# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herman-rarebell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:40:13.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herman-rarebell"
name: "Herman Rarebell"
slug: "herman-rarebell"
description: "Hermann Erbel, known professionally as Herman Rarebell, is a German musician, best known as the drummer for the hard rock band Scorpions from 1977 to 1996, during which time he played on eight studio albums. Aside from playing drums, Rarebell wrote or co-wrote several songs for the group such as \"Another Piece of Meat\", \"Falling in Love\" and \"Passion Rules the Game\". He wrote the lyrics for some of the band's most well known songs such as \"Rock You Like a Hurricane\", \"Blackout\", \"Make It Real\", \"Arizona\", \"Bad Boys Running Wild\" and \"Tease Me Please Me\"."
tagline: "German drummer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herman_Rarebell.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
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birthDate: "1948-11-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "herman.rarebell.1"
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    url:       "http://www.hermanrarebell.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump