German hard rockers Scorpions are coming back to Las Vegas in 2024, as the legendary band has announced a residency celebrating the 40th anniversary of their classic album Love at First Sting. The shows will see Scorpions performing the album, as well as a selection of other hits.
The nine-show residency, dubbed “Scorpions – Love at First Sting Las Vegas,” will kick off on April 11th at Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. This marks the return of the band to Vegas, as they had a 2022 residency at the same venue, dubbed “Sin City Nights,” which sold out all nine performances.
A Live Nation pre-sale begins Tuesday (November 7th) at 10 a.m. Pt using the code Backstage, with a general onsale starting November 9th via Ticketmaster. Fans can also check for deals or pick up tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.
The nine-show residency, dubbed “Scorpions – Love at First Sting Las Vegas,” will kick off on April 11th at Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. This marks the return of the band to Vegas, as they had a 2022 residency at the same venue, dubbed “Sin City Nights,” which sold out all nine performances.
A Live Nation pre-sale begins Tuesday (November 7th) at 10 a.m. Pt using the code Backstage, with a general onsale starting November 9th via Ticketmaster. Fans can also check for deals or pick up tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.
- 11/3/2023
- by Anne Erickson
- Consequence - Music
Exclusive: Wind of Change, the wild podcast that asks whether the CIA wrote the 1990 Scorpions hit song, is being adapted for television at Hulu.
Deadline understands that the streamer has landed the project, which is being developed by Alex Karpovsky, in a competitive situation.
The Patrick Radden Keefe-hosted podcast, which launched in May and became one of the buzziest audio series of the year, is produced by Pod Save America producer Crooked Media, Pineapple Street Studios, which produces podcasts such as The Clearing and The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow, and Spotify.
It is being written and exec produced by Karpovsky, who starred in Amazon’s television adaptation of Homecoming and wrote and directed Oh Jerome, No — which was part of Fxx comedy Cake — and exec produced by Single Parent and Life in Pieces EP Jason Winer. 20th Television is the studio and is producing in association...
Deadline understands that the streamer has landed the project, which is being developed by Alex Karpovsky, in a competitive situation.
The Patrick Radden Keefe-hosted podcast, which launched in May and became one of the buzziest audio series of the year, is produced by Pod Save America producer Crooked Media, Pineapple Street Studios, which produces podcasts such as The Clearing and The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow, and Spotify.
It is being written and exec produced by Karpovsky, who starred in Amazon’s television adaptation of Homecoming and wrote and directed Oh Jerome, No — which was part of Fxx comedy Cake — and exec produced by Single Parent and Life in Pieces EP Jason Winer. 20th Television is the studio and is producing in association...
- 12/16/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
What if it turned out your favorite song had been written by the CIA? That’s exactly what a new podcast aims to determine.
In 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, West German band the Scorpions released their prescient ballad “Wind of Change.” With earnest lyrics about togetherness and the “children of tomorrow,” the song sounds like an anthem to the end of the Cold War. But, according to The New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe, there’s reason to believe the hit ballad could have been a...
In 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, West German band the Scorpions released their prescient ballad “Wind of Change.” With earnest lyrics about togetherness and the “children of tomorrow,” the song sounds like an anthem to the end of the Cold War. But, according to The New Yorker’s Patrick Radden Keefe, there’s reason to believe the hit ballad could have been a...
- 7/14/2020
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
We all know the CIA runs the music industry. Didn’t The Simpsons leak that years ago? If not a new podcast series will follow the idea to its logical conclusion. If CIA hitman and Gong Show host Chuck Barris could write “Palisade Park,” why couldn’t other agents come up with a catchy tune. Spotify’s latest original podcast documentary series Wind of Change will explore whether the Scorpions’ 1990 song was Cold War propaganda, according to Deadline.
The no longer secret project will be produced by Spotify, along with New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, “Pod Save America” producer Crooked Media, and Pineapple Street Studios, which produced Missing Richard Simmons.
Sung by Klaus Meine, “Wind of Change” was the song which played during the Glasnostic end of the Cold War. Its music video featured the building and dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the most visible symbol of the...
