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Scorpions will not be part of the Def Leppard tour in Melbourne tonight.

Australia has been announced as the focus country at Reeperbahn Festival 2019 (Hamburg, 18th – 21st September 2019). With Germany overtaking the UK as the largest music market in Europe, and the third largest globally (behind the USA and Japan), the opportunity for Australian artists and industry to make inroads in the territory is ripe.

Rudolf Schenker was 16 years old when he formed his band Scorpions in Germany. When they tour Australia for the first time in November he will be 70. It is the only job he has ever had.

Israeli singer Abi Ofarim, best known for the 1968 hit ‘Cinderella Rockefella’, has died in Munich at age 80.

Def Leppard will tour Australia and New Zealand in November with Scorpions as special guests on their first ever Australian tour.

Gabriele Susanne Kerner, AKA Nena and Dave Stewart have a brand new song together titled ‘Be My Rebel’.

Cookin’ On 3 Burners 2017 song ‘Real Life Baby’ has been given a make-over by German duo Scene Writers.

Germany has been named as the first Music Passport country with the countries music industry reps heading to Melbourne for the Face The Music conference.

The last five shows of the Scorpions’ U.S. tour with Megadeth have been cancelled after doctors advised lead singer Klaus Meine to rest his voice.

Credited with giving the German psychedelic rockers their driving rhythm section, Holger Czukay, was found at his apartment.

German metal band Accept will return to Australia in September but for one show only … for Melbourne.

Over the past few years, Kraftwerk have played residencies at a number of art galleries and other venues around the world, performing one of eight studio albums in their entirety each night.

Jaki Liebezeit, the influential German drummer from the band Can, died on Sunday (January 22) after suffering from pneumonia. He was 78.

The city of Buenos Aires, Argentina has relented and will allow Kraftwerk to play at Luna Park Stadium on November 23.

Melbourne guitarist Joe Matera has been invited back to Germany to appear at the Wings N Wheels Festival in Hamburg in July.

Lou Bega’s 1999 hit ‘Mambo No 5’ has become the 154th song to sell 1,000,000 copies in the UK 15 years after its release.

Motorhead was forced to cut their appearance at the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany after lead singer and bassist Lemmy appeared to be unable to continue.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse played the rarely performed Bob Dylan cover ‘Blowing In The Wind’ at the first show of their European tour in Germany last night.