Biography
The heat spoke about Russia singer Claus Main is known to lovers of music as a permanent leader of the rock - the "Scorpions" team. The vocalist is the author of the majority of the group songs, including such hits like "WIND OF CHANGE", "YOU AND I", "MOMENT OF GLORY", "SPEEDY'S SOMING" and "STILL LOVING YOU".Childhood and youth
Klaus Willy Main appeared on May 25, 1948, located at the foot of the mountains of the city of Hanover (Germany). Despite the fact that the artist was born in the family of ordinary workers, his thrust for music was marked since an early age. According to Claus himself, he understood what he wants to devote life to the day when he heard the songs of the group "The Beatles" and the compositions of the singer Elvis Presley.
Discarding in the son of craving for creative self-realization, the parents bought a hot child's guitar. The active boy mastered the string tool a couple of months after his acquisition. The artist has repeatedly admitted that the memories of how he organized chamber concerts, on which the households were pleased with the fulfillment of singles popular at that time, to this day they call a smile on his face.
During the course of self-learning, Main also visited the lessons of singing. His first teacher vocals had an extremely effective method of learning: when he could not take a note, a teacher of Colop Claus needles. After receiving a certificate of secondary education in 1964, the ambitious young man entered the local Designer College, at the end of which he worked for a short time at the driver and sang in the "The Mushrooms" and "Copernicus" teams.
As a student, Vocalist met the guitarist Rudolph Shenker, who suggested a vicious lane to unite to create his own group. At that time, Claus considered the undertaking of a waste of time and refused. After the collapse "Copernicus", Claus accepted the Shenkera proposal and, together with the founded group, Michael joined the popularity of the "Scorpions" musical team
Music
In 1970, Claus officially joined the "Scorpions", becoming its indispensable participant. It is the Peru of Claus who belongs to almost all the lyrics of the group songs. A vivid example of such a work is a recorded by a group in 3 Singles "WIND OF CHANGE".
Together with "Scorpions", Main has passed the period of the formation of a group musical style, recording all the heavier albums. This breakthrough happened in 1979, when the Lovedrive plate successfully conquered the US music charts.
In 1981, Scorpions were at the peak of popularity, but before recording the album "Blackout" at Claus began problems with voice. At first, the sore examination was considered the usual cold turned out to be a fungus of voice ligaments. The vocalist wanted to leave "scorpions" so as not to interfere with their triumph, but the members of the musical team persuaded the lane not to chop off the shoulder and return to them after complete recovery.
After two operations and almost a year of rehabilitation, his voice sounded again. As a result, the album "Blackout" became one of the most successful in the history of the group, hitting the 10th place of the Billboard chart, and the "No One Like You" composition was the first to "Mainstream Rock Chart".
Two years later, the "Love At First Sting" plate appeared on the shelves. The platinum album included such famous hits like "Rock You Like a Hurricane", "Bad Boys Running Wild", "COMING HOME", "BIG CITY NIGHTS" and "STILL LOVING YOU".
In the Savage Amusement album released in 1988, in addition to classic songs ("Don't Stop At The Top", "Media Overkill"), there were also tracks with elements of progressive rock ("Walking On The Edge", "Passion Rules The Game ").
1990 was marked by the Release plate "Crazy World". Many critics evaluated this disc as one of the best in the work of the group.
It was in this album that the world-famous compositions "WIND OF CHANGE" and "SEND ME AN ANGEL" appeared. Five years after the release of the work, a multiplatin status was assigned.
Sixteenth Studio Conceptual Album "Humanity: Hour I" saw the light in May 2007. In addition to the "Scorpions" themselves, other well-known personalities worked on the disk. The co-author of the Opening Album Composition "Hour I" performed guitarist John 5, and in the song "The Cross" Klaus sang a duet with the frontman group "SMASHING PUMPKINS" Billy Corgan.
In 2009, in honor of Freddie Mercury's birthday, Klaus at a concert in the Swiss city Basel performed the song Vocalist of the Queen Group - "Love Of My Life". In March 2010, the release of the album "Sting in the Tail" took place. The Single "Raised On Rock" took the 2nd position in the "Classic Rock Mediabase", and the record itself - 23 position in the chart "The Billboard 200" and the 6th of the Rock Albums chart.
In 2015, an eighteenth studio album "Return to Forever" appeared on the shelves. The plate included 12 compositions and 4 bonus tracks available for listening when buying a gift edition.
It is known that when writing a material for the album, the developments remaining after the releases of the Blackout plates, "Love at First Sting", "Savage Amusement" and "Crazy WORLD" were used. In March of the same year, the world premiere of the documentary film "FOREVER AND A DAY", in the center of the plot of which - the history of the creation of the legendary rock - the collective "Scorpions".
Personal life
The Soloist "Scorpies" destroyed the Zapranny stereotype that freedom-loving rock musicians are inconsistent in their sympathies and often change their life companions. With his first and only wife Gabi, the artist "Maybe I Maybe You" met in 1972 at one of the concerts "Scorpions".
In conversations with representatives of the media, the singer repeatedly said that he fell in love with his spouse at first glance. Despite the dense work schedule, the vocalist found time and for work, and for the elect, which at the time of their first meeting was only 16 years old.
Two years after dating, lovers began to live together, and in 1977 Klaus made Gabi's proposal of hands and hearts. In 1985, the beloved artist gave him the Son. Happy parents called Kristian boy.
Claus Main Now
During the existence of "scorpions", the musicians toured three times the world with "farewell" concerts. In 2017, Claus Main, a couple with guitarist Rudolph Shenker officially announced that the Crazy World Tour scheduled for this year is not final and that the team participants decided to continue their career. Since the beginning of June, SCORPIONS gave concerts in France and the United States, and in October-November, Rockers will perform in Russia.
This time, the artists will visit seven Russian cities: Sochi, Krasnodar, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Ufa and Ekaterinburg. The name of the current tour gave the album "Crazy World" in 1990, whose track list included a popular composition - "WIND OF CHANGE". Few people know that Claus wrote this single after visiting Moscow.
Despite the fact that at a permanent leader "Scorpions", 163 cm has no accounts on social networks, in Vkontakte and Instagram, "Scorpions" fans created pages on which, in addition to photographs and interviews, materials related to creative are regularly laid out. The biography of the members of the music team.
Discography
- 1972 - "Lonesome Crow"
- 1975 - "In Trance"
- 1979 - "LOVEDRIVE"
- 1980 - "Animal Magnetism"
- 1982 - "Blackout"
- 1984 - "Love At First Sting"
- 1988 - Savage Amusement
- 1990 - "CRAZY WORLD"
- 1993 - Face The Heat
- 1996 - "Pure Instinct"
- 1999 - "Eye II Eye"
- 2004 - "Unbreakable"
- 2007 - "Humanity: Hour I"
- 2010 - "Sting In The Tail"
- 2015 - "Return to Forever"