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Music with great whistling- Home Free - Champayne Taste on a Beer Budget and Butts Remix. The Spaghetti Western Orchestra m.ua-cam.com/video/RrlAMG8BH5A/v-deo.html Kicks in at about 4 mins. 😊
I'm a 51 year old German man, and growing up, I always felt 2nd-hand embarrassment (aka cringe) about Klaus' German accent and their hairdo etc... Until I was in the audience of their "wind of change tour" I didn't understand how HUGE they were... but now, seeing great people like you react to them on UA-cam, analysing them and telling me how much you respect them, really lets me understand the magnitude of their influence and greatness. So thanks a lot for your great reaction, analysis and for removing some of my "German inferiority complex".
There's nothing wrong in speaking english with a german, italian, french, russian or chinese accent. Even US americans and brits have lots of accents. I'm a 51 yo Scorpions fan since '85, when they released the great Worldwide Live album and instead of their hairs what amazed me were the tight and colourful clothes they wore. Übrigens, ich kann auch Deutsch sprechen, aber bin kein deutscher.
I was born behind the iron curtain and every single time I hear this song I can see my grandmother staring at the TV news showing people climbing over the Berlin Wall with this song playing in the background and my Grandma muttering over and over again "This can't be true... This can't be true..." The song and that moment are fused together forever.
I consider this one of the greatest rock ballads ever written. Surely, it is. And that the band did a tremendous job of capturing the kind of emotional atmosphere created by all of these important changes.
I love this song. From Dec 1985 to Apr 1988 I was a US Army military police officer stationed in the former FRG. I left thinking that damn wall would never fall. I’ve walked the border near Camp Lee, my second station in the FRG was 7 air minutes from the Czech border and in the middle of the Fulda Gap. My will was written at the age of 19, all done by choice, I come from a service family. My great uncle survived D Day at Normandy, my mom’s cousin earned a Medal of Honor in Vietnam, my father was wounded at Dak To in Vietnam. When the wall fell I was out of the Army in college. Then this song hit. Every time I hear this song I get goosebumps. And yes, it was a song of hope.
The other track of the time is Stings song ... lets hope the Russians love their children too... Cannot remember the title yet.🤔 As for the whistling Beth think about the scene in the third man ... That sets the start of the cold war feel...and then think of this at what was approaching the end of the cold war period.
I don’t think this song would be the same without that whistle. When listening to the radio, the minute you hear that whistle you knew what song was coming on. As a Gulf War Vet I remember the version that was used as a dedication to those of us serving overseas and the families we left behind.
Boy. I remember watching the Berlin wall come down.. For those of us that grew up during the cold War it was magic. The World was filled with so much hope for a minute or two. And now today.....it rips the heart to pieces hearing leaders threatening nuclear war.
Right. I am glad that at least my children are a grown up - I'd hate to have to try to explain to a 9-12 years old child what is going on and what the danger is. I guess in the 60es, 70es and 80es, we had great music to escape into and find peace and comfort in.
Hi Beth! Thank you so much for listening to this song and raising the subject and talking about it now. I'm writing this from Moscow, where all the sane people have been mourning for three days now about the death of Alexey Navalny in prison. It's like all hope died with him. What a nightmare it is that we're going through. Sorry, English is not my native language, so I can't be as articulate as you. You're such a beautiful heart, thank you again.
Песня действительно неплоха, я бы даже сказал пророческая. Надеюсь ветер перемен и дальше будет уносить всю скверну и предательство подальше из Москвы и России в ваш обожаемый Лондон и Берлин вместе с прахом несбыточных надежд и покойных МНОГО МНОГО лет и дальше. А в Россию и дальше будут приезжать многодетные семьи из этих стран плюс Канада и Австралия и др. , в страну где, по их высказываниям, есть перспективы и есть нормальное будущее для их детей. Гляньте только, какие они оставляют там дома и фермы в обмен на будущее своих детей. Плевали они на высокие зарплаты за Западе, обосновываясь здесь, на пустом месте. И еще, кошмаров надо было бояться в 2014 году в Киеве. Уже бы привыкли.
I'm from Canada and English is my native language. If you didn't say that English wasn't your native language I never would have questioned it. Your English is better than many people who speak it as their primary language.
The Teutonic Terrors of metal! This band is unbelievably talented!! They are incredible live!!! The true masters of the rock ballad!!! My wife has passed…so now, it’s all about “We’ll burn the sky”
lm 54. And l remember. And l have seen This Amazing band, Many times. This song is Relevant TODAY. "With great power comes great responsibility". “Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” Love your channel Beth. lm sorry/not sorry for the comment. ( l have tears with this song.....today and from the 1st time l heard it on the radio ) Thanks for the channel and You give me Faith in Music and the Love for it.
