15 stories of unknown Scorpions shortly before their concert in Kallimarmaro



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The Scorpions come back to Greece for a "historic" as they marked it on Monday, July 16th at Kallimarmaro Stadium

Even the title of the evening, Once in a Lifetime, is not not a chance. In addition to the only venue where the concert will take place, the Athens State Orchestra will be on stage with them, presenting for the first time in Greece some of the biggest hits of the famous band . Also, for the first time, we will have the chance to listen to two of the most famous songs of Scorpions with the participation of a children 's choir.

However, as long as he appears to be somebody in the group, he does not know the following 15 stories

1. Rudolf Schenker studied electricity and photography. In the early years of his career, he worked as a photographer to finance the group.

2. "Still Loving You" has been declared the best seller of all time in France.

3. In 1983, during a concert in the United States, fifty or so fighter jets wrote their names in the sky, with special permission from the US Army!

4. There is a road in Spain under their name

5. In Moscow in 1989, when their concert with Blackout began, all Red Army soldiers began throwing their hats and jackets in the air

6. They have a star in Hollywood Rock Walk.

7. "No Pain, No Gain" became the anthem of Germany's national football team at the 1994 World Cup.

8. Scorpions is the first international group to give a concert in Lebanon.

9. In 1991, they received an official invitation from Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin to present the "wind of change", the "hymn" of the end of the Cold War

. All proceeds from the sale of the "white dove" were donated to refugees from the Rwandan civil war. The single was recorded for this purpose in 1999.

11. In Poland, they played in front of 750,000 people

12. They gave the first and only "MTV Unplugged" in an open theater, in 2013, in Athens, at the Lycabettus Theater

13. On the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1999, Scorpions played the "wind of change" at the Brandenburg Gate with the accompaniment of 166 cellos

14. They have a permanent place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

15. On the occasion of their tournament in Brazil in 2010, the Brazilian post offices issue a stamp Scorpions

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