Rudolf Schenker (born 31 August 1948 in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony) is a German guitarist and founding member of the hard rock band Scorpions, being the rhythm/lead guitarist and one of the main songwriters of the band. (More from Wikipedia)
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.
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