While there were more members of Dawn Road than Scorpions in the band, they decided to use the Scorpions name because they had released an album and were known in the German hard rock scene. Roth persuaded Rudolf Schenker to invite Klaus Meine to join, which he did soon after.
+ Rudolf Schenker attended some of Dawn Road's rehearsals and ultimately decided to join the band, which consisted of Roth, Francis Buchholz (bass), Achim Kirschning (keyboard) and Jurgen Rosenthal (drums). Rudolf decided that he wanted to work with Roth but did not want to resurrect the last Scorpions lineup. He had been offered the role as lead guitarist in Scorpions after Michael Schenker's departure but turned the band down.
In 1973, guitarist Uli Roth, a friend of the Schenker brothers, was in a band called Dawn Road. + The departure of Michael Schenker led to the break up of the Scorpions. Uli Roth was then called in temporarily to finish off the tour. At the end of the tour the members of UFO offered guitarist Michael Schenker the lead guitar job an offer which he soon accepted. During the Lonesome Crow tour, Scorpions opened for upcoming British band UFO. In 1972 the group recorded and released their debut album Lonesome Crow with Lothar Heimberg on bass and Wolfgang Dziony on drums. Things began to come together in 1969 when Schenker's younger brother Michael and vocalist Klaus Meine joined the band. At first, the band was school-kind with beat influences and Schenker himself on vocals. + Rudolf Schenker set out to find a band in 1965. + Formation and early history (1965-1973) Hence the name "Rock You Like a Hurricane" + The song "Rock You Like a Hurricane" was created because Klaus Meine and the band wanted a song that thanked all his fans and the song was a reminder to the band of how all the Scorpions world wide fans made them feel. + The consensus of the time thought MTV wouldn't hold a dime to to the already popular television/music shows of the time "Midnight Special, Hee Haw, Soul Train and American Bandstand" and would fade away into the history books. They had no money to buy a big video collection of any artists and the owners of MTV got no money/backing of any big studio. + Rock you like a Hurricane was overplayed by MTV because RCA wouldn't let MTV have any of Scorpions old videos.
Wind of change and Rock you like a Hurricane pushed The Scorps into the Limelight because of the heavy MTV push to please young rockers of the time. Only after the commercial success of "Blackout" did they start to get heavily pushed into the mainstream media of the U.S. + The "Scorps" known to metal heads of the time, reminisce more of Lonesome Crow You'll notice that Americans come from the blues side, whereas we come from the classical side, which is different." They said, 'Hey, what kind of crazy guys are these?' (laughs) We were already exotic, with a different view, and we also play our Rock music with a little bit of an ethnic touch. But when we went to America in '79, we became the exotic ones. With Rock music, there are more bands from England or America, which are more exotic than the Scorpions, who are from Germany. Rudolf Schenker, the band's rhythm guitarist, explained in an interview with Songfacts: "In the beginning of our career, we had a problem in Germany because nobody expects a German band to play Rock music. Along with Metallica, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Kiss, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne and Deep Purple they are one of the most successfull hard rock/heavy metal acts and by far the most successful German Rock band in America and England. The band has sold over 100 million records worldwide.