Uli Jon Roth had already written several pieces for Electric Sun during his late tenure with the Scorpions. The 1978 tour of Japan, which consequently led to the release of “Tokyo Tapes”, was Uli’s official good-bye from the band. But long before this he had already decided that it was time for him to move on and he had told the band wanted to leave.

One of the first steps for Uli was to look for a drummer in London.
It was a strange coincidence that Uli’s manager placed an advert in Melody Maker the very
same week that Scorpions were advertising for a guitarist in July. The adverts were almost
identical in size and appeared side by side in the same issue unbeknown to either party.