Scorpions are a great German Band who have been going since the 1970s. Lead singer is Klaus Meine. Wind of change was released just at the end of the Cold War as the Berlin Wall fell. Their rabbit hole is immense. Great songs like Send Me An Angel, No One Like You, Rock You Like a Hurricane, Big City Nights, Still Loving You, the instrumental song Coast to Coast, Blackout. Those are just barely scratching the surface.
This song has a special place in many peoples hearts that experienced the history of the end of the Soviet Union. Seeing the wall in Berlin fall, watching countries break free of the communist regime, feeling a hope for the future. Honestly this was a amazing time (1989 - 1991) and this song summed up alot of it.
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Context: The Scorpions are a German band. The Berlin Wall had divided East Germany & West Germany, and throughout the Cold War the Soviet Union had stood poised to drive their army through West Germany and take control of Western Europe. This song is about the easing of tensions with the Soviet Union and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, reuniting East and West Germany and removing the constant threat of (possibly nuclear) war. The Moskva River and Gorky Park are in Moscow, the Russian capital. Klaus Meine, the Scorpions’ lead singer, wrote the song after a visit to the Soviet Union during the period of “perestroika”, when the Gorbachev regime was restructuring the economy and loosening relations with the West (there’s a photo of Gorbachev meeting the Pope in the video). The montage seems to combine scenes of the Cold War with scenes from the fall of the Berlin Wall. 1990, when this song was released, was an extremely hopeful time. The constant threat of World War III was coming to an end, and people looked forward to an era of peace. Too bad it didn’t last. The World Trade Center came down eleven years later.
This song is more like an event. I've talked with several people and they say that they not only remember when they first heard it, but also where they were when they heard it. I recon that it is so because it will forever be linked to such a momentous event in history.
The first time I heard it, I was on a campsite in the Netherlands, surrounded by groups of young Germans. I had never heard it before, but they had it on contact repeat, and by the end of the weekend I knew it word for word.
I remember it well. I had just gotten started in college when the Wall fell. Many people who grew up during the Cold War remembered this song, and everything it was about...like it was yesterday.
I was serving as a volunteer Christian missionary in Northern France when this song came out. I was in a small grocery store, in a French naval city called Brest ... when "Winds of Change" came on over the speakers --- I remember stopping what I was doing and just soaking up the very palpable vibe inherent to this song.
It didn't last. Meanwhile the Chinese government killed who knows how many people in Tiananmen Square who just wanted freedom and Saddam invaded Iraq which opened up a new can of worms which we are still dealing with. As the old saying goes the more things change the more they stay the same.
I will never get how anyone over 30 could be ignorant of this song. Not a knock on you just honest surprise. Was such a fundamental song during its time during one of the most memorable times in history.
This song makes me cry every time. We were all so hopeful and free then. *Also, Love at First Sting is my absolute favorite album cover if all time. So sexy!! 😄
Klaus Meine said in an interview that the time 1988/1989 in the Soviet Union was characterized by the mood that the Cold War was coming to an end, the music was the unifying factor between the peoples.[10] The memories of this time are also transported in the music video for the song.[11] Meine was inspired by his participation in the Moscow Music Peace Festival on August 13, 1989, at Lenin Stadium, where the Scorpions performed in front of about 300,000 fans < Source Wikipedia
Amazing track, always loved this one. I recall watching the Berlin Wall along with millions of other's on live TV being dismantled by whatever people had on hand, families separated decade's reuniting and the sense of hope felt and shared across the world. Powerful stuff, powerful song. If you're looking to dive into more Scorpions checkout Still Loving You.
they got the inspiration for this song. when they as germans were playing to a crowd of 100,000 russians. and they said this was the moment that change is possible. great pro peace song.
When this was first released it was at the same time as fall of the Berlin Wall which had been built up after WW2 and was considered a huge part of the end of the Cold War. Since the Scorpions are a German band this was their back door.
I've been to over 100 concerts since '84, and the Scorpions sounded as true to their albums as you could get. Almost perfect. When Blackout came out, I was 16, and my dad made me read aloud the lyrics to Blackout. Then he asked, if I thought a 16 year old should be listening to a song about getting so drunk you blackout. I said, I don't care what it's about it sounds awesome! He was right, but so was I. The Scorpions heaviest song is China White on side 2 of Blackout. Arizona is great song too. Nobody will react to either of those songs, but... You can check 'em out, on your own, it's worth it.
The BERLIN WALL coming down was a big change . My niece from BERLIN came for a visit soon after it came down and brought each of us a piece of the wall. You are right about the whistle. That is a talent, to whistle the song as he played the guitar can't be easy
My earliest memory is sitting with my family watching the moon landing back in 1969, I was 2 years old. It was an event so impactful(and my family made a big deal out of it), but this song always reminds me of that. It was a "Wind of change" that was blowing, even if I wasn't nearly old enough to know it yet. A few decades prior to landing on the moon, the world was at war, and the fate of humanity hung in the balance. Technology grew by leaps and bounds during the decades I grew up in. I bore witness to history being made time and time again. This song so perfectly sums up those experiences. My family came to the US from Germany, before even World War I, and some fought and died in World War II. I grew up with the knowledge that I should be proud of my German heritage, with the exception of the Nazi era. Germany was split in two after the war, and we never thought we'd see it reunite. But I did. I saw the Berlin Wall come down, I saw Germany become one, and under a Democratic government. I could openly be proud of my heritage, as the wounds of "The War" were finally healed(but never to be forgotten).
Scorpions are a band from Germany (West Germany during the cold war). This song is about coming together, inspired by the coming end to the cold war and with hope to no longer be under the shadow of the threat of total nuclear annihilation between two superpowers and the shockwave of this change throughout the world. Images and displays of bravery standing up against Tyranny and control. Such an awesome and powerful message for the time, when we all wanted Hope in a new world to reign! So glad I found your channel man; you too are an inspiration in these crazy times.
This is about when the Berlin wall came down, they were so inspired by this & wrote this song for it. The whistle really pulls you in makes me want to cry ,my late husband used to whistle that all the time. It's hard to forget that sound makes your heart just flop with all the terrible things going on now.
This song is about the end of The Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and, imo, a more hopeful time when those of us who lived it thought that the world was finally on it's way to healing and peace. I was in my first year at West Point when this song came out. I hoped that my profession would become redundant. It did not I'm sad to say.
Thank you for your service David. The feeling of hope that the world was becoming a better place during this time was definitely high! I'm sorry, like you say, that we as a people quickly forgot that feeling... so thank you again for your service in trying to preserve that hope.
My grandparents on my father's side came here to the USA from Germany after the fall of the wall. This song always reminds me of the stories they told me of hardships they endured and the courage it took to overcome them. I miss you Opa and Oma 💔
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. In 1989, Deconstruction of the wall began! I was in High School at the time, when the Wall came down it was one of those days in World 🌎 History you’re going to remember! A song of Change and Togetherness! 1989 “The Wall Came Down!” I still remember the News Broadcaster saying that for the first time! ✌️🇨🇦
The song is actually about how things changed politically in Russia in the late 80s, prior to the Wall being torn down. One of the greatest bands ever, just behind Iron Maiden like everyone else. Enjoy!!!
I'll never forget being mesmerized by what I was seeing on MTV news as the first pieces of rubble came bouncing down the wall , half the world wept tears of joy together !
The very first time I heard this was while watching a Filipino band in Singapore. I had been at sea so didn't get to hear it before that. LOVE Scorpions. Favorite song from them.
Scorpions are my favorite band and have been since I first saw them in 1988… I first heard this song in 1991, but I really fell in love with it in 1992 when I participated in a student exchange from my school in Baltimore and a school in Kiev, Ukraine. I spent a month in Russia and Ukraine, and this song became burned in my brain from that trip, which is the time where I fell in love with both music and history. I am now a history teacher in Ward 8 for DCPS at Ballou HS, and I usually use this song in my Cold War lesson.
