1. Michael Schenker was born on 10 January 1955 and is a German guitarist.
28 Facts About Michael Schenker
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Michael Schenker played in the rock band UFO and leads the Michael Schenker Group.
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Michael Schenker was an early member of the hard rock band Scorpions, a band co-founded by his elder brother Rudolf Schenker.
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Michael Schenker left the band in 1978 to briefly rejoin Scorpions for the recording of Lovedrive, and then to form MSG.
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Michael Schenker has rejoined UFO three times, producing an album each time.
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Michael Schenker started playing guitar at an early age, after his brother Rudolf got a Gibson Flying V guitar for his birthday, which captured his imagination.
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Michael Schenker played his first gig when he was 11, with Rudolf and the Scorpions in a nightclub.
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Michael Schenker played with the Scorpions on their debut Lonesome Crow at the age of 16.
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Michael Schenker was invited to be lead guitarist for UFO.
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Michael Schenker cowrote most of the songs on UFO's major label debut Phenomenon.
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Michael Schenker briefly rejoined Scorpions in late 1978, when they were recording Lovedrive.
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In 1979, Michael Schenker briefly toured with the band in support of the album.
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Michael Schenker blamed his very short stay on finding out he did not enjoy playing other people's songs.
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Michael Schenker was permanently replaced by Matthias Jabs, who had originally joined Scorpions before Schenker's return.
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Michael Schenker auditioned for Aerosmith in 1979 after Joe Perry left.
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But, Osbourne claims, Michael Schenker made too many outlandish demands.
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Michael Schenker appeared on the 1983 studio album and the band's second live album.
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Michael Schenker co-wrote nearly the whole of their reunion album, Walk on Water, and toured with them briefly.
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Michael Schenker then resurrected the Michael Schenker Group with all new members and recorded three more albums, Written in the Sand, The Unforgiven, and Be Aware of Scorpions before rejoining UFO for two further releases, Covenant and Sharks.
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Michael Schenker fell on hard times in the early 2000s, despite his rejoining UFO that year.
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Michael Schenker later recorded the album Arachnophobiac and supported it with two years of touring.
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Michael Schenker put together a new album of songs called Tales of Rock'n'Roll to celebrate the anniversary and enlisted singers from each iteration of the band to sing on the album.
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Early 2008, Michael Schenker worked with Gary Barden, Don Airey, Simon Phillips, and Neil Murray on a new MSG album In the Midst of Beauty, which was released in May 2008, followed by touring.
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In 2009 Michael Schenker toured extensively including Russia, UK and the US with MSG including original members Gary Barden and Chris Glen.
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In November 2010, Michael Schenker was given the Marshall "11" award in London along with other rock legends including Ron Wood and Slash.
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In 2011 Michael Schenker released a new album, Temple of Rock.
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Michael Schenker released an album of UFO cover songs from his initial tenure with that band, titled My Years with UFO, on September 20,2024.
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Michael Schenker's main guitar for most of his career was a Gibson Flying V, which he typically played through a "cocked" wah-wah pedal and Marshall amplifiers.