-Do we have not heard it.

In case of doubt, Scott let me know
When there must be the "boom boom".

Yes, but you have to tell him.

We never quarreled.

What sense would it make? Why discuss how
idiots?

It is better to be in different rooms e
Keep us away because together we make a great mess.

There are conflicts and things you are not with
agree.

But also thanks to this, it is balanced and
works.

Now there is a rather animated discussion.

He is Peter, my technician of
guitars. Since 1990.

-1990? 1890?
-18 ...

He knows how to do anything. He made
Disk covers.

The guitar sounds better than me.

-Consful like this.
-Thank you.

It is a total transformation when you play
once a year in a concert like
This.

.

An incredible contrast.

There they were sitting in evening dresses and
smoking.

I was surprised that then they are
get up and dance.

Then the next day you flight away from there
And sound here ...

in front of 75,000 people who want
listen only to metal.

I didn't understand the emphasis. I didn't know that
they came from Germany.

I fond of Germany
Thanks to the Scorpions.

For a long time I associated Germany
to the Scorpions.

And last year I was in Wacken and I have
I met this guy.

How are you? Too bad we are not there
seen in Toronto.

Without you, we would not have done that
What do we do.

I think that ears too
used to sharp guitars,

Often it is good to listen to a song with
A catchy melody.

Yes, they retire. Of course, yes
They withdraw.

People have extraordinary energy here.

And if you can't answer
That energy, you are fucking.

If you get on stage and you don't feel too much
involved,

Or you feel too tired, you're out of the game.

There is a strong energy. It is magical.

There is a band like the motorhead it has
Built a career on a song.

Ace of Spades. It's fantastic, but the
Scorpions have many other songs.

In addition, they have fantastic ballads.
This is their secret weapon.

Because after a good dose of hard rock
A certain point comes the ballad.

The Scorpions are the champions of the love
Ballads.

This is a real gem. The ancient
Neumann microphone.

It is reserved for Klaus. Can bear
high sound pressure.

Klaus' voice is very powerful. The
We use Lovedrive's disc.

Klaus is a singer. It is not part
typical rock voices.

It has a beautiful ringing tenor.

You can sing it in different ways.

Let's try again.

For me it is a piece of paper with the "or" above.

Klaus sang him a hundred times, perhaps
more, to make it enter it.

When it comes to phrasing, Dieter is
Much further. He heard it
perfectly.

I tried to understand why not too
I heard it like that.

I probably exaggerated that evening
Because Klaus jumped out

And suddenly he was standing next to me.

He approached shouting: "I hate you!
I'll kill! You never satisfy you! "

He gave me many tips. He told me:
"Klaus, you have a great voice, sing well,

But I would like to take advantage of it to the fullest. "

The next day he came to the studio and the
I said: "We don't talk about it, Klaus.

Enter and sing. "Klaus sang
And we took this version.

"Do you want to listen to the old version?
"" No, you can trash her. "

In the end, he has to put everything together.

The composition and the text must
adapt to each other, and enter how
in a glove.

I have always said that my way of
Write texts ...

It is a search to express what it says
Rudolf with the guitar.

Gabi doesn't want to talk about it, but many
Years ago I wrote some texts for her.

Always Somewhere and No One Like You are
Songs written for Gabi.

Still Loving You is a sad song
on separation.

But we have always been together.

When I met it we were gods
desperate.

I didn't even have a car.

We had nothing really.

I played with a band on the weekends.

They were simply soul mate that a
times they are lucky enough to meet,

go on with feeling, without having to
do anything else.

Is one of the very few weddings they have
had the good fortune to last in
Rock'n'roll.

I think we are all the same in the end, and the
Scorpions know very well

that under that perfect jacket of
Macho skin beats a heart.

He is a specialist in writing
ballads,

Because he writes them with the heart.

Some have even claimed that in
France there was a huge growth of
population

Thanks to this song, which is the most
great love song of all time
For the French.

Still Loving You is still the most single
sold in France.

No other national album or
International has sold so much in France
How much Still Loving You.

There is always a moment, when you are
Around the umpteenth tour,

that you stop to think about how much it is
Difficult to always stay in condition
of optimal form.

Nobody should notice, but to a certain
point feel that slowly bends you.

When you come home try to hear you
again with his feet in the newspaper.

Try to organize things and do
facing everything.

It is completely different from the life of
a normal person.

You can never relax. You can do it
Only at home.