This song, every time I hear this song, I remember her, and I remember us. I was drinking alone in a dark, smoky rock bar in West Germany. The year was 1990. I was barely 19 years old, the Berlin Wall had been down for just a year, our world was changing, and so was mine; forever. She walked in. Blonde hair in the black light. She looked lost, as if walking in was a mistake, as if she almost didn’t expect to find a bar behind the door. She was looking for something. And so was I. She passed my corner table as she wove her way to the restroom. I caught her glance once, and then again at me as she passed. Her lips never smiled, but her eyes told me otherwise. My God… she was beautiful. She was the kind of beautiful that a girl doesn’t even know that she is, and that just made her even more-so. I wasn’t letting this go. As she came back towards my table, I stood up, smiled, and asked her if she’d like to sit with me. “Thank you, but I need to be alone tonight” was her reply. I leaned in to her ear. She pulled her hair back as if to encourage whatever it was that I had to say. I almost whispered, purposely, to cause her to lean in closer, “I need to be alone tonight as well, so we might as well be alone together”. I finally saw the smile that matched her eyes. She sat down, and I sat down beside her. “Jason”, I offered. “Melanie”, a soft angel responded. I was still swirling from the smell of her hair from just moments ago. Just then, one of the waitresses that knew me by name stopped at our table. She asked Melanie if she’d like a drink, and Melanie looked at me. “Two Jack and Cokes, tall glasses, no straws, crushed ice please”, was my answer. Melanie smiled; I thought I might be in trouble. I hoped I was. The waitress looked at Melanie, Melanie smiled again and said “please”. After very little small talk, the conversations got deeper. Almost as deep as I was into her eyes by that point. I could see her soul, and it was just as beautiful as her face. What those conversations were, are forever for just me and her. Those are just ours. Something we had that the world never will. So don’t ask. Fast-forward several hours, the bar is getting ready to close. I knew the lights would be coming on soon, and I didn’t want this to end. And then this song… this song comes on. Melanie now has her head on my shoulder, the table is sticky with several empty glasses, just melting ice remaining, reminding us both that all things are finite, and that beauty, love, and life is about now, and it is all forever fading away. This song. You need to know what it is about for context. Once you understand that, you’ll better appreciate a teenage American soldier, and an teenage girl that grew up in east Germany holding on to each other. In the middle of this song, Melanie raised her head from my shoulder, looked into my eyes, and said, “I don’t like this world, I want you to take me away”. She kept staring into me, waiting for the answer. I took her by the hand as I stood up, she then stood up and faced me. “Let’s go”, was my answer. She smiled again and hugged me tightly; man… I can still smell her hair as I write this. It was the night before a 4-day weekend, I had a pocket full of German and American cash; God had planned this all out very well. We spent the next 4 days traveling around Germany together. We played in a fountain with children, we danced in the streets, we helped a little girl find her mother, we earned a fine dinner by helping a shopkeeper repair his door, we laughed, we talked, we held hands in silence for hours. For the first time in my young life I saw true beauty in this world. All reflected in her eyes. We went to museums, and we went to raves. We went to beer festivals, and we went to a movie. We were surrounded by millions of people one moment, and in the next we were alone together, making love high atop an old abandoned tower in a rainstorm. That thunder, that lightning, and that hard rain on that tin roof will never be forgotten. And then, the last day came. The guesthouse was quiet that morning. We filled our bags with things we didn’t need, in preparing to leave what we did. The train ride to her little town was a beautiful one. She pointed out things along the way from her childhood. Truth be known, I was staring more at her beautiful face reflecting from the window. There’s that smile to match those eyes. There’s the smell of her hair. The train slowed to a stop. We were there. I cannot remember the name of the town now. But, here 30 years later, I still remember that goodbye. She turned to me with that smile. She kissed me as I still to this day have never been kissed again. But then it ended. Like the melting ice in those glasses a few nights ago. She now had a tear in her eye. She softly said, “please, never forget me”. “I’ll sooner forget my next breath” was my reply. I walked her to the door of the train. She turned one last time, slowly put her little arms around me, and whispered something in German that I’ll never know, except for one of the words; “Liebe”, which I know means “love”. One last kiss, then she turned and stepped onto the platform. I watched her walking away, not looking back. Dear God I wanted her to look back. I returned to my seat. I’d never felt so alone in all my life. The train shuddered and began to move. I looked out the window, but now only seeing my lone reflection in the glass. Then I saw her leaning against the wall of the station. She was looking directly at me, watching me go; wiping away her tears. We’d forgotten to tell our souls to also say goodbye. The train continued on. The reflection in the glass stayed solitary, and blurred by tears. From the pain in my stomach and chest, I’d say that my heart was ripped out and left on that train station platform with her 30 years ago. Writing this made me smile again, and just now writing the ending made me cry again. So, no Melanie, I’ll never forget you. That promise has been kept. I love you too.
I am 71 yrs old and I will never forget 9th of November 1989. I woke my son up at 4am (eastern time) to show him all the East and West Germans celebrating as one free people. People were dancing and breaking chunks of the wall, heavy machinery was pulling big sections down it was glorious. Then the greatest thing ever to happen, happened in December 26th 1991, Communism fell and so did the Soviet Union. For the first time those people tasted freedom. You wanna see a killer concert? Look up Pantera “Domination” Live From Moscow.
Thank you, my friend. You got me flashing back to 1986/87. This song became an anthem for the fall of the Berlin Wall and the winding down of communist Russia/ the Eastern Block at the end of the 80"s.
Commemorating a huge milestone….such an epic song! I remember Ronald Reagan gave a speech saying “Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall!” I grew up in the 60s & 70s, & the Cold War was a very real backdrop to our lives then. Nuclear arms race was getting out of control, Russia was a very real threat. But with the deployment of Star Wars surveillance system & Russia collapsing under its own economic failures, food shortages etc, the first glimmer of hope came with the Peaceful overtures of Mikhail Gorbachev & the dismantling of the Berlin Wall which allowed East & West Germans to reunite after so many decades of enforced separation.
I still remember watching the television in awe as the Berlin Wall was torn down and the East and West united. I was in junior high. It was the first time I realized that not everyone lived the same as everyone in the USA. More than 30 years later we invited a German foreign exchange student to stay with our family. His dad is my age and lived behind the wall. It is interesting to hear the perspective from his dad and grandparents of living in East Berlin. Definitely makes me grateful to live in the USA.
I was stationed in Elangen, Germany when this all happened. Beautiful town and great people. Some of the older German folks wanted US troops out and were quite vocal about it. I get it and hope they're doing well as the world moves on. The folks I met who got out of East Berlin were really excited and great to interact with.
Klaus is the lead singers name. They are a German band in sing in German in English. I was fortunate enough to be in the military when the Berlin wall came down, I saw them on the wall, along with many other bands, including Pink Floyd, which is ironic, because Pink Floyd‘s biggest album was, “the wall“. The song is about all the changes after the Cold War.
As a German band they really sang to the closing of the Cold War era, spoke to that reality, with Wind of Change. Most people were struggling to believe there could ever be peace, and the Scorpions stepped up and helped Pied Piper the world away from the brink. (Shout out to Sting on that account, too. Pink Floyd played, The Wall, literally on the Wall in Berlin, tore down part of it as the finale in the stage show.)
