"Ozzy called asking me to help him out because Randy Rhoads had died. I asked for a private jet so he’d turn me down": Michael Schenker on UFO, Scorpions, and snubbing The Rolling Stones, Ozzy and Thin Lizzy

Michael Schenker studio portrait.

In early 2020, Michael Schenker received an email out-of-the-blue from a stranger, offering to reunite him with a historical artefact long considered lost, the skeleton of a guitar hand-crafted by Schenker as a teenager.

“It’s unbelievable!” Schenker exclaims. “At school, when I was 14, we had a workshop class, and I decided to build a guitar. The body was triangular, so it looks basically like a Flying V. I’d never seen a Flying V at that age, but I must have had a premonition that a guitar looking like that would be important in my life.”