In 1972 the SCORPIONS released their remarkable debut album, Lonesome Crow, produced by Conny Plank in Hamburg. The vocal and instrumental ingredients, which over the years were to develop into the typical, unmistakable SCORPIONS sound, were already recognisable: uncompromising, guitar-orientated hard rock, along the lines of what Jimmy Hendrix, Cream and Led Zeppelin generated in the mid-1960s. The distinctive SCORPIONS style came from the combination of two electric guitars, a fusion of fabulously forceful power riffs with dazzlingly exuberant guitar solos... added to which was the instantly recognizable voice of singer and front man Klaus Meine with his highly expressive and polished delivery. The first album Lonesome Crow set the band on the path to international success. The SCORPIONS toured as support band with Rory Gallagher, Uriah Heep and UFO. Today the band have over twenty albums, but this first album is re-released, with new high quality packaging to celebrate the bands achievement and fulfill the demand from old and new rock fans wanting to purchase this historic album