About Francis Buchholz
Francis Buchholz was a German musician best known as the bass guitarist of the German rock band Scorpions from 1973 until 1992, a group that was successful internationally; his bass riffs for hits such as "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and "Wind of Change" were regarded as iconic. After leaving Scorpions, he was a member of Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock, among others. Buchholz's first recording with the Scorpions was 1974's Fly to the Rainbow, and he stayed as a band member for 18 years, recording 12 albums during the band's most commercially successful period. Eventually they and the two members who first formed Scorpions, singer Klaus Meine and guitarist Rudolf Schenker, merged into a new incarnation of the Scorpions in 1973, with Buchholz on bass.
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