The Scorpions r from Germany. They were the first German rock band to break big internationally in 1978-'79 singing English songs. Scorpions' lead singer Klaus Meine (who sang all the backing vocals here) wrote 'Wind of change' in 1990 after the Scorpions played communist Russia in 1988 for the first time... a country that had once banned the Beatles & rock music during the cold war. They returned to play Moscow Peace festival in 1989 to a stadium audience and saw the progress in Europe at the time embracing Western music,which was a huge deal. Klaus even gave a shout out to an opening band at those shows called Gorky Park in his lyrics... The context of a German band like the Scorpions becoming popular in Russia was a feat, given just 5 decades ago in the 1940's, German nazis invaded Russia and slaughtered 27 million Russians during WW II... Russians later invaded Berlin and ended the war in Europe. Then the communists and the Allied forces led by USA carved Germany into East and West... East being communist, West being liberal democracy. Members of the Scorpions grew up in the West (Rammstein were born in the East) and heard about what their nazi grandparents' generation did... Klaus and guitarist Rudolf Schenker who founded the Scorpions did not in any way support those past atrocities... they grew up loving English and American rock n roll music in the 1960's. Scorpions released albums thru the 70's but couldn't travel beyond Europe. That changed in 1978 when they broke big in Japan and toured there for the first time... then they came to America in 1979 and had a platinum selling record in the US by 1981. By 1988, the Scorpions were global superstars when they played sold out concerts in Russia... To see their music help heal the past wounds between their countries and winning over Russian fans gave a huge appreciation for the power of music to bring people together. When the 'Wind of change' single was released in 1990, East and West Germany finally united as one country after 40+ years of separation, as the Berlin wall came down. It was another great moment for the members of the Scorpions.
Omg this still makes me emotional!! The Berlin wall fell, the end of the Cold War!!! I remember watching the Berlin Wall falling and jumping up and down, crying, clapping and feeling so much happiness for all the people who were freed because of it!!! The Scorpions were from Germany, so they lived it, while we in America watched it on TV.
These guys are a German Rock Band that was very popular in the 1980's they are from West Germany. The singer for many years now has lived in California with his wife and son Christen !!! Love this video and this song, it was about the Berlin wall being torn down and the East Berliners running to West Berlin, and Germany was reunited one country again, I remember on the television that West Germany was running out of everything in all their stores because Eastern European really wanted to work and buy Western clothes, Electronics, anything you could imagine. I had a very good friend that was in Germany in the 1970s and she told me that Germans could tell where you were from by just the kind of clothes you had on and she had several German women walk up to her and ask her how much money she would take for her blue jeans but, she never sold her Levi's to them, at that time Germany was still 2 countries and even the West German people longed to have the things The United States had and I'm sure items the English were able to get. One of my cousins was over in Germany when the Berlin Wall was torn down her Husband was serving in the U.S. Army and was stationed there when in the late 1980's the Cold War came to its end at last !!!
The word "Moskva" is the transliteration of the word "Moscow" . There is also a river in Russia with the same name and is why the songs says to follow the Moskva (river) down to Gorky Park. Gorky Park is a literal park in Russia and kind of like our NYC, Central Park and is where the cold war spies of Russia and the US often met. Its about the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war.
"Wind of Change" was a 1991 song. It was about the Berlin Wall falling. It was the end of the cold war. Europe was finally able to connect to each other. The Scorpions are a French band. It was a great time, full of hope. .... it never could end like we all thought it would. But, back then, man there was hope! I'm partial to "Still Loving You" as another song they sing.
The text celebrates the political changes that took place in Europe towards the end of the 1980s. He is committed to East-West understanding and thus hit the nerve of the times. It became an anthem of renewal in the Soviet Union. Klaus Meine said in an interview that the period 1988/1989 in the Soviet Union was shaped by the mood that the Cold War was coming to an end, that music was what connects peoples. The memories of that time are also conveyed in the music video for the song. Greetings from Germany 🙏
This song really hits deep for those of us growing up in the 60’s and 70’s. I remember doing nuclear war protection drills. They basically included you rolling into a ball underneath your desk. Thinking back and realizing how absurd it probably was but at the time the anxiety was real. Before this song I was stationed in Germany. Russia was threatening to invade because of a kid flying into red square and Russia thinking the west was testing their radar. I remember being on the border looking across at thousands of Russian troops. A priest had come by to offer prayer and being prepared for the afterlife. If war broke out we probably had 10 minutes to live. But then the events with Reagan and Gorbachev and the Berlin Wall that this song is using as the symbol of freedom and it eased that anxiety. The people growing up in the 80’s didn’t feel that so they lucked out. Strange world but wonderful how a song can bring back these great memories
They wrote this song after being (one of) the first western act(s) to be allowed to play on the Soviet Union. It is about the feeling of change that was going on in Moscow back then. And when the Wall was falling I remember my elementary school teacher saying that we should remember this moment because it would end up in the history books and we were living in that time...
The man climbing on the tank, no one knows his name but everyone who saw what he did knows he is a hero. He stood in front of a column of tanks forcing them to stop. While the column eventually resumed their trek to Tiananmen Square for a moment a HERO stood taller and stronger than any army. My heart goes out to those brave souls who died standing up for freedom in China. May your dream one day come true.
The Scorpions r a rock band formed in Hanover, West Germany in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker, who wanted to play rock n roll music from America and the West. He met lead singer Klaus Meine and later offered him to sing for the Scorpions by 1970. Rudolf's younger brother Michael Schenker joined on lead guitar at age 16, having played in Klaus' previous band. Scorpions' first album 'Lonesome crow' in 1972 was a mix of jazz, psychedelic rock and Hendrix-style guitars... the band broke up in 1973 after Michael Schenker left to join British rockers U.F. O. Klaus & Rudolf opted to join forces w/ lead guitarist Ulrich Roth (now Uli Jon Roth) and kept the Scorpions name for the new line-up w/ Francis Buccholz joining on bass... they released 4 studio albums w/ Roth before he quit in 1978, just as drummer Herman Rarebell (drums) joined... Michael Schenker rejoined briefly, but quit soon after. Matthias Jabs joined on lead guitar in 1979 as their album 'Lovedrive' went gold in the US after touring America for the first time. Scorpions released a string of platinum records thru the 80's and became global superstars going into 1990 w/ the album 'Crazy world'... However, the 90's proved difficult as their popularity fell in the new decade. Bassist Francis Buccholz quit the band in 1992... drummer Herman Rarebell left in 1995. The Scorpions kept recording & touring past 2000 and finally began to see newer fans by 2004... bassist Pawel Maciwoda joined in '04... drummer James Kottak played in the band from 1996 til 2015. Mikkey Dee of Motorhead joined on drums in 2016 w/ Klaus (vocals), Rudolf (guitar) & Matthias (lead guitar) ... they have a new album 'Rock believer' coming out in 2022, I believe 😁🔥🔥🔥🤘
Scorpions have a lot of arena rock hits - 'Big city nights' ... 'No one like you'... 'Lovedrive' ... 'Rock you like a hurricane' ... 'Tease me please me' ... 'No pain no gain' ... 'Hour 1'... 'The Zoo' ⚡🔥🔥🔥🤘 Their ballads for the ladies were huge singles - 'Holiday' ... 'Still loving you' ... 'Send me an angel' ... 'Under the same sun' ... 'When the smoke is going down' ... 'Woman' ... 'When you came into my life'... 'Believe in love' ... 'In trance'... 🔥
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the ideological barriers between Soviet Union and capitalist west were showing signs of possible hope, through love, such a powerful force for peace equality but also dangerous.. loved this song even had it as one of the three songs for first dance at wife and my wedding reception in a damn Tudor castle..
At the beginning of the video is of the different wars that involved Germany. This song is about the fall of the Berlin Wall! Ronald Reagan said take it down and it happened. We watched history a country divided by a wall that if you tried to cross you got SHOT! No joke! Klaus Meine is the lead singer, he stands like 5'1but his voice is 10foot tall!! Seeing them in concert was such a wonderful time!!
I hadn’t heard of this song until about 5 months ago, but I came across a podcast titled the same name as the song and it’s very interesting. I definitely recommend giving that podcast a listen because it explains a lot of the mystique around the origins of the song.
Im sixty five and lived through the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This song is about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany! It was also a moment of pride for Americans seeing something beautiful happening due to our support for West Germany. People have forgotten about the Berlin airlift and how tense those times were! Now we are heading into the same kind of world atmosphere with China. Unfortunately now we have weak leadership that may have already been compromised and seems to lack the belief in our country’s founding principles!
This song is about unity. We need unity more than ever because of the forces in government that are specifically trying to divide us and destroy our republic.
I remember this well, the fall of the berlin wall- these were all the sights from then, and this was literally the soundtrack was an amazing thing to watch. I remember my whole family watching live on tv and the older folks got choked up watching cause they really knew what it meant. its funny to think the future looked alot brighter then too.