The no longer secret project will be produced by Spotify, along with New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, “Pod Save America” producer Crooked Media, and Pineapple Street Studios, which produced Missing Richard Simmons.
Sung by Klaus Meine, “Wind of Change” was the song which played during the Glasnostic end of the Cold War. Its music video featured the building and dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the most visible symbol of the...
- 4/27/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Did the CIA write Scorpions’ hit song Wind of Change? This is the wild story of Spotify’s latest original podcast documentary series.
The audio platform has teamed up with New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, Pod Save America producer Crooked Media and Missing Richard Simmons producer Pineapple Street Studios for Wind of Change.
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The eight-part series, which debuts May 11, follows Keefe as he explores a rumor he heard from a source within the CIA: The CIA was behind the 1990 international hit. He will look at spies doing the unthinkable, a secret history of propaganda hidden in pop music, and a maze of government secrets as he...
The audio platform has teamed up with New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, Pod Save America producer Crooked Media and Missing Richard Simmons producer Pineapple Street Studios for Wind of Change.
More from DeadlinePodcast Networks See Shift In Listening Habits, Provide Much-Needed Comfort During PandemicStreaming Study Finds Netflix, Hulu Led In New Subscriptions - In Pre-Disney+ Era'Pod Save America' Producer Crooked Media Unveils Podcast Slate Including Shows From Rachel Bonnetta & Rachna Fruchbom
The eight-part series, which debuts May 11, follows Keefe as he explores a rumor he heard from a source within the CIA: The CIA was behind the 1990 international hit. He will look at spies doing the unthinkable, a secret history of propaganda hidden in pop music, and a maze of government secrets as he...
- 4/27/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In many ways, fact-checking a movie about Mötley Crüe is a ridiculous task, especially a film that says right off the bat it is merely “based” on a true story. It’s also a film that breaks the fourth wall and tells the audience that things didn’t happen quite as they’re being presented. The whole thing is also based on a book that bassist Nikki Sixx now claims has at least one story – in which he writes that he “pretty much” raped a woman – was “possibly greatly embellished or made up.
- 3/22/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
When there’s something strange in your neighborhood. Who are you going to call? Ghostbusters! The show should have played this iconic song in this week’s episode of Scorpion. Why? We’re going after ghosts, that’s why! Well, technically there’s no such thing as ghosts, but the person that enlisted Scorpions’ help this week believes in the supernatural. The mission, aside from ghost hunting, is to stop a wayward ship carrying toxic and explosive liquid natural gas. It’s initially heading to a port at Long Beach. The problem is, the vessel is remotely controlled, and due to the electric magnetic field that affected
Scorpion: Team Become Ghostbusters. Walter Appreciates Music.
Scorpion: Team Become Ghostbusters. Walter Appreciates Music.
- 10/31/2017
- by Tiffany C. Lockhart
- TVovermind.com
Ufa Distribution teams up with Global Screen to sell So Viel Zeit, based on Frank Goosen novel.
The newly launched Ufa Distribution is teaming up with Munich-based Global Screen to handle international sales on SS-gb director Philipp Kadelbach’s new feature So viel Zeit (translated as So Much Time).
The adaptation of Frank Goosen’s eponymous novel about the rock band Bochums Steine, who make a comeback after 30 years when a band member learns that he is terminally ill, features a stellar cast including Jan Josef Liefers (Vier gegen die Bank), Jürgen Vogel (The Wave), Armin Rohde (Taxi), Matthias Bundschuh (Wir sind die Neuen) and Richy Müller (Schlussmacher) as the boys in the band.
In addition, Kadelbach and the producers of Ufa Fiction and Feine Filme have landed Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs of the legendary band Scorpions to make a cameo appearance.
Backing for the co-production with public broadcaster Ard Degeto and Sky has come...
The newly launched Ufa Distribution is teaming up with Munich-based Global Screen to handle international sales on SS-gb director Philipp Kadelbach’s new feature So viel Zeit (translated as So Much Time).
