- Title: LEBANON: ROCK GROUP 'SCORPIONS' PERFORM IN BEIRUT
- Date: 27th January 1996
- Summary: NIGHT-SHOTS SCORPIONS PERFORMING IN CONCERT
- Embargoed: 11th February 1996 12:00
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- Location: BEIRUT, LEBANON
- Country: Lebanon
- Reuters ID: LVAEJC4G4ZW0JJDPPRZJN4FZEHNT
- Story Text: More than 15,000 Lebanese fans rocked to the sounds of German band "Scorpions" at a recent concert in the Beirut Forum.
The Beirut show, part of a world tour of the United States, Southeast Asia, Russia, Australia, South America and Europe, was a rare occurrance in the Arab world.
"This is our first time in Lebanon and the Middle East," lead singer Klaus Meine told a news conference.
The band also filmed its new video clip for the single "When You Came Into My Life".
The classic rock love song was shot mainly in downtown war-savaged Beirut, translating the song into a symbolic story of power and love in the form of a modern lady Godiva riding through the streets of Beirut.
The five-member Scorpions once joined a jam session in the Kremlin hosted by Mikhail Gorbachov and in 1989 played with other international rock stars like Ozzy Osbourne and Bon Jovi at the "Moscow Peace Festivals" in Lenin stadium.
The event resulted in the band releasing what they call the glasnost hymn "Winds of Change" in their "Crazy World" album, a song which the concert brochure said "created a rock document of the historical changes going on at the time." In 1990, the Scorpions performed at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate in the presence of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
"This show is by far the biggest musical production ever done in Lebanon...This event shows that winds of change are always somewhere over Beirut," said Nagi Bazz, whose Buzz Productions has contracted the "Scorpions" and other bands that have played Beirut in the past few years. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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