And I think it's important to have a
place where you can feel yourself.

Gabi is right when he says:

"We could do something cute now.
Different things. "But you feel unloaded

because all the energy you left it in
Tour. It is something that always repeats itself
And it makes us reflect.

When they ask us where to play in Paris,
We always choose Bercy.

But usually the promoters refuse by saying:

"Let's do two nights at Olympia." Why
It is much smaller.

Then we obey, but our dream is
to return to play in that
fantastic room

and be able to do sold out.

When you play in Bercy, it's a big one
Message for the rock community.

This shows that you are on the front line e
that you belong to the old generation.

This concert in Bercy, for us, is a
dream become reality.

Today was a bad day.
We had to delete the show

Due to Klaus's health problems.

When the instrument are the vocal cords,
And your voice leaves, it's hell.

There is always a great pressure on the
singer. And if something like this happens,
You can't do anything about it.

Since I follow the Scorpions, almost
21 years old,

I remember only two shows that
They had to be deleted.

This will be the third concert canceled
After years. Unfortunately it can happen.

It's not a problem, but I'm sorry that
Klaus must face all this.

I go around because I want to exploit a
A little free time. I don't like being
At the hotel.

In theory we should have a date to Tours.

-What is there?
-Where do you come from?

The whole day revolves around the
Question: "Will we play tonight?"

And then the dilemma. "And now what do I do?"

I like to go out, go to dinner, I'm
happy in Paris,

But I much prefer to play.
I depended on me, I would play every evening.

Already in Montpellier we had to stop.

Made an injection and we took
A fifteen -minute break.

It was the first time that it happened to us.

I can imagine that the 20 thousand that there
wait

Tomorrow in Paris, not everyone will be Parisian.

Which means they will start in the morning
Soon. We have to put this announcement online.

Fortunately now everything is faster.

Everyone is looking forward to. "Four days
at the Scorpions concert, three more
days. "And then ...

It is the déjà vu that I would like to avoid.

We have an acoustic song for you. Yes
Call Holiday!

1984. An unforgettable concert in
France. Bercy. Sold out. 19500 people.

It was the first time they made a
Great rock show in Bercy.

The country had emptied, they were all there.

It was as if an entire small town
had come to see a band.

We inaugurated that room. We are
States the first band to officially play us.

Klaus Meine stopped singing in the handsome
half of the concert because it was in trouble.

When something happens happens
During a concert,

It's the worst thing you can imagine.

What should you do? You are there above. There
room is packed with people ...

You are on stage in the spotlight.
The only thing to do is to play.

People understood that they had a problem e
Suddenly he started singing.

The entire crowd started singing at
his place.

It is as if they said, "we sing.
Okay the same. "

We practically play the guitar with
the public.

It was truly exciting.

Hi Rudolf. Dry question. How is Klaus?

The doctor diagnosed
an inflammation to the vocal cords.

My voice jumping in a way
uncontrollable.

And there was no chance to sing
normally.

But after the second control, I was
convinced that he can sing tonight.

It is obvious that the doctor recommended by
promoter

is intent on making you play.

I leave the decision to you. Depends on
how do you feel.

I knew the doctor would say:
"Tomorrow you will be fine."

This is excellent news for mine
vocal cords.

But I must also be physically fit.

It is clear. Memories come out.

We didn't want to record again in
Dierks study in Stommeln.

It is the last city before the border.
We wanted to make a record elsewhere.

Klaus' voice was depressing.

It seemed different. It was no longer the same.
Klaus did not believe it.

I said to him: "I'm sorry, but it hurts
hear your voice ".

He was getting worse. And then Klaus told us:

"Guys, I don't feel like before."

We sent it from a specialist to
Vienna who found an adenoma at him at
vocal cords.

He asked Klaus: "What are you doing to live?
"" I'm a singer. "" Then you will find a
Another job. "

One day I said to Rudolf: "Friend not
I will be able to climb this mountain. "

As a singer I came to the point of the non
return.

It was the worst thing I could imagine.

At that moment, I felt alone.

At the center of the band, with 20,000 fans
in front of me.

But I was completely alone. As if I were
Inside a tunnel,

In search of the way out because you know
that you can't go on like this.

The instinct said to me: "No, no, no".

We will wait. You take your course. There there
You can do.

-Klaus, do you feel better?
-I will never forget how it has it
asked.

