Song · Scorpions
“Speedy's Coming” by Scorpions
From the album Fly to the Rainbow (1974)
“Speedy's Coming” by Scorpions appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1974 on the album Fly to the Rainbow. Its best result is #788 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,025 hard rock song of all time.
"Speedy's Coming" pairs Rudolf Schenker's music with Klaus Meine's words, and it comes off Fly to the Rainbow, the second Scorpions album, which RCA released in November 1974 with Frank Bornemann producing.
The band on it had been rebuilt from the wreckage. Opening for UFO on the Lonesome Crow tour cost the Scorpions their lead guitarist, Michael Schenker, who took UFO up on a job offer, and the group briefly fell apart before Rudolf Schenker and Meine joined forces with a band called Dawn Road and kept the Scorpions name. So it's Uli Jon Roth and Schenker on electric guitars, Francis Buchholz on bass and Jürgen Rosenthal on drums (the first record for Roth and Buchholz, the only one for Rosenthal), with Achim Kirschning adding organ, Mellotron and synthesizer. Meine sings lead, with Roth, Buchholz and Schenker singing behind him.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 788 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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