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
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