a rock lesson and a call for peace at the last concert of the European tour, in Lisbon – Observador
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The audience was impatient. The Scorpions concert at Altice Arena was scheduled for 9 pm, but it was 9:10 pm and the music was still playing inside the venue, almost full. The fans reacted to every movement on top of the stage, covered by a huge black cloth with the name of the German band. But it was of little use — we had to wait until around 9:15 pm for the music to stop, the cloth to fall and another piece of fabric to appear, with the message: “Are you ready to rock?”.
Everything about Thursday’s concert was built to recall the Scorpions’ status as world rock legends. Formed in 1965 in the city of Hanover, the band had its most successful period in the 1980s and 1990s, when publications such as animal magnetism, Blackout or Crazy world. Almost 60 years later, the Scorpions are still on the road to show that the “death of rock” is a myth and that, despite the rise of other musical genres, there are still many rock believers, the name of the most recent album, which took them back to Europe and landed in Lisbon. This Monday night’s concert at the Altice Arena was the last of the European tour, before the group ventured into North American lands. Fatigue was particularly evident in Klaus Meine, lead singer and one of the oldest members of the Scorpions. At 74 years old, Meine no longer has the energy and agility of other times. At the end of the performance, he moved with some difficulty, unlike the rest of the band, in great shape from the accumulated shows.
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