“You think back over what you have done and you drinka bottle of red wine and get out all the old albums and listen tothem until four o’clock in the morning”: Ex-Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies aged 71

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Francis Buchholz, the former Scorpions bassist who played on all of the band’s classic albums, died on 22 January 2026 at the age of 71.

Buchholz, a native of Hanover, joined the Scorpions in 1973 at the same time as lead guitarist Uli Jon Roth. The two men had previous played together in the band Dawn.