Before they retire, they wanted to release a bonus track album from leftovers from seventies and eighties just for the fans.

While searching for the tape, Schenker found an old ledger in which his mother enumerated the loans that his father provided to him, so he could buy all the equipment and establish the band.

So the band went again into the listening process of bonus track material that they had already prepared and see if they could improve something, like choruses and riffs.

After that, they re-recorded the old stuff and started to write new songs with the producers Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen.

[1] On 16 August 2014 Scorpions released through their social media a promotional picture with which they announced 50th Anniversary Tour and new studio album for 2015.

The lights used consist of 36 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s, 8 Sharpy Wash 330s, 10 Mythos units and 20 Stormy CCs.

Stage also features flying platform with drum kit with the Sharpy Wash lights placed underneath.

[10][11][12][13][14] During the concert in Barclays Center In Brooklyn on 12 September 2015, 12-year old guitarist Brandon Niederauer joined the band on stage to play guitar on song "No One Like You".

Filmed in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Las Vegas, documentary takes a look at the group's impressive longevity and continued popularity in the United States.

[17] On 21 March 2016, 30 minutes into the concert at Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, Klaus Meine complained about sore throat.

[18] Around that time, James Kottak had some personal issues and he went to Eric Claptons's Crossroads Centre in Antigua for one month rehab treatment.

They said that they will call Mikkey Dee to replace him as a drummer on the upcoming tour dates and Kottak agreed on that.

Since the next batch of concerts was in South America in September 2016, all the band's sound equipment and instruments were transporting there at that time.

[20] Jason MacNeil from Toronto Sun said about the concert in Molson Canadian Amphitheatre on 18 September 2015 that "it seems the band is running on fumes".

[10] Mark LePage from Montreal Gazette said about the concert in Bell Centre on 19 September 2015 that "At 67, Meine could easily have passed for a decade younger in both appearance and voice.

Hell, the whole band was in fighting trim, from drummer James Kottak to guitarists Matthias Jabs and Rudolf Schenker.

[11] Alan Cox from Denver Post said about the concert in Greenwood Village on 29 September 2015 that "It was symbolic of how, despite the many years of playing, the band is still out on the road and still giving their fans what they want–to be rocked like a hurricane".

[12] Raymond Ahner from National Rock Review gave positive review about concert SAP Center at San Jose on 1 October 2015 stating that "it was clear that even after fifty years, the Scorpions still know what it takes to deliver a big arena rock show".