feuervogel: photo of the statue of Victory and her chariot on the Brandenburg Gate (Default)
feuervogel ([personal profile] feuervogel) wrote 2011-04-06 03:48 pm (UTC)

It was all over the radio and MTV in 1990-91! (That explains why Ben didn't know it; he only discovered 80s pop culture in 1997.) The guy wrote it in response to the fall of the Wall and the Soviet Union.

I'm always reminded any time I think about the Scorpions of this guy Jens I met in Marburg, who was a long-haired metal fan and a chem major in the year above me I think. One day at lunch, he did an imitation of them on an MTV commercial or something, in English with an outrageous German accent, "This is Rudolf Schenker, and we are the Scorpions" or something like that. Good times.

PS: founding member Michael Schenker and his Flying V might be a little familiar.

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