{"id":3267,"date":"2014-09-03T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T18:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2014-09-04T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:25:25","slug":"scorpions-manager-peter-amend-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"Scorpions Longtime Manager Peter Amend Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-xpa1\/v\/t1.0-9\/p180x540\/10659332_10152247266642373_2542766424887561626_n.jpg?oh=3d5ff4f80e7bd785704f8b9eaacae01a&amp;oe=545C41D1&amp;__gda__=1415918894_3f0617399bbee4d48e808eee24d30f60\" alt=\"Photo: On September 1st 2014, our dear friend PETER AMEND passed away.\nPETER AMEND was more than just a manager and economic and legal consultant for us. He was an important part of the Scorpions and was also a driving force in the artistic and strategic decisions of the Band with his infinite knowledge and his sensitivity to the music. \nDue to his advice and influence we achieved great international success in recent years.\nOur thoughts and prayers are with Peters family in these very difficult times.\nPETER, you will always be in our hearts forever and a day.\nR.I.P. Yours Scorpions\nKlaus, Rudolf, Matthias, Pawel and James\n\nAm 1. September 2014 ist unser lieber Freund PETER AMEND von uns gegangen. \nF\u00fcr uns war PETER AMEND mehr als nur Manager und wirtschaftlicher und juristischer Berater. Er war ein wichtiger Teil der Scorpions, der mit seinem unendlichen Wissen und seiner Sensibilit\u00e4t f\u00fcr die Musik auch ein Impulsgeber der k\u00fcnstlerischen und strategischen Entscheidungen unserer Band wurde.\nNicht zuletzt seinem Einfluss und seinem Rat verdanken wir die gro\u00dfen internationalen Erfolge der letzten Jahre. \nUnsere Gedanken sind in diesen schweren Zeiten bei Peters Familie. \nPETER, you will always be in our hearts forever and a day.\nR.I.P. Deine Scorpions\nKlaus, Rudolf, Matthias, Pawel und James\" width=\"373\" height=\"504\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Amend, longtime manager for Scorpions, passed away yesterday. There are few details on his death at this time, but the band did post a statement on its Facebook page in both its native German and in English mourning their late friend.<\/p>\n<p>On September 1st 2014, our dear friend PETER AMEND passed away.<br \/>\nPETER AMEND was more than just a manager and economic and legal consultant for us. He was an important part of the Scorpions and was also a driving force in the artistic and strategic decisions of the Band with his infinite knowledge and his sensitivity to the music.<br \/>\nDue to his advice and influence we achieved great international success in recent years.<br \/>\nPETER you will always be in our hearts forever and a day.<br \/>\nR.I.P. Yours Scorpions<br \/>\nKlaus, Rudolf, Matthias, Pawel, James<\/p>\n<p>Amend became the group\u2019s lawyer, manager and booker in 1991, and has been with the band for the past 23 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Amend, longtime manager for Scorpions, passed away yesterday. There are few details on his death at this time, but the band did post a statement on its Facebook page in both its native German and in English mourning their late friend. On September 1st 2014, our dear friend PETER AMEND passed away. PETER AMEND [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}