Enjoy the zoo

And walk down 42nd Street

You wanna be excited too

And you will feel the heat.

In the late 1970s, 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan was one of the most vibrant streets in the bustling melting pot of New York City. Just a stone’s throw from Times Square, cheap peep shows stood next to sex shops, and drug stores crammed between shady facades, behind which you could donate blood for a few dollars. In the local scene, this street between Broadway and the Theater District was known as The Zoo. And around The Zoo, you could find everything that defined the sunny and dark sides of the Big Apple. When the Scorpions performed in New York in 1979 as part of their US tour, they couldn’t help but notice 42nd Street and its pulsating, yet gritty, nightlife. Klaus Meine immortalized the legendary street with his song “The Zoo.” And the iconic riff of Rudolf Schenker’s composition became one of the band’s most recognizable musical trademarks, cementing their place in the hard rock genre with the 1980 album “Animal Magnetism”.

Thus, “The Zoo” was also a must-have at the Scorpions’ now legendary stadium concert in their hometown of Hanover in July 2025 in front of 45,000 enthusiastic fans – and became one of the striking highlights on the live recording of “Coming Home”, which the band’s label will release on December 5th.

The single will be released on November 7th as a teaser for the album “Coming Home Live,” which will be released in December. Digital pre-orders also begin on November 7th.

60 years of Scorpions in numbers, data, facts:

· Over 120 million records sold.

· At the first Rock in Rio festival, the band played in front of 1.3 million fans.

· 10 sold-out concerts as one of the first bands from the West in Leningrad and later at the Moscow Music Peace Festival.

· Three consecutive sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in NY.

· Two dozen studio and concert albums, which have received nine gold and four platinum awards in Germany, among other countries.

· The Scorpions played over 5000 concerts worldwide.

· There’s Scorpions whisky, Scorpions beer, Scorpions postage stamps, a Scorpions street in Madrid, and in Los Angeles, October 6th is celebrated as Scorpions Day every year. Their awards are countless, including a World Music Award, an Echo Award, a star on the Hollywood Rock Walk, and induction into the Hall of Heavy Metal. In Brazil, a new species of spider was named after them, and countless children worldwide bear the band members’ names as a tribute.

· Worldwide, 127 precious metal awards were given: 58 platinum, 67 gold, and two silver. Most of the awards came from France (18) and the USA (14).

· The single “Wind of Change” is the best-selling single by a German band. More than 15 million copies have been sold. The song has been streamed over a billion times on Vevo and the same number of times on YouTube – more than any other song by a German band worldwide. It reached number one in the charts in eleven countries and charted in a total of 78 countries.