He did everything he could.
Worked with special equipment,

who massaged electromagnetically
The vocal cords.

He was forbidden to speak and replied
To the questions by writing.

Ready? Yes.

15.15 Let's start, ok.

Great. Yes, I'll be there. Later.

I don't feel sure. I will not be fine, until
Let's not play the first song.

There is always tension that immediately disappears,

As soon as you get on stage.

You feel in the right place and you know that
You will give the best.

It is the place to which I belong.

That feeling is omnipresent every
evening you are there.

Let it happen and you will be yourself.

Nothing more, nothing less.

We singers we must be primedonne.

Two -hour heating. Shower. Not
speak. Talking is death for the singer.

When you sing and feel the flavor of the blood in the throat

It is frightening because your life is over.
Your career is in pieces.

Working to live is part from the middle class,

where most people
They do jobs that actually hate.

They want the pension. But in art?
You would never want to end up.

But a farewell tour makes sense.

Because you want it, you feel more
free. So you are satisfied with it.

It is officially over. You have freedom
to do what you want.

Obviously you can continue to do it, but
You are much freer.

There are three months left at the last concert of the
farewell

I remember correctly to have gone to EMI
With Klaus and Rudolf

saying: "We will break in America". And their
they made fun of us.

"They are already waiting for you. They are not there
Band there ".

Indeed, nobody was waiting for
A German rock band.

Many people thought they were
crazy megalomaniacs.

I felt like many to say: "Stop
dream! Don't be silly. "

Nobody wanted them. I flew to
America three times and have always told me:

"Dieter, you want to sell coca cola in
America?"

I looked for the first records of
Scorpions for two and a half years,

Nobody sold them, until
I didn't find Lonesome Crow

But that disc was a pirate copy and not
I could find the original.

One day my secretary came, he told me

that there was a man who wanted to talk to me
of the Scorpions.

I was hard to believe it. That man was
Dieter Dierks.

I was proud. I thought it was
Fantastic. I told them we had a
contract in the USA.

We came to America for the first
Time in 1979.

I remember the name of the driver. Yes
He called Lamar of Hanover.

Hanover in Alabama.

Steve Leber and David Krebs were real
guru that nothing was missing.

I was very lucky to
accompany the Scorpions in this adventure
from the beginning.

How is it going? You are preparing for the
Tonight concert?

Scorpions! To the Reunion Arena!

See you tonight. We are here! Prepared
to rock, America!

We had a new start in America
And this united us.

He helped the growth of the
band.

They were however aware of being
Germans. In America.

At that time, they started to see
The first economic results.

The bands had started to move with
Their Tourbus.

Many bands have been penalized.
For the Scorpions it was not the case at all.

You have to persevere if you want success in America.

Once you think you have broken through in
America is over.

We never thought it. We knew of
having to work even more.

There was chemistry in the band. It was strength
driving force.

But the real driving force has always been Rudolf.

He has always pushed us to the maximum.

He never gave up and I have never seen him
discouraged.

In the 70s in Hanover there were many
good musicians.

Most of them are
burned too early.

They were exceptional thanks to their talent
musical.

But all those bands inflated by theirs
Ego at the end exploded.

They discussed passionately of music every day.

To find a way to improve the
next day.

They continued to improve day
after day,

until all the gears of the
car did not perfectly oil.

Until all the components are
perfectly adapted.

And this, in my opinion, belongs to the
German nature.

You can't go anywhere if you are not
convinced that he does it. And to be successful in America,

which I had always wanted, you have to
be ready to work to the maximum.

It is important to enjoy every moment.

Even if we traveled on a bus
terrible, we had fun.

After the show we go to bed and
We sleep. Why?

-we need a healthy night of
sleep.
-San girls are there?

There are no girls. We don't like the
Sex and not even alcohol and drugs.

Let's go to bed and fall asleep immediately.

Some members of the band were worse than
others.

I will not name them,

But the recurring show was the
see girls in the hotels

turn at five in the morning with the
coffee in hand.

Let's go back after advertising. Stay with
us.

Guidi on the highway, turn on the radio e
There are LED Zeppelin, it's all.

-The sun is rising.
-We above Los Angeles,

a city that gave the turn to the
our American career.

I made up and down this highway
every day to go to Keith Olsen,

When he produced the Album Crazy World.

It's fun to tourbus,

Around America like many years ago.

It is a bit like reliving those moments.

Rethinking in Paris. We took the
right decision?