This one is very special. Captures a moment in time that will never happen again. Send Me An Angel is equally as awesome. The end of the Cold War and the reunification of Germany. There were families split for decades after the wall went up.
I absolutely ❤ 🦂 SCORPIONS 🦂 ❤ BEEN MY FAVORITE BAND SINCE I WAS 6YEARS OLD. SAW THEM FOR MY FIRST CONCERT At 8yrs old. IM NOW 37 AND STILL LISTEN TO THEM EVERY DAY. SHIT NEVER GETS OLD. THIS IS GREAT BUT HOLD NO COMPARISON TO THEIR 70'S ERA STUFF. ANYTHING FROM 72' TO 79' IS ABSOLUTELY GOLD. THE REST OF THEIR CAREERS IS STILL FABULOUS BUT NOT THE SAME. TRUST ME. I WOULD START WITH🔥🔥🔥 "WE'LL BURN THE SKY " 🔥🔥🔥OR 🔥🔥🔥"FAR AWAY" 🔥🔥🔥OR 🔥🔥🔥"EVENING WIND"🔥🔥🔥 OR 🔥🔥🔥"FLY PEOPLE FLY" 🔥🔥🔥OR anything else from that era. One more off their first album LONESOME CROW I would check out IS 🔥🔥🔥"INHERITANCE"🔥🔥🔥 there is so may more masterpieces. Please do it Van. You won't regret. And the guitar work from then is played by"Uli Jon Roth" one of the best to ever play hands down. You da man Van. Keep up the great content. Thx brother
I've loved this since the first time I heard it. Definitely my favorite from The Scorpions. I think it's about coming together and making changes. The Scorpions are German and show some historic moments in the video.
Scorpions are from Germany and this was around the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Klaus is the singer and you should REALLY check out STILL LOVING YOU by the Scorpions.
It's about the Domino effect starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall and ending with all the Iron Curtain countries becoming Democracies. It Ultimately ended in the fall of the Soviet Union a couple years later. The Wind of Change
I first encountered The Scorpions in the late 1970s, although the band actually was initiated in 1965 by Rudolf Schenker (the rhythm guitarist, and the only member who's always been with the band.) They've changed their musical style and typical genre several times, and often put out songs that aren't typical of their usual work product for the period. This song is one example of that. They had their greatest commercial success starting in the late 1970s through the early 1990s, which is one reason many wrongly think of them as just another 80's band. The other reason is simply that, during that period, they focused on hard rock and heavy metal, including "power ballads." It was during that period that they achieved "supergroup" status. The lead singer is Klaus Meine--definitely one of the greatest rock / metal vocalists. For this performance (and since 1978,) their lead guitarist was Mathias Jabs. The drummer was Herman Rarebell. "Wind Of Change" was put out in November 1990, on their album "Crazy World." The song is about the geopolitical "sea change" that resulted in the fall of the Eastern (Communist) block in general (which was still in progress at the time,) and about the fall of the Berlin Wall (and the therefore-certain reunification of East and West Germany) in particular. It's the "poster song" for that period of geopolitical history, and the events that occurred at the time. That's one reason it has so many views (in addition to being a great song, all by itself.)
Seems we have always felt the need to sing songs of unity, peace and harmony. I’ve been around a while, seen the wars in Northern Ireland, The Gulf War, The Falklands War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the recession of the early 80s…seems sometimes we just never learn. I love songs of unity and peace, but how many of our brothers and sisters, (the human race, we are ALL brothers and sisters) must die along the way until we realise we don’t need to fight anymore? I dunno, but I do remember this song and how beautiful the words were🙏🏻❤️🌎🌏🌍
Germany was divided at the time after WW2 into a Russian (USSR) and Western part with a wall dividing the country. this song was about the moments Germany was finally reunited and the wall was torn down...
Scorpions! Great band! I love Michael Schenker on guitar though he doesn't play the solo here. Been a fan of his since the 70's when he was in UFO. Check him out in live version of "Doctor, Doctor Please" by UFO.
Back in 2015, SCORPIONS said "Wind Of Change" was inspired by the sight of thousands of Russians cheering them on in 1988 - when they became the first hard rock band to play in Russia - and in 1989, at the aforementioned Moscow Music Peace Festival, even though they were a German band.Dec 30, 2020 Great song by a great band! Awesome review 👍
The video shows many wars but the song is basically about how the wall that separated East and West Germany was coming down ultimately torn down when Russia collapsed and the cold war ended.
Joined the Army in May of 1987. Have( had) family who were left behind the Wall.( Poland). A small part of me honestly wondered what will both our futures bring. Will my Mother meet in person the family she writes to with a hug one day, or will I meet them on a battlefield?
Gen X. We grew up watching a world change. We were aware of world events. At home and abroad. The scorpions masterfully brought us together even more so. With this amazing song. Yeah the metal bands were cool. But they were also deep. Often misunderstood. But they connected us to what was going on at the time. Or sometimes connecting us to tragic past events. Iron Maids Pashendale was about WW1. For example. Younger generations seem to have lost touch with world events as a whole. Not dissing them. They are smart and lazer focused on certain issues. But seem to lack global understanding. ( No not all). The old music is so powerful. Enjoyed your reaction. Bright Blessings
The Scorpions are from Germany. The song is about the breaking down of The Wall and the end of the separation of Germany and the start of the end of the Cold War.
The end of the Cold War, the reunification of Germany and the dismantling of USSR. The entire world watched in awe as the Berlin Wall crumbled.
We should have left the wall up, all that Communism got out.
@@vulgarprophet2689 Hahahahaha.. Oh shit!!!
...and the band is German.
@@vulgarprophet2689 Fucking where?
@@vulgarprophet2689 The ppl who got out of that hellhole despised Communism . They spoke against Communism , NOT FOR that horrible . Repressive regime
Scorpions are a great German Band who have been going since the 1970s. Lead singer is Klaus Meine. Wind of change was released just at the end of the Cold War as the Berlin Wall fell. Their rabbit hole is immense. Great songs like Send Me An Angel, No One Like You, Rock You Like a Hurricane, Big City Nights, Still Loving You, the instrumental song Coast to Coast, Blackout. Those are just barely scratching the surface.
This song has a special place in many peoples hearts that experienced the history of the end of the Soviet Union. Seeing the wall in Berlin fall, watching countries break free of the communist regime, feeling a hope for the future. Honestly this was a amazing time (1989 - 1991) and this song summed up alot of it.
@@M0foko exactly!
@@M0foko which is why those of us who lived through the fall of communism, can't understand the call for socialism.
@@arthurzander5500 Dont think too hard about it, they’re two very different kinds of socialism
@@arthurzander5500 you may want to educate yourself on the differences between the different kinds of socialism and communism. The two are nothing alike. The Scandinavian countries such as Sweden/Norway are much better examples of socialist countries that work very well.
Context:
The Scorpions are a German band. The Berlin Wall had divided East Germany & West Germany, and throughout the Cold War the Soviet Union had stood poised to drive their army through West Germany and take control of Western Europe.
This song is about the easing of tensions with the Soviet Union and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, reuniting East and West Germany and removing the constant threat of (possibly nuclear) war.
The Moskva River and Gorky Park are in Moscow, the Russian capital. Klaus Meine, the Scorpions’ lead singer, wrote the song after a visit to the Soviet Union during the period of “perestroika”, when the Gorbachev regime was restructuring the economy and loosening relations with the West (there’s a photo of Gorbachev meeting the Pope in the video).
The montage seems to combine scenes of the Cold War with scenes from the fall of the Berlin Wall.
1990, when this song was released, was an extremely hopeful time. The constant threat of World War III was coming to an end, and people looked forward to an era of peace.
Too bad it didn’t last. The World Trade Center came down eleven years later.
This song is more like an event. I've talked with several people and they say that they not only remember when they first heard it, but also where they were when they heard it. I recon that it is so because it will forever be linked to such a momentous event in history.
