The “Scorpions” are on a world tour again. A conversation with the singer Klaus Meine about spiders, the new text of “Wind of Change” and his band, which has survived every crisis.
Interviewed by
Michael Zirnstein
Almost exactly 13 years ago they announced scorpion her farewell to the stage at a press conference in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof. “We’re turning into the home straight,” said Klaus Meine at the time of the last world tour. On this last round, Germany’s most successful rock band (the Vor-Rammstein-era) so much fun that they followed up tour after tour and two albums. The fact that their record company Sony is now releasing twelve of their classic LPs freshly mixed and pressed as colored vinyl indicates a demand that was also acutely boosted by the Eighties boom rather than a siding. Shortly before leaving for the start of another world tour in South America, 74-year-old Meine is again very thirsty for action.