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When a band reaches fifty years in one form or another, the listener could quite rightly expect for Time to get the better of them. Time though can be fickle, it can easily be as nice to the passing of the seconds and hours as it can be cruel and waywardly malicious to the minutes and days that fall in between. As the time fritters past, it could easily subject you to ridicule and the rigours of slowing down, the steam not just running low, but barely existent, in your 20s and 30s and yet elevate you to a position of power and full of intrigue, deep fascination and adoration in your 40s and 50s. Such is the arrangement and accord time seems to have struck with the Scorpions and their new album, Return To Forever.