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Blackout: Scorpions Reach Tail End of Career (full interview below)

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/music/features/article_1536468.php/Blackout-Scorpions-Reach-Tail-End-of-Career

http://www.amazon.de/Sting-Tail-Scorpions/dp/B0032SK71E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1267096528&sr=8-1

http://www.wlup.com/airstaff/blogs/byrd/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10098983

From the blog of Byrd, DJ at WLUP in Chicago:”The very first interview granted by the Scorpions since they announced their impending retirement, along with a listen to what will be their final studio album “Sting In The Tail” next Tuesday (3/2) at 8:30am on my show. The announcement of a Chicago farewell show will be announced at this time as well. Don’t miss it!

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=135462

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=135076

Sting in the Tail – release date for North America: March 23, 2010
Sting in the Tail – release date for Europe: March 19,2010

Sting In The Tail -​ Re­lease: March 19th 2010

Scorpions MySpace Music Videos

Here’s the track list from the new album:
1. Raised On Rock 3:57
2. Sting In The Tail 3:12
3. Slave Me 2:44
4. The Good Die Young 5:14
5. No Limit 3:24
6. Rock Zone 3:17
7. Lorelei 4:31
8. Turn You On 4:25
9. Let’s Rock 3:21
10. SLY 5:15
11. Spirit Of Rock 3:43
12. The Best Is Yet To Come 4:34
13. Thunder and Lightning (Bonus Track)

http://www.the-scorpions.com/english/discography/records/sitt.asp – lyrics to the new songs

The first single from the album will be “The Good Die Young” – the duet with Tarja Turunen( former singer of Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish).

SCORPIONS will release their final studio album, “Sting In The Tail”, in North America on March 23 via Universal Music Enterprises. The CD was recorded at a studio in Hannover, Germany with Swedish producers Mikael “Nord” Andersson and Martin Hansen (the team behind THE RASMUS’ “Dead Letters” CD).

http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/interviewScorpions.htm

Classic Rock Revisited’s Jake Willoughby caught up with Scorpions Guitarist Rudolf Schenker to discuss the bands’ decision to retire after the next album and tour.
The band announced that they will release a new album in March of 2010and then go on a world tour that will take the Scorpions across five continents.Once the tour is done then the Scorpions will retire. Read on to discoverwhat the band thinks of the upcoming album, why they are retiring andwhat we may be able to expect once the tour is over. Plus learn how Rudolf nearly got arrested and blew up Def Leppard’s television set.

http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/nemo83/post119906609/
https://www.fullmetalrock.com/Scorpions.html
http://www.noisecreep.com/2010/01/27/scorpions-guitarist-discusses-bands-decision-to-retire/
http://www.shoutcastblog.com/2010/01/28/world-reacts-to-scorpions-retirement/
http://www.ticketnews.com/Scorpions-tour-paves-way-to-retirement-with-Sting-and-Blackout-dates11025318
http://www.billboard.com/news/scorpions-forsee-fantastic-future-following-1004063623.story#/news/scorpions-forsee-fantastic-future-following-1004063623.story

SCORPIONS will release their final studio album, “Sting In The Tail”, in North America on March 23 via Universal Music Enterprises. The CD was recorded at a studio in Hannover, Germany with Swedish producers Mikael “Nord” Andersson and Martin Hansen (the team behind THE RASMUS’ “Dead Letters” CD).

After the release of the album and a three-year mammoth tour, which will take the SCORPIONS across five continents, the band will end its career. The group broke the news on its web site on Sunday.

Important Message to our Fans:

It was always our pleasure, our purpose in life, our passion and we were fortunate enough to make music for you – whether it was live on stage or in the studio, creating new songs.
While we were working on our album these past few months, we could literally feel how powerful and creative our work was – and how much fun we were still having, in the process. But there was also something else: We want to end the Scorpion’s extraordinary career on a high note. We are extremely grateful for the fact that we still have the same passion for music we’ve always had since the beginning. This is why, especially now, we agree we have reached the end of the road. We finish our career with an album we consider to be one of the best we have ever recorded and with a tour that will start in our home country Germany and take us to five different continents over the next few years.
We want you, our fans, to be the first to know about this. Thank you for your never-ending support throughout the years!

let’s get the party started and get ready for a “Sting in the Tail”!

Here are two samples from the upcoming “Sting in the Tail” CD

Raised To Rock – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGVfSdcDL4A
The Good Die Young – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJyqBtaSJl0&NR=1

See you on the world tour,

Yours
Scorpions

Columbia, Maryland(Merriweather Post Pavilion) – June 19,2010