Scorpions: Around the World
Jeff Tamarkin, Circus, 30 November 1985
IT TOOK THE Scorpions more than a dozen years to do it, but there now remains no doubt that the Hannover, West Germany-based rockers have gone from being local heroes to conquering the rest of the metal-speaking world.
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