Scorpions are back on the Las Vegas Strip, performing all month long at Planet Hollywood as the German rock band's Coming Home to Las Vegas residency continues a sold-out 60th-anniversary tour that began in 2025. Remaining performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. on September 23, 25, 27, and 29 and October 1 and 3, with tickets starting at $105.65 plus tax and fee.
The run marks the band's fourth Las Vegas residency since 2022, following stints in 2024 and 2025, as detailed by Las Vegas Magazine. Hoodline previously covered the band's five-show 60th-anniversary Vegas run, which launched the milestone celebration at PH Live before it extended into a broader global tour.
Rudolf Schenker formed Scorpions in 1965 and remains the only original member still in the band, according to the same Las Vegas Magazine report. Klaus Meine joined as lead singer four years later, and the current lineup — Meine, Schenker, guitarist Matthias Jabs, bassist Paweł Mąciwoda, and drummer Mikkey Dee — has stayed consistent since Mąciwoda and Dee both joined in 2016.
A Career Spanning Prog Rock to Hard Rock Anthems
Scorpions began as a progressive rock act, releasing their debut album, Lonesome Crow, before shifting toward hard rock during the 1970s and 1980s, the outlet reports. That debut received a remix in early 2026. Over six decades the band has released 19 studio albums, 20 compilation albums, and 54 singles, building a catalog that culminated commercially in 1984's Love at First Sting, which included Rock You Like a Hurricane, Still Loving You, and Big City Nights and helped push earlier records Lovedrive and Animal Magnetism to gold and platinum status.
Rock You Like a Hurricane alone has been covered by more than 150 artists and bands, per Las Vegas Magazine's reporting. The band's commercial run was built in part on the work of bassist Francis Buchholz, who passed away earlier in 2026 after playing on Scorpions albums from 1974's Fly to the Rainbow through 1990's Crazy World before leaving the group in 1992. He was 71 and had been battling cancer, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Wind of Change and a Cold War Legacy
No Scorpions story is complete without Wind of Change, the ballad that became an anthem for political change and was a hit for the band in 1989 and 1990. Scorpions met former USSR party leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Kremlin in 1991, a meeting tied to the same era that produced the song, as Las Vegas Magazine notes. The track's roots trace to the band's 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival appearance, one of the first times a Western hard rock act performed in the Soviet Union, according to Collider.
The song's reach has only grown in the streaming era. Wind of Change passed one billion YouTube views in February 2023 and crossed one billion individual Spotify streams in late 2025, according to a report cited by Louder Sound. The band's overall catalog has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide and earned over 50 gold and platinum certifications across its career.
Buckcherry Opens, Biopic Looms
American rock group Buckcherry is the exclusive opening act for every performance of the Coming Home to Las Vegas residency, a role it also filled during the band's 2025 Vegas dates, according to Blabbermouth.net. The eight-date run at PH Live opened September 17 and runs through October 3, with additional early shows on September 19 and 22, per Consequence.
PH Live itself carries its own Strip history: the venue first opened in 1976 as the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts and has since operated under names including The AXIS, Zappos Theater, and Bakkt Theater, per Wikipedia. It holds a total capacity of 7,000 seats, typically configured to roughly 4,600 for concert residencies like this one.
Beyond the stage, Scorpions' story is heading to film. Production began in mid-2025 on Wind of Change, an official biopic from ESX Entertainment and FOX Entertainment Studios starring Alexander Dreymon as Rudolf Schenker and Dominic West as longtime band manager Doc McGhee, chronicling the group's origins in post-WWII Germany through its Cold War-era breakthrough, according to FOXFLASH. Between the film, the streaming milestones, and a fourth Vegas residency in five years, Scorpions are leaning into their 1980s legacy even as they keep adding new chapters to it.
