Michael Schenker
Michael Schenker (born 10 January 1955) is a German guitarist. He played in the rock band UFO and leads the Michael Schenker Group (MSG). He was an early member of the hard rock band Scorpions, a band co-founded by his elder brother Rudolf Schenker. In the mid-1970s, Schenker joined UFO, playing lead and rhythm guitar. He left the band in 1978 to briefly rejoin Scorpions for the recording of Lovedrive, and then to form MSG. He has rejoined UFO three times, producing an album each time. Schenker continues to perform and record. He is regarded as one of the most influential guitarists of the 1970s, and has been called "a legendary figure in the history of metal guitar."
Genre: hard-rock, glam-metal, german-hard-rock
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Top Tracks
- Holiday - Live Version
- Doctor Doctor
- Coast to Coast - Live Version
- Doctor Doctor - High Voltage Version (Live)
- Lovedrive - Live Version
- Into the Arena - Live Version
- Doctor Doctor - Live Version
- Rock You Like a Hurricane - Live Version
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - Live Version
- Armed and Ready - Live Version
- Rock Bottom - Live Version
- On and On - Live Version
- Hanging On - Live Version
- All Shook Up
- Lights Out - Live Version
- Cry for the Nations - Live Version
- Another Piece of Meat - Live Version
- Rock You Like a Hurricane - High Voltage Version (Live)
- Blackout - Live Version
- Shoot Shoot - Live Version
Albums (41)
- 50 Years Of Rock'n'Roll (Live & Rare) (2023)
- Vortex (2022)
- A Decade of the Mad Axeman (2018)
- Fest - Live Tokyo International Forum Hall A (2017)
- The Sessions (2016)
- Hard Rock Superstars (2015)
- Power Rock Duos (2015)
- Headbanger's Box (2014)
- Live At Sweden Rock - 30th Anniversary Show (2013)
- Temple of Rock - Live in Europe (2012)
- Seeking Major Tom (2011)
- Siggi Schwarz and the Rock Legends (feat. Chris Thompson, Geoff Whitehorn, Michael Schenker, Steve Lukather, Alex Conti) (2011)
- Temple Of Rock (2011)
- Miss Claustrophobia (2011)
- '80s Sleaze Rock (2011)
- We Wish You A Metal Xmas And A Headbanging New Year (2010)
- 100 Rock Power Tracks from the '70s, '80s & '90s (2010)
- '80s Metal Essentials (2010)
- Raised on Classic Rock (2010)
- Classic Rock Hits (2010)
- This Is Metal (2010)
- Classic Rock Greats (2009)
- Finding My Way (2009)
- Covered In Classic Rock (2009)
- Hair Metal Mania (2009)
- Massive Classic Rock (2009)
- Hair Metal in Covers (2009)
- Michael Schenker: Greatest Riffs (1970)
- 100 Hair Metal Anthems (2008)
- Classic Rock Monsters (2008)
- Guitar Shredders (2008)
- Classic Rock Masters (Re-Recorded Versions) (2008)
- This Is Guitar Gods Vol. 2 (2007)
- Doctor, Doctor - The Kulick Sessions (2007)
- 80s Metal Essentials (2007)
- Finding My Way (2007)
- Gypsy Lady (1970)
- Numbers From The Beast: An All-Star Tribute To Iron Maiden (2005)
- Gitárpárbaj (2002)
- Legends of Rock (Live at Castle Donington) (2002)
- Thank You 3 (2002)
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