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DEF LEPPARD, KISS, RUSH, SCORPIONS and SOUNDGARDEN are among the artists whose releases are available now at Wal-Mart as a part of Wal-Mart’s “Earth Month” promotion. The insert in more than 20 Universal Music Group (UMG) titles is so earth-friendly that, when properly planted, the special seed paper will actually bloom into wildflowers. All of the albums from Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), the U.S. catalog and special markets entity for UMG, will be offered in the new REPAK CD package, an all paperboard option containing third-party certified, renewable recycled board and recyclable paper. The REPAK’s design features a unique recessed cavity to hold the disc snugly and safely in place, completely eliminating the need for a plastic hub or tray. It is part of the greenchoice Environmental Solutions program from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper. For the previously released compilation albums, the new packaging will replace the jewel box version of each title. Those albums (see list below) will also include the wildflower insert offering three free digital downloads from a select number of UMe catalog tracks. In 2006, UMe launched the first completely paper-recyclable (sleeve and tray) packaging in the music industry. A major new step in providing environmentally-friendly packaging, the initiative continues both companies’ commitment to improving packaging. Since then, more than 10 million nearly carbon neutral packaging have used special eco-friendly materials with UMe reducing the CO2 emissions and carbon footprint by 2400 tons. This lower carbon footprint does not include the reduction of CO2 emission during the transportation due to the lower weight of the special packages (half the weight compared to a jewel case). Said Mike Davis, Executive Vice President & General Manager, UMe: “We have a long-standing commitment to being ‘green’ and we’re proud to continue to lead the music industry in addressing environmental issues.” A partial list of titles included in the Catalog Albums:
DEF LEPPARD – “Vault – Greatest Hits”
JIMI HENDRIX – “Experience Hendrix”
KISS – “The Very Best Of Kiss”
NIRVANA – “Nirvana”
RUSH – “The Spirit Of Radio”
SCORPIONS – “Bad For Good: Best Of Scorpions”
SOUNDGARDEN – “A-Sides”

http://www.ticktackticket.com/entradas/buscar.do?claves=scorpions&categoria=TOT&poblacion=t&dia=04&mesany=042008&diaSelected=3&mesanySelected=0

May 7 – Madrid, Spain venue – Multiusos La Cubierta
May 9 – Alicante, Spain venue – Plaza De Toros
May 10 – Almeria, Spain venue – Palacio Juegos Mediterraneos

September, 7th 2008 -Recife, Brazil venue-Chevrolet Hall

September, 3rd 2008 Belém , Brazil Venue- Cidade Folia

August, 30th 2008 Rio de Janeiro – Brazil (venue -Apoteose)
September, 6th 2008 São Paulo – Brazil (Venue – Credicard Hall)

May, 30th 2008 Greifswald,Germany venue-Volksstadion Order

June 7 – Tampere, Finland ” Sauna Open Air” Scorpions will be headlining Saturday night
http://www.sauna-open-air.fi/ June 6-8 “3 day festival”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6EfVvId0lg&feature=related

Scorpions live on German TV performing their new single “You´re Loving Me To Death” from Humanity Hour 1. Plus a sit down interview with Rudy and Klaus. The Scorpions were voted the 7th most successful German band of all time in their country. This stat is from German CD sales. I know alot of people are thinking what other German band has been more successful around the world then the Scorpions. And the answer is none. They are the most successful World Wide band from Germany.

(thanks angel68 and Paula)

The Scorpions may consider changing the lyrics of their “Wind of Change” single to “wings of planes” because they’ll be spending several hours looking at them as they fly over some barren Russian countryside. The German rockers, who have been touring for four decades, have 12 shows in 17 days and – by promoter Ed Ratnikov’s calculation – will clock up 14,950 “air kilometres” (about 9,200 miles). But the schedule isn’t as punishing as it might first appear, as the Talent Concert International chief has chartered a luxury Tupolev 154, which has ample comfortable cabin space for the band and crew and plenty of room for the backline in the cargo hold. The worst slog is the nine-hour 6,000-kilometre flight from Komsomolsk to Kazan, which takes the band from the Chinese border to the meeting of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in what’s known as central European Russia. It takes more than one-third of the tour’s flying time, although the longer flights are all overnight. The act became massively popular in Russia and some of the other old communist states largely because of the hit “Wind Of Change,” with its references to Moscow’s River Moskva and Gorky Park. The song was viewed as a reflection of the sociopolitical changes marking the end of the Iron Curtain and Cold War. In 2005 the viewers of the German television network ZDF chose “Wind Of Change” as “the song of the last century.” It’s frequently played on television shows presenting video footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall and is widely known in Germany as the song that captures the country’s reunification and fall of communism, even though it only rose to popularity two years later. The Scorpions’ Russian tour begins at St. Petersburg Ice Palace April 10 and finishes at Moscow Kremlin Palace April 26.

(John Gammon /Pollstar)

April, 5th 2008
Mannheim- Germany SAP Arena order
Freiburg-Germany Rothaus Arena order

Scorpions will play 3 songs at each arena on the same day…