Indiantelevision.com Team

(10 December 2007 5:00 pm)

MUMBAI: Fans of rock music in the country are in for a feast. The rock group Scorpions will visit India as part of their Humanity World Tour 2007-08.

Hero Honda is the sponsor for the event.

The concerts take place in Mumbai and Bangalore on 14 and 16 December 2007. Their latest album Humanity – Hour I was released in May. The latest album comes 35 years after their debut album Lonesome Crow in 1972. In all these years, the Scorpions have produced albums such as In Trance, Tokyo Tapes, Animal Magnetism, Savage Amusement.

The band’s front-man Klaus Meine says, "Direct contact with our fans is our biggest source of inspiration. Music has been an integral part of our communication with the youth. And what better way to connect with our fans than to bring their all-time favourite band Scorpions closer to them.

" This is going to be a high point for music lovers in the country, after the very popular ‘Hero Honda Campus Rock Idols’, a nationwide contest of amateur rock bands.”

" There are a lot of people who say that the classic concept album is dead. We don’t see it that way, so we are swimming against the tide again with our new Humanity – Hour I which is a mature album, with lyrics that are often provocative and deal with the dark sides of the world we live in.

"At the same time though, we are sending our fans a positive musical message, telling them not let the insanity going on around us every day get them down”.