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Even over 70 still full of “Sex and Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Klaus Meine (right) and Rudolf Schenker from the cult band Scorpions.
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In an interview with “Playboy”, the Scorpions revealed why they still stand for “Sex and Rock ‘n’ Roll”.
The German hard rock band Scorpions has been around for almost 60 years. Soon, on February 22nd, their 19th studio album “Rock Believer” will be released. The name says it all: Klaus Meine (73), Rudolf Schenker (73) and Co. revealed in the current March issue of “Playboy” that they also want to stand for “Sex and Rock ‘n’ Roll” beyond the age of 70 . Even if their attention has now clearly shifted to the latter.
Some things have become less complicated, Meine jokes: “We’re no longer at an age where you have to shamefully hide the ‘Playboy’.” The fact that they have remained true to themselves over the decades also has something to do with the music genre itself: “When you write a rock album, you don’t want to write a Rosamunde Pilcher novel, and that’s why the lyrics naturally turn about sex and rock ‘n’ roll.”
The not so wild rocker life
In any case, they don’t think much of the supposed rocker cliché of sleeping with groupies. Of course, there are still “musicians who send their tour managers out with the requirement: ‘I’d like to see the third girl from the right in the first row in my dressing room after the show.'” It’s like everywhere in life “It’s just a question of character,” says Meine. Schenker’s crystal clear opinion on this: “It’s cheap.”
The fact that the Scorpions still exist 57 years after the band was founded seems like a miracle to Meine and Co. At their wild beginnings, none of them believed “that you’d even turn 30. No one could seriously have dreamed that we would conquer America with our music.”