The adaptation of Frank Goosen’s eponymous novel about the rock band Bochums Steine, who make a comeback after 30 years when a band member learns that he is terminally ill, features a stellar cast including Jan Josef Liefers (Vier gegen die Bank), Jürgen Vogel (The Wave), Armin Rohde (Taxi), Matthias Bundschuh (Wir sind die Neuen) and Richy Müller (Schlussmacher) as the boys in the band.
In addition, Kadelbach and the producers of Ufa Fiction and Feine Filme have landed Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker, Matthias Jabs of the legendary band Scorpions to make a cameo appearance.
Backing for the co-production with public broadcaster Ard Degeto and Sky has come...
- 3/3/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
So much for the three-peat.
"Captain America: Civil War" could have come out on top for the third straight weekend. It could even have lost 45 percent of last weekend's business (when it earned $72.6 million) and still outdistanced this weekend's three new wide releases. Even after three weeks, you might still have expected the Marvel mega-movie to outdistance three seemingly-undistinguished newcomers: a period action comedy starring no-longer-a-box-office-draw Russell Crowe and never-really-a-box-office-draw Ryan Gosling; a Seth Rogen comedy sequel, and a cartoon based on an app that everyone thought was really cool six years ago.
Nonetheless, "The Angry Birds Movie" knocked down "Captain America," along with "The Nice Guys" (pictured) and "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising," as easily as a short stack of pigs. The cartoon earned an estimated $39.0 million, about $1 million more than distributor Sony had predicted. "Civil War" had to settle for second, with an estimated $33.1 million (down 54 percent from a...
"Captain America: Civil War" could have come out on top for the third straight weekend. It could even have lost 45 percent of last weekend's business (when it earned $72.6 million) and still outdistanced this weekend's three new wide releases. Even after three weeks, you might still have expected the Marvel mega-movie to outdistance three seemingly-undistinguished newcomers: a period action comedy starring no-longer-a-box-office-draw Russell Crowe and never-really-a-box-office-draw Ryan Gosling; a Seth Rogen comedy sequel, and a cartoon based on an app that everyone thought was really cool six years ago.
Nonetheless, "The Angry Birds Movie" knocked down "Captain America," along with "The Nice Guys" (pictured) and "Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising," as easily as a short stack of pigs. The cartoon earned an estimated $39.0 million, about $1 million more than distributor Sony had predicted. "Civil War" had to settle for second, with an estimated $33.1 million (down 54 percent from a...
- 5/23/2016
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
What may be most surprising about Katja von Garnier’s music doc Forever and a Day, a contemporary portrait of iconic hard rock/heavy metal German band The Scorpions, is to note their five decades worth of musical presence. Formed by Rudolf Schenker in 1965, the band allowed Garnier to tag along as they embarked on what was meant to be their Final Sting tour, an eighteen month stretch of performances which were set to wrap up in Munich. However, based on the jubilant reaction as they performed, the band decided to then extend the tour. The result becomes a ruminative pondering on the nature of an artist’s retirement and what happens when creative outlets are eventually restrained. In between playdates, Garnier completes a historical portrait of the band’s ups and downs throughout the past fifty years.
As one of the band’s managers remarks early on, “it’s...
As one of the band’s managers remarks early on, “it’s...
- 1/5/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Interview with Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick.
The Berlinale’s greater emphasis on television this year should not be interpreted as the first step towards a German Mip, according to festival director Dieter Kosslick.
In an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily, Kosslick said: ¨We don’t want to make a Mip TV or Mipcom, that’s as sure as day follows night and anything more would overstretch us.¨
He pointed out that that the Berlinale had had successful screenings of quality TV in the past with such productions as Dominik Graf’s Im Namen des Verbrechens, Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.
“We have now been working for the past two years on this programme which is composed of two parts: a series of discussions on new trends at the Efm and two days of drama series integrated into the festival programme and shown at Haus der Berliner [link=tt...
The Berlinale’s greater emphasis on television this year should not be interpreted as the first step towards a German Mip, according to festival director Dieter Kosslick.
