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* TwoHitWonder: While they have had major success in the States, they only scored two Top 40 hits in the country with "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and "Wind of Change".
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* DoingItForTheArt: The reason why Uli Jon Roth left the band: he felt they were getting too commercial.

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* DoingItForTheArt: The reason why Uli Jon Roth left the band: he felt they were getting too commercial.commercial, and he also felt stifled by their musical constraints and wanted to do something vastly different from what the rest of them wanted to do and knew that his own personal vision would never work in a Scorpions context.
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* ChartDisplacement: "Rock You Like a Hurricane" didn't even enter the German charts. Whether it warrants being only the band's fourth most viewed on Youtube (behind "Wind of Change", "Send Me An Angel" and "Still Loving You") is also disputable.
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* StreisandEffect: In 2008, Wiki/TheOtherWiki's page of the ''Virgin Killer'' album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18, and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.

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* StreisandEffect: In 2008, Wiki/TheOtherWiki's Website/TheOtherWiki's page of the ''Virgin Killer'' album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18, and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.
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* StreisandEffect: In 2008, Wiki/TheOtherWiki's page of the ''Virgin Killer'' album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18", and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.

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* StreisandEffect: In 2008, Wiki/TheOtherWiki's page of the ''Virgin Killer'' album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18", 18, and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.

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* ThePeteBest: Arguably, Curt Cress, who recorded ''Pure Instinct'', but was replaced by James Kottak soon after.

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Arguably, Curt Cress, who recorded ''Pure Instinct'', but was replaced by James Kottak soon after.


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* ReferencedBy: Canadian figure skater Iliya Kovler performed to "Maybe I, Maybe You" for [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6to3c1 his short program]] during the 2018-2019 competitive season.
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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} did the cover art for ''Lovedrive'' and ''Animal Magnetism'', plus Herman Rarebell's 1981 solo album ''Nip in the Bud''.
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* StreisandEffect: In 2008, TheOtherWiki's page of the ''Virgin Killer'' album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18", and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.

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* StreisandEffect: In 2008, TheOtherWiki's Wiki/TheOtherWiki's page of the ''Virgin Killer'' album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18", and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Billy Corgan]] does guest vocals in "The Cross", while [[Music/{{Nightwish}} Tarja Turunen]] sings in "The Good Die Young".
** Klaus himself pulled this with his appearance on Music/{{Avantasia}}'s ''The Wicked Symphony''.
** Don Music/{{Dokken}} did some background vocals on '"Blackout", when Meine had voice problems.
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** Klaus himself pulled this with his appearance on {{Avantasia}}'s ''The Wicked Symphony''.

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** Klaus himself pulled this with his appearance on {{Avantasia}}'s Music/{{Avantasia}}'s ''The Wicked Symphony''.
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* DoingItForTheArt: The reason why Uli Jon Roth left the band: he felt they were getting too commercial.
** This rift is documented in "I've Got to be Free", from ''Taken By Force''. What's hilarious is that Roth wrote a song about his disgruntlement, and then ''made Meine sing it''.


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* ThePeteBest: Arguably, Curt Cress, who recorded ''Pure Instinct'', but was replaced by James Kottak soon after.
** Numerous bassists and drummers, before the lineup solidified with Buchholz and Rarebell - and the ones that replaced them before the band settled for MÄ…ciwoda and Kottak.
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* StreisandEffect: In 2008, TheOtherWiki's page of the "Virgin Killer" album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18", and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.

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* StreisandEffect: In 2008, TheOtherWiki's page of the "Virgin Killer" ''Virgin Killer'' album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18", and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.

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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for ''Lovedrive'' and ''Animal Magnetism'', plus Herman Rarebell's 1981 solo album ''Nip in the Bud''.

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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did HeyItsThatVoice: [[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Billy Corgan]] does guest vocals in "The Cross", while [[Music/{{Nightwish}} Tarja Turunen]] sings in "The Good Die Young".
** Klaus himself pulled this with his appearance on {{Avantasia}}'s ''The Wicked Symphony''.
** Don Music/{{Dokken}} did some background vocals on '"Blackout", when Meine had voice problems.
* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} did
the cover art for ''Lovedrive'' and ''Animal Magnetism'', plus Herman Rarebell's 1981 solo album ''Nip in the Bud''.
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* StreisandEffect: In 2008, TheOtherWiki's page of the "Virgin Killer" album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18", and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.

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* StreisandEffect: In 2008, TheOtherWiki's page of the "Virgin Killer" album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18", and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.later.
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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for ''Lovedrive'' and ''Animal Magnetism'', plus Herman Rarebell's 1981 solo album ''Nip in the Bud''.

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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for ''Lovedrive'' and ''Animal Magnetism'', plus Herman Rarebell's 1981 solo album ''Nip in the Bud''.Bud''.
* StreisandEffect: In 2008, TheOtherWiki's page of the "Virgin Killer" album became one of the most popular pages on the site after the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted it for containing "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18", and the image was even spread across other sites as a result of the publicity. The IWF de-listed it three days later.
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* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for ''Lovedrive'' and ''Animal Magnetism'', plus Herman Rarebell's 1981 solo album ''Nip in the Bud''.

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