The first concert my dad ever took me was Scorpions in 93. Backstage with Meet and Greet. I've later seen Bon Jovi, R.E.M., Prince and many others, but Scorpions still have a special place in my heart. I'll never give that drumstick I got away.
@@TeemarkConvair 60-80% of the population likely affected by long covid which expresses itself through a reduction in brain capacity from enflamed tissue, causing exhaustion, stress and anger. Give it another 5-10 years before medicine figures anything out about that... Until then, we're living in Idiocracy - Live Action Experience. That's life now.
Prior to 2/24/2022 I would never have thought this, but now I think this song has not aged very well. It seems that there was no fundamental change after all. Slava Ukraini!
@@sootikins Slava Ukraini!..!!!!!!! Good people MUST FORCE CHANGE...! Me and You, and l have failed in the last years but l have NEW Vision and its Clear. l will VOTE out and SPEAK out now. (and l have from 2/24/2002) l have friends in Lviv and Dnipro. l have a Kind but weak leader now but l BE DAMN, If a Con-Man/Traitor will take power again.
It was the mid 1990's. My English ex wife and I were touring the Midlands, stopping for a pub lunch here and there. Wherever we went, if there was a jukebox, someone would drop "Winds of Change" when they heard my American accent. It was a word to me wise. We also called it "Gorky Park".:)
I do not know if I am already ready to hear this song again. It was a massive hit way back in Germany and it was played everywhere until I got completely tired of it.
As a Ukrainian, this song has a special meaning for me. I was born a few years before it was written and it was one of the signature tunes of my youth. And now that russia returned to its dictatorship ways and unleashed a terrible war upon our country, the band, as you mentioned, changed the lyrics to offer their support to Ukraine. Gestures like this, along with their advocacy, give us hope for a briggter future
the scorpions was a very dynamic group and they were so intense and fun to hear that once you heard their music you had to have more, kinda like a addiction that you couldn't satisfy.
Hiya Beth, so glad I found your channel tonight through this song - I was an engineer UK Naval Officer through the 80's and and early 90's and this song was played daily onboard ship. It was almost an anthem! Now I'm looking after my two beautiful Ukrainian fatherless neighbour families the best I can in south coast UK. Beautiful song and beautifully presented - thanks Beth 👍😊
I had liked the Scorpions for some time for thier hard rock nearly metal songs, but this is the song where I realized Klaus Meine was an amazing singer. I wish I could like it twice but instead I will commment to appease the algorithm gods. Have a wonderful unit of time.
Klaus Meine is one of the greatest rock singers to ever be on stage. He can hold his own against a Mercury or Dio. The harder songs do not do his voice justice in many cases, but listen to In Trance, We'll burn the Sky, or Send me an Angel. His voice blows you out of the water. Still Loving You also demonstrates his amazing range and pitch, but that song's been as done to death as Wind of Change 😉
It wasn't written after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but after a Rock Festival in Moscow in August 1989. He described the feeling of a new wind in the Sovjet Union, which led ultimatly in the German Unfication.
Beautiful song. These guys were so lucky..they could whistle while they worked..honestly, no pun intended. Much better than our generation murmuring: hup 2-3-4 on the way to Vietnam..or our parents coming home weary from war only to see the wall go up. The solemness of this song and time..and the hope it restored was truly monumental. Today..not so much I'm afraid. Glad you enjoyed this wonderful song.
As a child of late stage Cold War, this song still brings me to tears. It’s a moment you can say, I remember when that happened. I’m sorry it didn’t come bring peace in the long run.
This song is so epic. A few days before the wall fell me, my friend and our moms, visited the Reichstag and Tiergarten - Area along the wall. Surprisingly we found some plattform there installed where you could look over the wall, from a heightened view. I suppose it was the same platform where David Hasselhoff stood on, when he sung "Looking for Freedom". These were like the hymns for this special time, alltogether with "Freiheit" from Marius-Müller Westernhagen.
They were my first concert as a kid in 93. Face the Heat Tour. I still have a drumstick that they used. Always nice to see people discover bands that I've known for all of my life. Wind of Change has always been a favorite of mine.
Very iconic song. I was just out of my teens when it came out, and was in the middle of it too having just been in the middle of one of the revolutions that ended communism in eastern Europe. Scorpions are legends. They released a new album recently. :)
Glad to hear about the story behind this song. The fall of the Berlin wall was one of the biggest historical moments of that century. I would have never guessed this was a German band.