In an exclusive interview with ScreenDaily, Kosslick said: ¨We don’t want to make a Mip TV or Mipcom, that’s as sure as day follows night and anything more would overstretch us.¨
He pointed out that that the Berlinale had had successful screenings of quality TV in the past with such productions as Dominik Graf’s Im Namen des Verbrechens, Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.
“We have now been working for the past two years on this programme which is composed of two parts: a series of discussions on new trends at the Efm and two days of drama series integrated into the festival programme and shown at Haus der Berliner [link=tt...
- 1/27/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
This week’s special Scorpion Christmas was extra special because it demanded of our nerdy heroes to use their math and physics skills to conjure a Christmas miracle. If you were expecting a sedate and laid back episode, you will be disappointed, but if you were looking for something more intense with perhaps inappropriate bursts of silly humor, than this was the entry for you.
Using a spin on the “boy in a well” trope, Scorpion delivered a frantic entry this week that had the gift of life, the love of family, and a little boy looking for hope, brought to him by a man who manages to stuff himself down a skinny and potentially unsafe tunnel.
Even before a tragedy at the beach springs the Scorpions into action, it was already a pretty blue Christmas for the geniuses. Despite Paige’s attempts to set a yule tide tone with some Christmas kitsch,...
Using a spin on the “boy in a well” trope, Scorpion delivered a frantic entry this week that had the gift of life, the love of family, and a little boy looking for hope, brought to him by a man who manages to stuff himself down a skinny and potentially unsafe tunnel.
Even before a tragedy at the beach springs the Scorpions into action, it was already a pretty blue Christmas for the geniuses. Despite Paige’s attempts to set a yule tide tone with some Christmas kitsch,...
- 12/16/2014
- by Adam A. Donaldson
- We Got This Covered
It’s that time again, and the Fall TV schedule is packed this year. It somehow seems that there aren’t as many new shows hitting, but there are some big ones.
On the other hand, that’s a good sign for the popularity of returning shows, even if some of them may be pushing their luck at this point. Sticking with shows that work is great, but at some point we’re milking things, and don’t actually have fresh ideas to work into the routine. I’m oddly curious to see how some of these long-running series perform, especially with the cable networks throwing out a lot of great shows.
At any rate, there’s a lot going on, so let’s just jump into the mix.
Links in the schedule are to reviews, and this page will be updated as reviews become available. New shows are in blue.
On the other hand, that’s a good sign for the popularity of returning shows, even if some of them may be pushing their luck at this point. Sticking with shows that work is great, but at some point we’re milking things, and don’t actually have fresh ideas to work into the routine. I’m oddly curious to see how some of these long-running series perform, especially with the cable networks throwing out a lot of great shows.
At any rate, there’s a lot going on, so let’s just jump into the mix.
Links in the schedule are to reviews, and this page will be updated as reviews become available. New shows are in blue.
- 9/22/2014
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Two things have always remained with me from Geoff Murphy's 1992 sci-fi action flick Freejack. The first is how Rene Russo’s character was supposed to age 18 years, but only her hairstyle changed. The second is “Hit Between the Eyes”, the title song provided by the Scorpions.
Based on Robert Sheckley's novel Immortality, Inc., which was set thousands of years in the future rather than 18 years later, Freejack stars Emilio Estevez as a racecar driver teleported at the moment of his fiery fatal car wreck from 1991 to the futuristic world of 2009, a time in which the hole in the ozone layer has ravaged the impoverished populace, bubble cars are the most popular vehicle, and dying billionaire Anthony Hopkins plans to transplant his mind into Estevez’s body. Emilio escapes, is branded a “freejack,” and now finds himself pursued by evil bounty hunters called “bonejackers” led by Mick Jagger in...
Based on Robert Sheckley's novel Immortality, Inc., which was set thousands of years in the future rather than 18 years later, Freejack stars Emilio Estevez as a racecar driver teleported at the moment of his fiery fatal car wreck from 1991 to the futuristic world of 2009, a time in which the hole in the ozone layer has ravaged the impoverished populace, bubble cars are the most popular vehicle, and dying billionaire Anthony Hopkins plans to transplant his mind into Estevez’s body. Emilio escapes, is branded a “freejack,” and now finds himself pursued by evil bounty hunters called “bonejackers” led by Mick Jagger in...
