Scorpions for example were fairly prominent in the early days of MTV and had several hit songs in that period.  Most people don't know that Scorpions is a German band, having been founded by guitarist Rudolf Schenker in 1965 and still together.  They are among the most innovative hard rock bands of the 1970’s – long before they had any American hits – and I was fortunate enough to gather a collection from this period in an album called Best of Scorpions that I was expecting to be drawn from their 1980’s hits. 

Rudolf Schenker’s younger brother Michael Schenker was a member of a British hard rock band called UFO during their most successful period in the mid-1970’s.  Michael had periodically performed with his brother’s band Scorpions and formed the Michael Schenker Group in 1979; this band also is active to this day. 

(April 2013)