Yeah, folks in Europe, particularly Germany, remember this song VERY well.
I don’t remember when I first heard but I think that’s because I just grew up hearing it lol.
I remember like it was yesterday. It echoed through space and time and the vibe was felt around world.
The first time I heard it, I was on a campsite in the Netherlands, surrounded by groups of young Germans. I had never heard it before, but they had it on contact repeat, and by the end of the weekend I knew it word for word.
I remember it well. I had just gotten started in college when the Wall fell. Many people who grew up during the Cold War remembered this song, and everything it was about...like it was yesterday.
I was serving as a volunteer Christian missionary in Northern France when this song came out. I was in a small grocery store, in a French naval city called Brest ... when "Winds of Change" came on over the speakers ---
I remember stopping what I was doing and just soaking up the very palpable vibe inherent to this song.
This song is just perfect as an anthem for the fall of the Berlin Wall, it still gives me chills!👍
And I don't recall his name, but he does all the backup vocals too! Talented guy!
@@susanhewitt5602 Klaus Meine
@@brettfolkerth7612 TY!
I watched in Canada and it teared me up ❤ My great grandfather was from Germany 🤘❤🇨🇦
@Robby Thomason it was Trump who wanted to build a wall.
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" --President Ronald Reagan 🙌
Back when the world was optimistically looking to the future.
Good time to be alive.
It didn't last. Meanwhile the Chinese government killed who knows how many people in Tiananmen Square who just wanted freedom and Saddam invaded Iraq which opened up a new can of worms which we are still dealing with. As the old saying goes the more things change the more they stay the same.
@@dsfddsgh nothing does.
No changes are permanent but change is.
I will never get how anyone over 30 could be ignorant of this song. Not a knock on you just honest surprise. Was such a fundamental song during its time during one of the most memorable times in history.
This song makes me cry every time. We were all so hopeful and free then.
*Also, Love at First Sting is my absolute favorite album cover if all time. So sexy!! 😄
Klaus Meine said in an interview that the time 1988/1989 in the Soviet Union was characterized by the mood that the Cold War was coming to an end, the music was the unifying factor between the peoples.[10] The memories of this time are also transported in the music video for the song.[11] Meine was inspired by his participation in the Moscow Music Peace Festival on August 13, 1989, at Lenin Stadium, where the Scorpions performed in front of about 300,000 fans < Source Wikipedia
Amazing track, always loved this one.
I recall watching the Berlin Wall along with millions of other's on live TV being dismantled by whatever people had on hand, families separated decade's reuniting and the sense of hope felt and shared across the world. Powerful stuff, powerful song.
If you're looking to dive into more Scorpions checkout Still Loving You.
they got the inspiration for this song. when they as germans were playing to a crowd of 100,000 russians. and they said this was the moment that change is possible. great pro peace song.
When this was first released it was at the same time as fall of the Berlin Wall which had been built up after WW2 and was considered a huge part of the end of the Cold War. Since the Scorpions are a German band this was their back door.
Wrong, the wall was built in 1961
@@rikkidgermano9640 Sorry it’s late and im typing this while playing Destiny. It was built in the aftermath of WW2. And during the Cold War.
@@ContentHouseFilms No problem , my comment was only meant to clarity 😉
I've been to over 100 concerts since '84, and the Scorpions sounded as true to their albums as you could get. Almost perfect. When Blackout came out, I was 16, and my dad made me read aloud the lyrics to Blackout. Then he asked, if I thought a 16 year old should be listening to a song about getting so drunk you blackout. I said, I don't care what it's about it sounds awesome! He was right, but so was I. The Scorpions heaviest song is China White on side 2 of Blackout. Arizona is great song too. Nobody will react to either of those songs, but... You can check 'em out, on your own, it's worth it.
The BERLIN WALL coming down was a big change . My niece from BERLIN came for a visit soon after it came down and brought each of us a piece of the wall. You are right about the whistle. That is a talent, to whistle the song as he played the guitar can't be easy
My earliest memory is sitting with my family watching the moon landing back in 1969, I was 2 years old. It was an event so impactful(and my family made a big deal out of it), but this song always reminds me of that. It was a "Wind of change" that was blowing, even if I wasn't nearly old enough to know it yet. A few decades prior to landing on the moon, the world was at war, and the fate of humanity hung in the balance. Technology grew by leaps and bounds during the decades I grew up in. I bore witness to history being made time and time again. This song so perfectly sums up those experiences.
My family came to the US from Germany, before even World War I, and some fought and died in World War II. I grew up with the knowledge that I should be proud of my German heritage, with the exception of the Nazi era. Germany was split in two after the war, and we never thought we'd see it reunite. But I did. I saw the Berlin Wall come down, I saw Germany become one, and under a Democratic government. I could openly be proud of my heritage, as the wounds of "The War" were finally healed(but never to be forgotten).
Scorpions are a band from Germany (West Germany during the cold war). This song is about coming together, inspired by the coming end to the cold war and with hope to no longer be under the shadow of the threat of total nuclear annihilation between two superpowers and the shockwave of this change throughout the world. Images and displays of bravery standing up against Tyranny and control. Such an awesome and powerful message for the time, when we all wanted Hope in a new world to reign! So glad I found your channel man; you too are an inspiration in these crazy times.
This is about when the Berlin wall came down, they were so inspired by this & wrote this song for it. The whistle really pulls you in makes me want to cry ,my late husband used to whistle that all the time. It's hard to forget that sound makes your heart just flop with all the terrible things going on now.
This song is about the end of The Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and, imo, a more hopeful time when those of us who lived it thought that the world was finally on it's way to healing and peace.
I was in my first year at West Point when this song came out. I hoped that my profession would become redundant. It did not I'm sad to say.
Thank you for your service David. I had a friend who was class of '79.
Thank you for your service David. The feeling of hope that the world was becoming a better place during this time was definitely high! I'm sorry, like you say, that we as a people quickly forgot that feeling... so thank you again for your service in trying to preserve that hope.
Thank you for your service!! God Bless you and your family!!!
Thank you for your service. Yes , I remember this time when we all felt Hope and love
My grandparents on my father's side came here to the USA from Germany after the fall of the wall. This song always reminds me of the stories they told me of hardships they endured and the courage it took to overcome them.
I miss you Opa and Oma 💔
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. In 1989, Deconstruction of the wall began!
I was in High School at the time, when the Wall came down it was one of those days in World 🌎 History you’re going to remember! A song of Change and Togetherness! 1989 “The Wall Came Down!” I still remember the News Broadcaster saying that for the first time! ✌️🇨🇦
The song is actually about how things changed politically in Russia in the late 80s, prior to the Wall being torn down.
One of the greatest bands ever, just behind Iron Maiden like everyone else. Enjoy!!!
Germany not Russia
@@davidbutler3149 Russia. Moskva is kinda a hint.
I'll never forget being mesmerized by what I was seeing on MTV news as the first pieces of rubble came bouncing down the wall , half the world wept tears of joy together !
The next Scorpions song has to be ‘No one like you’ 🔥🔥🔥
Followed by Big City Nights, and The Zoo
Yea
The end of the cold war. Still makes me cry when I hear this song.
You're hooked on the whistling, that's what draws people in.
Imagine families members on either side of the wall, not seeing each other for decades…. Risking their lives to sneak across…
The very first time I heard this was while watching a Filipino band in Singapore. I had been at sea so didn't get to hear it before that. LOVE Scorpions.
Favorite song from them.
This was shortly after the Berlin Wall came down. The most prolific German rock band of all time encapsulated the feeling of generations in one song.
Scorpions are my favorite band and have been since I first saw them in 1988… I first heard this song in 1991, but I really fell in love with it in 1992 when I participated in a student exchange from my school in Baltimore and a school in Kiev, Ukraine. I spent a month in Russia and Ukraine, and this song became burned in my brain from that trip, which is the time where I fell in love with both music and history. I am now a history teacher in Ward 8 for DCPS at Ballou HS, and I usually use this song in my Cold War lesson.
The song is about world peace!!!