Yes and no. Because I collapsed at home
completely and I took the pneumonia.

Then you ask yourself: "Friend, you are not
risking a little too much?

How long do you want to last? "

American radio has always supported us.

American rock stations are fantastic.

Over the years I think we have turned them
all.

During the first tour, we started
to note musicians and bands

which attracted themselves in a light -hearted way e
fun.

We said: "Guys, we can do it
We too ".

So we changed our way of
stay on the stage.

We had fun jumping. It was during
That tour that was born the "knot".

And then I was vertically during
Matthias' solo.

Things we never thought of doing
in Europe.

When I saw for the first time the
Scorpions on stage, I immediately thought

Because these guys jump over the
their heads?

They were a mixture of a great rock band
And crazy acrobat.

We immediately became the Headliner band.

In 1984 we had a great one
Success with Love at First Sting.

We stayed in the standings for over a year
With two discs.

and suddenly we splashed at the top
of popularity.

And during those five years everything went
Very quickly.

Looking at the photos of those Germans
leather dresses

I tell myself: I'm a Jewish boy. I am
scared.

May 29, 1983 US Festival.

The turning point of career.

Everyone talked about us.

325 thousand people. Heads as far as you can
see.

It's all very quiet.

Don't beat anyone.

If there is a problem, it is solved. Not
We want brawls or things like that.

We have enough people here. We can
manage any situation.

When they opened the gates it was
How to see a herd escape.

They had no idea how many people could
arrive.

And the number of people continued a
grow. There were people everywhere.

-Hum are dying of heat and are
blocked.
-But it is worth it, isn't it?

Yes, it's worth it. Rock'n'roll will never die.

-The guitars will be very high.
-Why? We don't play with these volumes.

-The levels are. -Ron said:
"They have to pass over my corpse.

It doesn't exist! If there is a whistle, I take you
kicking in the ass.

During the show, the planes created
The writing Scorpions in the sky.

It was a wonderful idea, five
jet above all those people.

Look, our planes are flying.

Only our manager knew it. Ha
recruited army pilots with a
special permit.

It was all well programmed. We have
Wait behind the scenes.

They knew they had to go to seven
in point.
-Ok, we have to wait a minute.

A Van Halen manager discovered it
And they tried to stop the radio signal.

Our Tour Manager presented us
just at the moment of their passage,

he almost burned, because there was a
scheduled fire. You can see in the video.
It was fantastic.

From West Germany! Scorpions!

Then our manager David arrived
Krebs and said:

"Hey guys, no one like you is the
Most listened song on American radio. "

A truly incredible news.

Klaus didn't want to sing it. He said that
live was not up to par.

But I insisted on doing it.

You want to drink something with the Scorpions
After the concert?

Oh mama! Hate!

Today people filming everything with mobile phones

And he placed it on Facebook. Then not
There was nothing.

There was no reason to be careful that
Someone recognized you.

We were in Texas.

I went to find Matthias in the dressing rooms.

And started talking to me about the future, in
That moment was strange.

We noticed that psychologically
Something was happening.

There was a recurring question: "What do we think
to do now? "

I think we can continue for the
next year. We are all fit.

It is not as we said at the beginning:

"We don't want to get old on stage."

Or consciously show the public

that we are on stage with crutches.
We are still in excellent shape.

We are still well.

I once read a song of philosophy.

The man stopped to the side of the road and
He said, "I don't want to go further."

And someone asked him: "Why not?" Him
He replied: "My soul does not follow me".

I need some time to make myself
follow from my soul.

We cannot oblige our souls a
follow us for a long time,

because ours, for years they have been following us in
every part of the world.

-Doro the Scorpions!
-What do you like more than them?

They are big. I've been together for a long time
And I'm an institution.

I could not miss this concert a
New York.

Yes, I love the Scorpions.

In 1984, after about two and a half months in
Tour, there was the sold out

to the Madison Square Garden who was the
highlight. The top ever.

I am the best band in America, although
come from Germany.

In the mid -1980s, Matthias and I
We invited our parents

and Gabi's mother in New York for the
Concert at the Madison Square Garden.

The happiest moment was in 1984

When I invited my parents to New
York for a week.

My mother had never taken a plane
In his life.

We had a week in New York with
Three concerts at Madison Square Garden.

It was unforgettable.

We were at the apex. We felt like
If we had reached the maximum of the
career.

We wanted our parents there to be there.

