Legendary Rock Songs: WIND OF CHANGE: SCORPIONS.

Hello my people I hope you are super well, well today I present this edition of a song that is an icon of music in the world, and is an anthem for world peace, a great song of this legendary band. Enjoy the report.

Theme:WIND OF CHANGE.
Disc:Crazy World.
Year:1990.

In a poll conducted by the BBC in 2002, “Wind of change” was chosen as the favorite song of the European public. Maybe because of its own musical beauty or maybe because of its meaning, the truth is that the Scorpions' ballad is one of the best known songs not only of the German band, but of hard rock in general. “Wind of change” was inspired by the celebration of the famous Moscow Peace Festival at the Moscow Red Square on August 12, 1989.

In the midst of Perestroika, the Soviet authorities allowed the celebration of a macro rock event as a symptom of openness in their policy. In front of 260,000 enthusiastic Russian fans, the Scorpions (who had already been the first hard rock band to play in Russia shortly before) unloaded their material together with other renowned bands such as Cinderella, Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, Skid Row and the locals Gorky Park (the name of the Moscow park mentioned in the song).

The emotional moment and the perception that the “winds of change” were indeed blowing in Russia led Klaus Meine, lead singer of the Scorps, to write “Wind of change”. The year of its release, 1990, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the song became a hymn to reconciliation in Germany and the fall of the Iron Curtain. On July 21st of that same year, “The Wall” of “Pink Floyd” was staged by its maximum ideologist, Roger Waters, with a multitudinous concert in the Berlin Potsdamer Platz on the occasion of the fall of the wall to which the Scorpions themselves were invited along with other artists such as Van Morrison, Bryan Adams, Sinead O' Connor, Cyndy Lauper, Paul Carrack, Joni Mitchell and members of The Band among others.

“Wind of change”, did not take long to spread its message of peace all over the world, reaching number one in the charts of eleven countries. The band even recorded the song, originally composed in English, in Spanish and Russian, and the song became so important that on December 14, 1991, the Russian president, Mikhail Gorbachev, invited the Scorpions to the Kremlin to talk to the band in an unprecedented act. The Scorpions were called back to unload their hymn to peace at the Brandenburg Gate on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the German reunification, and they did it accompanied by a cellist, which perhaps gave them the idea to record with the Berlin Philharmonic the album “Moment Of Glory” (2000), where they did not miss the obligatory interpretation of the song, which was also transformed to the acoustic format in the album of such characteristics, “Acoustica”, which they recorded live at the Convento Do Beato in Lisbon (Portugal) in 2001.

“Wind Of Change” was the trigger for Scorpions, who had already recorded other famous slow songs like “Still Loving You”, to be known as the ballad band, a stigma that perhaps has overshadowed their later career, pigeonholing them in a certain sense and sadly causing the mass public not to discover many of their abundant rock anthems.

Thank you for reading my people, and I hope you like this great report and that you enjoy this incredible song. Blessings.