- 6/15/2013
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
The Breast Cancer Charities of America Fashion Show and Fundraiser will take place in Hollywood on Wednesday, October 19, hosted by Tiffany Hines, Mc’d by Layla Kayleigh, and with a guest Celeb DJ set by Taryn Manning.
Among the famous faces expected to attend are Mena Suvari, Aimee Teegarden, Gretchen Rossi, Tara Buck, Barbara Alyn Woods, Emily Alyn Lind, Charlotte Ross, Amy Rider, Natasha Alam, Liz Fuller, Katie Gill, Christie Lynn Smith, Carissa Rosario, Bai Ling, Klaus Meine and many others.
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Among the famous faces expected to attend are Mena Suvari, Aimee Teegarden, Gretchen Rossi, Tara Buck, Barbara Alyn Woods, Emily Alyn Lind, Charlotte Ross, Amy Rider, Natasha Alam, Liz Fuller, Katie Gill, Christie Lynn Smith, Carissa Rosario, Bai Ling, Klaus Meine and many others.
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- 10/18/2011
- Look to the Stars
German rockers the Scorpions' farewell tour has been hit by illness - singer Klaus Meine is suffering a chest cold and has been told he can't perform until Thursday, July 1. The diagnosis has prompted the "Rock You Like a Hurricane" hitmakers to cancel a performance in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday, June 30.
Meine is expected to be ready to take to the stage again on Thursday in Detroit, Michigan. A statement from the band reads, "It is with a heavy heart that we have to disappoint our longtime, devoted fans in Columbus, Ohio by not being able to perform there. Klaus' doctors have told him in no uncertain terms that he needs the proper rest so he can shake the bug and successfully continue the tour."
Cinderella, the Scorpions' support act for the canceled show, will perform a free show for Ohio fans.
Meine is expected to be ready to take to the stage again on Thursday in Detroit, Michigan. A statement from the band reads, "It is with a heavy heart that we have to disappoint our longtime, devoted fans in Columbus, Ohio by not being able to perform there. Klaus' doctors have told him in no uncertain terms that he needs the proper rest so he can shake the bug and successfully continue the tour."
Cinderella, the Scorpions' support act for the canceled show, will perform a free show for Ohio fans.
- 6/30/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Great beer aside, the Scorpions are perhaps Germany.s greatest contribution to rock and roll. For over four decades, the band.s signature twin-guitar attack, arena roof-raising drums, and the hurricane-force vocals of frontman Klaus Meine, have thrilled audiences worldwide. But now, the final curtain, the last bow draws near, as the group readies the release of its swan song album, Sting In the Tail (due in stores and online March 23), and farewell worldwide tour. Looking back on 40 years of fun (sex, drugs, and rock and roll) and fundamental changes (the fall of the Berlin wall), Meine reflects, .In the lyrics and in the music, we always tried to reflect what we saw, what we experienced...
- 2/25/2010
- by Jim Villanueva
- Monsters and Critics
Legendary German rockers Scorpions are splitting up after 40 years. The "Wind of Change" hitmakers announced on their website that they have decided to walk away from the music industry while they are "on a high note."
But fans of the band will get their chance to say goodbye - the rockers are embarking on a two-year farewell tour before hanging up their leather jackets. A statement on the band's website reads, "It was always our pleasure, our purpose in life, our passion and we were fortunate enough to make music for you - whether it was live on stage or in the studio, creating new songs."
"While we were working on our album these past few months, we could literally feel how powerful and creative our work was - and how much fun we were still having, in the process. But there was also something else. We want to end...
But fans of the band will get their chance to say goodbye - the rockers are embarking on a two-year farewell tour before hanging up their leather jackets. A statement on the band's website reads, "It was always our pleasure, our purpose in life, our passion and we were fortunate enough to make music for you - whether it was live on stage or in the studio, creating new songs."
"While we were working on our album these past few months, we could literally feel how powerful and creative our work was - and how much fun we were still having, in the process. But there was also something else. We want to end...
- 1/26/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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