Despite announcing their retirement last week, aging German rockers, The Scorpions, have found that a band of their world-renown simply can't quit and expect to live out their golden years with a fishing pole and a cooler of off-brand beer.

The Scorpions song "Winds of Change" served as the tear-jerking backdrop for the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and amazingly, many Germans feel they haven't heard that old chestnut enough. To that end, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would be signing an emergency measure to press the band back on the road as a form of national service.

She wasn't yet sure when the band might be released from their national obligation, but was quick to point out that there was also the matter of a binding umbrella contract with the dark lord, Beezlebub, that allowed the band to reach the heights of stardom in the first place.

Photo used under CC license from Tim Yates