This song, every time I hear this song, I remember her, and I remember us.
I was drinking alone in a dark, smoky rock bar in West Germany. The year was 1990. I was barely 19 years old, the Berlin Wall had been down for just a year, our world was changing, and so was mine; forever.
She walked in. Blonde hair in the black light. She looked lost, as if walking in was a mistake, as if she almost didn’t expect to find a bar behind the door. She was looking for something. And so was I.
She passed my corner table as she wove her way to the restroom. I caught her glance once, and then again at me as she passed. Her lips never smiled, but her eyes told me otherwise.
My God… she was beautiful. She was the kind of beautiful that a girl doesn’t even know that she is, and that just made her even more-so.
I wasn’t letting this go.
As she came back towards my table, I stood up, smiled, and asked her if she’d like to sit with me. “Thank you, but I need to be alone tonight” was her reply.
I leaned in to her ear. She pulled her hair back as if to encourage whatever it was that I had to say.
I almost whispered, purposely, to cause her to lean in closer, “I need to be alone tonight as well, so we might as well be alone together”.
I finally saw the smile that matched her eyes. She sat down, and I sat down beside her.
“Jason”, I offered.
“Melanie”, a soft angel responded. I was still swirling from the smell of her hair from just moments ago.
Just then, one of the waitresses that knew me by name stopped at our table. She asked Melanie if she’d like a drink, and Melanie looked at me. “Two Jack and Cokes, tall glasses, no straws, crushed ice please”, was my answer. Melanie smiled; I thought I might be in trouble. I hoped I was.
The waitress looked at Melanie, Melanie smiled again and said “please”.
After very little small talk, the conversations got deeper. Almost as deep as I was into her eyes by that point. I could see her soul, and it was just as beautiful as her face.
What those conversations were, are forever for just me and her. Those are just ours. Something we had that the world never will. So don’t ask.
Fast-forward several hours, the bar is getting ready to close. I knew the lights would be coming on soon, and I didn’t want this to end.
And then this song… this song comes on.
Melanie now has her head on my shoulder, the table is sticky with several empty glasses, just melting ice remaining, reminding us both that all things are finite, and that beauty, love, and life is about now, and it is all forever fading away.
This song. You need to know what it is about for context. Once you understand that, you’ll better appreciate a teenage American soldier, and an teenage girl that grew up in east Germany holding on to each other.
In the middle of this song, Melanie raised her head from my shoulder, looked into my eyes, and said, “I don’t like this world, I want you to take me away”. She kept staring into me, waiting for the answer.
I took her by the hand as I stood up, she then stood up and faced me. “Let’s go”, was my answer. She smiled again and hugged me tightly; man… I can still smell her hair as I write this.
It was the night before a 4-day weekend, I had a pocket full of German and American cash; God had planned this all out very well.
We spent the next 4 days traveling around Germany together.
We played in a fountain with children, we danced in the streets, we helped a little girl find her mother, we earned a fine dinner by helping a shopkeeper repair his door, we laughed, we talked, we held hands in silence for hours.
For the first time in my young life I saw true beauty in this world. All reflected in her eyes.
We went to museums, and we went to raves. We went to beer festivals, and we went to a movie. We were surrounded by millions of people one moment, and in the next we were alone together, making love high atop an old abandoned tower in a rainstorm.
That thunder, that lightning, and that hard rain on that tin roof will never be forgotten.
And then, the last day came.
The guesthouse was quiet that morning. We filled our bags with things we didn’t need, in preparing to leave what we did.
The train ride to her little town was a beautiful one. She pointed out things along the way from her childhood. Truth be known, I was staring more at her beautiful face reflecting from the window. There’s that smile to match those eyes. There’s the smell of her hair.
The train slowed to a stop. We were there. I cannot remember the name of the town now. But, here 30 years later, I still remember that goodbye.
She turned to me with that smile. She kissed me as I still to this day have never been kissed again. But then it ended. Like the melting ice in those glasses a few nights ago.
She now had a tear in her eye. She softly said, “please, never forget me”. “I’ll sooner forget my next breath” was my reply.
I walked her to the door of the train. She turned one last time, slowly put her little arms around me, and whispered something in German that I’ll never know, except for one of the words; “Liebe”, which I know means “love”.
One last kiss, then she turned and stepped onto the platform. I watched her walking away, not looking back. Dear God I wanted her to look back.
I returned to my seat. I’d never felt so alone in all my life. The train shuddered and began to move.
I looked out the window, but now only seeing my lone reflection in the glass.
Then I saw her leaning against the wall of the station. She was looking directly at me, watching me go; wiping away her tears.
We’d forgotten to tell our souls to also say goodbye. The train continued on. The reflection in the glass stayed solitary, and blurred by tears.
From the pain in my stomach and chest, I’d say that my heart was ripped out and left on that train station platform with her 30 years ago.
Writing this made me smile again, and just now writing the ending made me cry again. So, no Melanie, I’ll never forget you. That promise has been kept.
I love you too.
I am 71 yrs old and I will never forget 9th of November 1989. I woke my son up at 4am (eastern time) to show him all the East and West Germans celebrating as one free people. People were dancing and breaking chunks of the wall, heavy machinery was pulling big sections down it was glorious. Then the greatest thing ever to happen, happened in December 26th 1991, Communism fell and so did the Soviet Union. For the first time those people tasted freedom.
You wanna see a killer concert? Look up Pantera “Domination” Live From Moscow.
Thank you, my friend. You got me flashing back to 1986/87. This song became an anthem for the fall of the Berlin Wall and the winding down of communist Russia/ the Eastern Block at the end of the 80"s.
This song holds a special place in my heart. I watched as these events unfolded.
Commemorating a huge milestone….such an epic song!
I remember Ronald Reagan gave a speech saying “Mr Gorbachev, tear down that wall!”
I grew up in the 60s & 70s, & the Cold War was a very real backdrop to our lives then. Nuclear arms race was getting out of control, Russia was a very real threat. But with the deployment of Star Wars surveillance system & Russia collapsing under its own economic failures, food shortages etc, the first glimmer of hope came with the Peaceful overtures of Mikhail Gorbachev & the dismantling of the Berlin Wall which allowed East & West Germans to reunite after so many decades of enforced separation.
I still remember watching the television in awe as the Berlin Wall was torn down and the East and West united. I was in junior high. It was the first time I realized that not everyone lived the same as everyone in the USA. More than 30 years later we invited a German foreign exchange student to stay with our family. His dad is my age and lived behind the wall. It is interesting to hear the perspective from his dad and grandparents of living in East Berlin. Definitely makes me grateful to live in the USA.
I was stationed in Elangen, Germany when this all happened.
Beautiful town and great people. Some of the older German folks wanted US troops out and were quite vocal about it. I get it and hope they're doing well as the world moves on.
The folks I met who got out of East Berlin were really excited and great to interact with.
Klaus is the lead singers name. They are a German band in sing in German in English. I was fortunate enough to be in the military when the Berlin wall came down, I saw them on the wall, along with many other bands, including Pink Floyd, which is ironic, because Pink Floyd‘s biggest album was, “the wall“. The song is about all the changes after the Cold War.
Thank you for sharing this with me
As a German band they really sang to the closing of the Cold War era, spoke to that reality, with Wind of Change. Most people were struggling to believe there could ever be peace, and the Scorpions stepped up and helped Pied Piper the world away from the brink. (Shout out to Sting on that account, too. Pink Floyd played, The Wall, literally on the Wall in Berlin, tore down part of it as the finale in the stage show.)
The Scorpions r from Germany. They were the first German rock band to break big internationally in 1978-'79 singing English songs.
Scorpions' lead singer Klaus Meine (who sang all the backing vocals here) wrote 'Wind of change' in 1990 after the Scorpions played communist Russia in 1988 for the first time... a country that had once banned the Beatles & rock music during the cold war. They returned to play Moscow Peace festival in 1989 to a stadium audience and saw the progress in Europe at the time embracing Western music,which was a huge deal. Klaus even gave a shout out to an opening band at those shows called Gorky Park in his lyrics...