Adrenaline already from the morning. Will go
Better after the first coffee.

The best thing was what said mine
Mother at the end of the week.

"How long would you like to do it? Not
Do you want to find a good job? "

It was an unforgettable joke, but in
positive sense.

Nothing can match satisfaction and
the fulfillment that derive from the
creativity.

Sometimes it is more a technical question, but
Other times it can be an inspiration.

As in the case of Send Me An Angel, where
I still don't know how the text came out.

Those things happen and that's it. You feel them
flow inside.

They come out spontaneously. Then
It is necessary to make them work with a nice riff of
guitar.

A beautiful melody that struck me
spiritually.

The essay said: "Go this side
Until dawn ".

Where does it come from? You can't know. You have to
Just follow the inspiration,

And the song will be given to you.

During the tour, I receive the news
of my mother's death.

I immediately thought: "What should I do now?"

I still had five other concerts

And I knew I couldn't even be able
go to the funeral.

But I think staying on tour was
however a good decision.

If I could go back maybe
I would ask to delete a date ...

But I don't know if they would have allowed me.

In any case, I decided to play for
My mother.

Klaus also recently lost his mother.

We dedicated a song to my mother.

And Klaus also dedicated Send Me An
Angel to his mother.

When it happened, I was in Ukraine.

When you are on tour you have to go on and
try to cope with what he is
happening,

But with all that sadness, it is almost
impossible.

It is extremely difficult. You are like
hit by lightning.

The public has no idea of
moment that crosses and what feelings
Try.

From under the stage I saw the banner:
"We are with you, Klaus."

My God. I had tears in my eyes.

I put the Ukrainian flag on the face
to dry the tears that descended.

On the one hand, it is nice that many people
try so much compassion,

But on the other it is extremely difficult to continue.

Our lives are on tour while a
Other things happen. And we don't
We are part.

You have to perform. The show must
continue. And all around ...

This is the price you pay to do
part of a world -renowned rock band.

24 hours at the latest Farewell concert
Tour.

Tomorrow will go better than you expect
After such a long tour.

They are definitely preparing a great
concert.

You feel like a marathon runner,

that turns behind the last corner and sees the
finish line.

Especially in the last year, we all have

had the impression of falling into a pit

dark and deep, saying to ourselves:
"It's over."

And now it seems that it is really over.

When it comes to mind, I try to
face it,

but then I take it off my head again

I don't want to think about tomorrow.

I want to enjoy the present and tomorrow is a
more day.

I read both my interviews, and
those of Rudolf and Matthias.

Our answers to this question
they changed over time.

And at some point they started to
be similar.

We have conflicting feelings. From a
side, it's a sad moment.

Obviously I am convinced that we are not
falling apart

and that we will probably make a live one
tantum in the future,

But this will be the last concert in
This form.

The idea that tomorrow is the last concert
And this is the end ...

It is hard to send down.

We finish today. There will be no preparations
for a next concert.

We will no longer have to think about anything.

The moment we are having fun
a lot and everything is going great,

The idea of not is perverse
Continue to do it.

They did 70 concerts in twenty -four
countries this year.

And most all sold out. Who
Would you like to retire? Nobody.

Agree Signori Scorpions. Out of
stage is not as fun as on
stage. So...

What will we do now? Nobody knows, but
Something will happen.

I'm learning Reiki. Maybe I'll go
to some course.

Reiki?

-I what is you ...?
-Sì, that's what you do so ...

If you know it, you know that a person like
Rudolf Schenker will not sit at home

Waiting for something to happen.

When they are finished, probably
they will stay at home. What will they do?

I started as a gardener and I will finish
as a gardener.

Let's close the book first. We will conclude
the farewell tour.

The last tour will end in Munich. AND
A perfect place.

So we will make a deep breath and see,

what challenges our musical life has
prepared for us.

As long as the voice lasts, which is one
crucial question,

Klaus will continue to sing. On this
I have no doubt.

At the beginning of 2013, we received
An offer to play at the MTV unplugged.

Very exciting idea. We said to each other,
"Mtv Unplugged?" Ok, let's try. "

When you live in a dream, everything else is a nightmare.

We should apologize for getting around
in the end? Obviously not!

We are all sure that this will be one
enormous challenge.

"Here we are, we're done." Who has
Having said that? Did I say this?

Creativity is the only goal of
life. Everything else makes no sense.

If an artist ended up making art, the
his life would end.

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