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The Scorpions, Germany’s favorite hard rock sons, lost their venom on April 16, 1988 with the release of the disappointing Savage Amusement. Until then, Hannover’s finest had enjoyed a remarkable run of success since the start of the decade, going toe-to-toe with America’s biggest hard rock contenders thanks to hit-filled, platinum-selling albums like 1982’s Blackout and ’84’s Love at First Sting. In the process, they became Germany’s best-selling rock export ever. Not bad for a band formed all the way back in 1965 by the guitar-playing Schenker brothers, Rudolf and Michael (who was soon poached by Brit rockers, UFO), and that, once armed with vocalist Klaus Meine and new guitar wizard, Uli Jon Roth, spent the entire ‘70s painstakingly establishing a solid career in Europe and Japan. But the commercial rise of heavy metal in the ‘80s really blew the doors open for the Scorpions, who subsequently made it a habit of packing arenas and blazing up the charts with heavy rock anthems like “No One Like You,
