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- You gave him the world, and he gave you his music in return.
- Though the strings have gone silent, his soul remains in every note he played and in every life he touched.” Related Stories Obituaries 2026 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries Obituaries Bob Weir Dies: Grateful Dead Founding Member Was 78 Born on February 19, 1954, in what was then West Germany, Buchholz was a teenager when he joined German hard rock band’s The Scorpions in 1973 and would play with the group’s longest-running and most successful lineup through 1992, working the bass alongside singer Klaus Meine, guitarists Rudolf Schenker and Matthias Jabs and drummer Herman Rarebell.
- The group released four albums with Buccholz for RCA Records from 1974-77 that failed to gain commercial traction, but the fifth put them on the international map.
- After Scorpions changed labels — to Harvest Records in Europe and Mercury in North America — Lovedrive arrived in early 1979 and began to get airplay in the group’s homeland.
- Sporting a controversial, attention-getting jacket, the LP was the first with Jabs and defined the sound that would make the band international stars.