The context of a German band like the Scorpions becoming popular in Russia was a feat, given just 5 decades ago in the 1940's, German nazis invaded Russia and slaughtered 27 million Russians during WW II... Russians later invaded Berlin and ended the war in Europe. Then the communists and the Allied forces led by USA carved Germany into East and West... East being communist, West being liberal democracy.
Members of the Scorpions grew up in the West (Rammstein were born in the East) and heard about what their nazi grandparents' generation did... Klaus and guitarist Rudolf Schenker who founded the Scorpions did not in any way support those past atrocities... they grew up loving English and American rock n roll music in the 1960's.
Scorpions released albums thru the 70's but couldn't travel beyond Europe. That changed in 1978 when they broke big in Japan and toured there for the first time... then they came to America in 1979 and had a platinum selling record in the US by 1981.
By 1988, the Scorpions were global superstars when they played sold out concerts in Russia... To see their music help heal the past wounds between their countries and winning over Russian fans gave a huge appreciation for the power of music to bring people together.
When the 'Wind of change' single was released in 1990, East and West Germany finally united as one country after 40+ years of separation, as the Berlin wall came down. It was another great moment for the members of the Scorpions.
When music can do things like that.that is good enough.
Still Loving You is my favorite Scorpions song! Absolutely beautiful! ♥️
Omg this still makes me emotional!! The Berlin wall fell, the end of the Cold War!!! I remember watching the Berlin Wall falling and jumping up and down, crying, clapping and feeling so much happiness for all the people who were freed because of it!!! The Scorpions were from Germany, so they lived it, while we in America watched it on TV.
These guys are a German Rock Band that was very popular in the 1980's they are from West Germany. The singer for many years now has lived in California with his wife and son Christen !!! Love this video and this song, it was about the Berlin wall being torn down and the East Berliners running to West Berlin, and Germany was reunited one country again, I remember on the television that West Germany was running out of everything in all their stores because Eastern European really wanted to work and buy Western clothes, Electronics, anything you could imagine. I had a very good friend that was in Germany in the 1970s and she told me that Germans could tell where you were from by just the kind of clothes you had on and she had several German women walk up to her and ask her how much money she would take for her blue jeans but, she never sold her Levi's to them, at that time Germany was still 2 countries and even the West German people longed to have the things The United States had and I'm sure items the English were able to get. One of my cousins was over in Germany when the Berlin Wall was torn down her Husband was serving in the U.S. Army and was stationed there when in the late 1980's the Cold War came to its end at last !!!
The word "Moskva" is the transliteration of the word "Moscow" . There is also a river in Russia with the same name and is why the songs says to follow the Moskva (river) down to Gorky Park. Gorky Park is a literal park in Russia and kind of like our NYC, Central Park and is where the cold war spies of Russia and the US often met. Its about the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war.
This is the most important song you will ever here in your life
"Wind of Change" was a 1991 song. It was about the Berlin Wall falling. It was the end of the cold war. Europe was finally able to connect to each other. The Scorpions are a French band. It was a great time, full of hope. .... it never could end like we all thought it would. But, back then, man there was hope! I'm partial to "Still Loving You" as another song they sing.
The scorpions are from Germany.
The text celebrates the political changes that took place in Europe towards the end of the 1980s. He is committed to East-West understanding and thus hit the nerve of the times. It became an anthem of renewal in the Soviet Union. Klaus Meine said in an interview that the period 1988/1989 in the Soviet Union was shaped by the mood that the Cold War was coming to an end, that music was what connects peoples. The memories of that time are also conveyed in the music video for the song.
Greetings from Germany 🙏
You need to experience Still loving you the 6+ minute version by them.
Facts.
Yes!
This song really hits deep for those of us growing up in the 60’s and 70’s. I remember doing nuclear war protection drills. They basically included you rolling into a ball underneath your desk. Thinking back and realizing how absurd it probably was but at the time the anxiety was real. Before this song I was stationed in Germany. Russia was threatening to invade because of a kid flying into red square and Russia thinking the west was testing their radar. I remember being on the border looking across at thousands of Russian troops. A priest had come by to offer prayer and being prepared for the afterlife. If war broke out we probably had 10 minutes to live. But then the events with Reagan and Gorbachev and the Berlin Wall that this song is using as the symbol of freedom and it eased that anxiety. The people growing up in the 80’s didn’t feel that so they lucked out. Strange world but wonderful how a song can bring back these great memories
They wrote this song after being (one of) the first western act(s) to be allowed to play on the Soviet Union. It is about the feeling of change that was going on in Moscow back then.
And when the Wall was falling I remember my elementary school teacher saying that we should remember this moment because it would end up in the history books and we were living in that time...
The man climbing on the tank, no one knows his name but everyone who saw what he did knows he is a hero. He stood in front of a column of tanks forcing them to stop. While the column eventually resumed their trek to Tiananmen Square for a moment a HERO stood taller and stronger than any army. My heart goes out to those brave souls who died standing up for freedom in China. May your dream one day come true.
Thank you for reaction. This was a really important moment for us x-ers and older.
The Scorpions r a rock band formed in Hanover, West Germany in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker, who wanted to play rock n roll music from America and the West. He met lead singer Klaus Meine and later offered him to sing for the Scorpions by 1970. Rudolf's younger brother Michael Schenker joined on lead guitar at age 16, having played in Klaus' previous band.
Scorpions' first album 'Lonesome crow' in 1972 was a mix of jazz, psychedelic rock and Hendrix-style guitars... the band broke up in 1973 after Michael Schenker left to join British rockers U.F. O.
Klaus & Rudolf opted to join forces w/ lead guitarist Ulrich Roth (now Uli Jon Roth) and kept the Scorpions name for the new line-up w/ Francis Buccholz joining on bass... they released 4 studio albums w/ Roth before he quit in 1978, just as drummer Herman Rarebell (drums) joined... Michael Schenker rejoined briefly, but quit soon after. Matthias Jabs joined on lead guitar in 1979 as their album 'Lovedrive' went gold in the US after touring America for the first time.
Scorpions released a string of platinum records thru the 80's and became global superstars going into 1990 w/ the album 'Crazy world'... However, the 90's proved difficult as their popularity fell in the new decade. Bassist Francis Buccholz quit the band in 1992... drummer Herman Rarebell left in 1995.
The Scorpions kept recording & touring past 2000 and finally began to see newer fans by 2004... bassist Pawel Maciwoda joined in '04... drummer James Kottak played in the band from 1996 til 2015. Mikkey Dee of Motorhead joined on drums in 2016 w/ Klaus (vocals), Rudolf (guitar) & Matthias (lead guitar) ... they have a new album 'Rock believer' coming out in 2022, I believe 😁🔥🔥🔥🤘
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Scorpions have a lot of arena rock hits - 'Big city nights' ... 'No one like you'... 'Lovedrive' ... 'Rock you like a hurricane' ... 'Tease me please me' ... 'No pain no gain' ... 'Hour 1'... 'The Zoo' ⚡🔥🔥🔥🤘
Their ballads for the ladies were huge singles - 'Holiday' ... 'Still loving you' ... 'Send me an angel' ... 'Under the same sun'
... 'When the smoke is going down' ... 'Woman' ... 'When you came into my life'... 'Believe in love' ... 'In trance'... 🔥
I was in the United States Marine Corps or had just recently been honorably discharged when this song came out
😄 I found your reaction to it...it may have new meaning hearing it again now. Your journey has been incredible.
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the ideological barriers between Soviet Union and capitalist west were showing signs of possible hope, through love, such a powerful force for peace equality but also dangerous..
loved this song even had it as one of the three songs for first dance at wife and my wedding reception in a damn Tudor castle..
This is about the Berlin wall coming down. It's a beautiful song that I still love today as much as the day it was released.
At the beginning of the video is of the different wars that involved Germany. This song is about the fall of the Berlin Wall! Ronald Reagan said take it down and it happened. We watched history a country divided by a wall that if you tried to cross you got SHOT! No joke! Klaus Meine is the lead singer, he stands like 5'1but his voice is 10foot tall!! Seeing them in concert was such a wonderful time!!
