“Ever since I was 15, I have been focusing on pure self-expression,” Michael Schenker, 69, says
MICHAEL SCHENKER PUT together his newest record, My Years with UFO, with two objectives — as a celebration, and as an education.
“It’s the 50th anniversary of my first album with UFO — Phenomenon, in 1974 — and so I wanted to do something special,” Schenker explains to Guitar World. In doing so, he continues, “It was a good opportunity to give newcomers more details and information about the band, who the songs were written by and what this music is. Because we pass everything to the next generation.”
To be sure, UFO’s music has been lauded and absorbed by several generations since Schenker’s original run with the British band (prior to joining, the German-born Schenker had been playing with his older brother, Rudolf, in the original version of the Scorpions). Their clutch of albums together in the Seventies, which includes classics like the aforementioned , 1975’s and 1977’s , as well as the seminal 1979 live document, , constitutes