Watching these music videos with you makes the song so much better
I hadn’t heard of this song until about 5 months ago, but I came across a podcast titled the same name as the song and it’s very interesting. I definitely recommend giving that podcast a listen because it explains a lot of the mystique around the origins of the song.
Im sixty five and lived through the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This song is about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany! It was also a moment of pride for Americans seeing something beautiful happening due to our support for West Germany. People have forgotten about the Berlin airlift and how tense those times were! Now we are heading into the same kind of world atmosphere with China. Unfortunately now we have weak leadership that may have already been compromised and seems to lack the belief in our country’s founding principles!
❤this band 👌 😍
One of my all time favs. ❤️
This song is about unity. We need unity more than ever because of the forces in government that are specifically trying to divide us and destroy our republic.
U got that right ✅ 😏 👌🏻 💯 👏 😉
Amen Mike!
Klaus Meine would disagree
@@jorgbecker5028 how so?
I remember watching the wall come down with tears of joy in my eyes
U had I eyes closed when a prisoner was assassinated. The wars were being visualized while u were playing ur drum solo.... Music gotcha 👍
Lead singer is Klaus Meine...since 1969.....a couple of others before him...."Wind of Change".... also written by Klaus
The singer said the song came to him. After the Scorpions a German band.
Performed in Russia. It's how time changes beliefs.
I remember this well, the fall of the berlin wall- these were all the sights from then, and this was literally the soundtrack was an amazing thing to watch. I remember my whole family watching live on tv and the older folks got choked up watching cause they really knew what it meant. its funny
to think the future looked alot brighter then too.
This one is very special. Captures a moment in time that will never happen again. Send Me An Angel is equally as awesome. The end of the Cold War and the reunification of Germany. There were families split for decades after the wall went up.
I absolutely ❤ 🦂 SCORPIONS 🦂 ❤
BEEN MY FAVORITE BAND SINCE I WAS 6YEARS OLD. SAW THEM FOR MY FIRST CONCERT At 8yrs old. IM NOW 37 AND STILL LISTEN TO THEM EVERY DAY. SHIT NEVER GETS OLD. THIS IS GREAT BUT HOLD NO COMPARISON TO THEIR 70'S ERA STUFF. ANYTHING FROM 72' TO 79' IS ABSOLUTELY GOLD. THE REST OF THEIR CAREERS IS STILL FABULOUS BUT NOT THE SAME. TRUST ME.
I WOULD START WITH🔥🔥🔥 "WE'LL BURN THE SKY " 🔥🔥🔥OR 🔥🔥🔥"FAR AWAY" 🔥🔥🔥OR 🔥🔥🔥"EVENING WIND"🔥🔥🔥 OR 🔥🔥🔥"FLY PEOPLE FLY" 🔥🔥🔥OR anything else from that era. One more off their first album LONESOME CROW I would check out IS 🔥🔥🔥"INHERITANCE"🔥🔥🔥 there is so may more masterpieces.
Please do it Van. You won't regret. And the guitar work from then is played by"Uli Jon Roth" one of the best to ever play hands down. You da man Van. Keep up the great content. Thx brother
I’ve seen Scorpions 9 times. This is the song I generally get up, use the restroom, and get another beer.
I've loved this since the first time I heard it. Definitely my favorite from The Scorpions. I think it's about coming together and making changes. The Scorpions are German and show some historic moments in the video.
They are from Germany, as well; so it had a direct feeling of changing for the better to them.
I love Timeless Songs❤️
Also check out " Still loving you" and "Rock you like a Hurricane".
It's great when music reminds us of what COULD HAVE BEEN...Now we're here.
Scorpions are from Germany and this was around the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Klaus is the singer and you should REALLY check out STILL LOVING YOU by the Scorpions.
It's about the Domino effect starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall and ending with all the Iron Curtain countries becoming Democracies. It Ultimately ended in the fall of the Soviet Union a couple years later. The Wind of Change
I first encountered The Scorpions in the late 1970s, although the band actually was initiated in 1965 by Rudolf Schenker (the rhythm guitarist, and the only member who's always been with the band.) They've changed their musical style and typical genre several times, and often put out songs that aren't typical of their usual work product for the period. This song is one example of that. They had their greatest commercial success starting in the late 1970s through the early 1990s, which is one reason many wrongly think of them as just another 80's band. The other reason is simply that, during that period, they focused on hard rock and heavy metal, including "power ballads." It was during that period that they achieved "supergroup" status.
The lead singer is Klaus Meine--definitely one of the greatest rock / metal vocalists. For this performance (and since 1978,) their lead guitarist was Mathias Jabs. The drummer was Herman Rarebell.
"Wind Of Change" was put out in November 1990, on their album "Crazy World." The song is about the geopolitical "sea change" that resulted in the fall of the Eastern (Communist) block in general (which was still in progress at the time,) and about the fall of the Berlin Wall (and the therefore-certain reunification of East and West Germany) in particular. It's the "poster song" for that period of geopolitical history, and the events that occurred at the time. That's one reason it has so many views (in addition to being a great song, all by itself.)
Seems we have always felt the need to sing songs of unity, peace and harmony. I’ve been around a while, seen the wars in Northern Ireland, The Gulf War, The Falklands War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the recession of the early 80s…seems sometimes we just never learn. I love songs of unity and peace, but how many of our brothers and sisters, (the human race, we are ALL brothers and sisters) must die along the way until we realise we don’t need to fight anymore? I dunno, but I do remember this song and how beautiful the words were🙏🏻❤️🌎🌏🌍
No band would play in northern Ireland in the eighties .only Rory Gallagher
One of the biggest musical acts in history.
This is a song about UNITY❤
The fall of the wall❤ Beautiful ❤
# Air drummer of the year 🤘
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I didn't hear this song until doing time in another state listening to the radio hearing it I didn't know who did it until much later.
Germany was divided at the time after WW2 into a Russian (USSR) and Western part with a wall dividing the country. this song was about the moments Germany was finally reunited and the wall was torn down...
Scorpions! Great band! I love Michael Schenker on guitar though he doesn't play the solo here. Been a fan of his since the 70's when he was in UFO. Check him out in live version of "Doctor, Doctor Please" by UFO.
His older brother Rudolph actually plays the solo on this song
@@jameshagan2268 I said "though he doesn't play the so,o here".
I just found out they are a German band... I love so many of their songs and never knew that.
Back in 2015, SCORPIONS said "Wind Of Change" was inspired by the sight of thousands of Russians cheering them on in 1988 - when they became the first hard rock band to play in Russia - and in 1989, at the aforementioned Moscow Music Peace Festival, even though they were a German band.Dec 30, 2020
Great song by a great band! Awesome review 👍
I was there when the wall came down 😊
Keep it going man, love your content. Respect from north of the border!
The video shows many wars but the song is basically about how the wall that separated East and West Germany was coming down ultimately torn down when Russia collapsed and the cold war ended.
Russia never collapsed . It was the USSR.
Joined the Army in May of 1987. Have( had) family who were left behind the Wall.( Poland).
A small part of me honestly wondered what will both our futures bring. Will my Mother meet in person the family she writes to with a hug one day, or will I meet them on a battlefield?
Gen X. We grew up watching a world change. We were aware of world events. At home and abroad. The scorpions masterfully brought us together even more so. With this amazing song.
Yeah the metal bands were cool. But they were also deep. Often misunderstood. But they connected us to what was going on at the time. Or sometimes connecting us to tragic past events. Iron Maids Pashendale was about WW1. For example. Younger generations seem to have lost touch with world events as a whole. Not dissing them. They are smart and lazer focused on certain issues. But seem to lack global understanding. ( No not all).
The old music is so powerful.
Enjoyed your reaction.
Bright Blessings
Because it's the song of the Velvet Revolution!
The Scorpions are from Germany. The song is about the breaking down of The Wall and the end of the separation of Germany and the start of the end of the Cold War.