I think I was about 12 when this song came out and it gave me such chills. 30 odd years later and it still gives me those chills. Its absolutely amazing😊
When this songs was released I was teen and song bring so much hope from world peace and bright future. It was happy song. Now when cold war II is here and iron curtain has landed again it makes me sad. I remember seeing as kid those men who had fight in ww2 and wounded. Back then song gave hope that it wouldn't happen again.
I can't even picture this song without the whistle. It's absolutely iconic. As a child of the Cold War, this song is such a tribute to my history. I grew up not wondering if I was going to face a nuclear holocaust, but only questioning when it was going to happen. I remember "The Day After", and could picture the "dust that was a city" in "99 Red Balloons". I was a senior in high school when the Berlin Wall fell. And, to quote another tribute song, "Right here, right now, there is no other place I'd rather be. Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history." There is so much hope in "Winds of Change", which has always been one of my favorites. Now, I just worry that we're slipping back, that Russia is wanting to rebuild the wall (and the idea of a border wall in Mexico honestly scares the hell out of me).
The very first time I heard this was while watching a Filipino cover band in Singapore. They nailed it, (including the whistle) I had been at sea so didn't get to hear it before that. I LOVE the Scorpions. I rock with them, but this my favorite song. 10/03/2017 Grand Sierra Resort Reno 😎
The first concert I ever attended was the Scorpions with Bon Jovi opening for them in Rochester, NY. 1984. I was a soldier stationed in Upstate NY. at the time and later was stationed in West Germany 1985 - 1988.
I really love that some of the science of music is coming back to the channel! Thanks Beth! Another song that had a whistled part that went from placeholder to final song was Billy Joel's The Stranger. In the right place it's such an amazing sound.
As a guy from East Germany you recognize this song after milliseconds. Heard this oh so often, it's imprinted in my brain. Besides, I really appreciate the actual nerd level of this channel and how it is not only about the love of music, but goes much deeper with a friendly and lovely kind of dedication! Keep going.
You're listening to the voice, and the lyrics and message in the words, when you do your analysis of other works pay attention to this, and why some songs work, and others don't.
Think it is so interesting that it is a slow song, not a happy celebrating song. It was a cold war where the peace never seem to come (I guess, I'm born 1990).. And his emphasis on the word change i think is a way of saying "Now let there be real change". Fun fact as a toddler i was in Berlin just after the fall of the wall. In 2019 i was back on my own and it felt like home, where history and rebirth meets.
I remember watching the wall come down on the news in 1989. I was only 8 years old and didn’t understand what was going on but my parents explained it as best they could. Dad born in 1942 and mom in 1943 had grown up in the Soviet era and the wall going up. I remember dad saying he never thought that any of this would happen in his lifetime.
I was about 9 years old when this song came about. I feel like I was born into such a positive attitude world and now its all gloom and doom. This song is so moving and Klaus Meine is one sure fine singer. Such a great song.
This song brought tears to my eyes when it first came out. The realization that humankind had won, and the evil that is communism was largely defeated, and relegated to the trash heap of history. That everyone had seen the truth…. Absolute tears of joy. Now, it’s tears of rage and frustration that so many people are hellbent on bringing it back.
Beth, even though I have a plethora of your reactions that I am going to happily binge watch ….you and I have a long weekend in store, however you are far too exceptional as a singer in your own right, you are obviously well trained and artistically talented. I just love your original songs and your Chris Issac cover is as awesome as the original. I just can’t praise your talent enough.❤❤❤❤❤
Love The Scorpions my favorit band, this song as you said have a great message that still applies today and together with Black Eyed Peas: Where is the love, is two of the songs that best describe the need to love and togetherness in the world.
So, the reason they - and many Germans - were appreciative of Gorbachev was his refusal to send Russian troops to support East Germany forces trying to maintain the security of The Wall. Eric Honecker was losing control in October '89 and requested Gorbachev send forces to help him maintain control and power and Gorby refused. That was essentially the signal that Honecker's days were numbered.
I was stationed in Europe in the years leading up to this. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall was a great opportunity for a lasting peace which unfortunately we wasted.
It was the time of Russia's political opening to the West. The USSR had collapsed and the winds of change were blowing through Russia. The Scorpions made their first appearance in Moscow and for the first time there was no censorship. When they arrived in Moscow, the band wrote the song shortly before the performance. The Wind Of Change...
I’d say WOC because I think more people know it worldwide. I like CW better because I prefer Axl’s voice. Not a knock to Klaus at all, he is an amazing singer. It’s just a preference.
Una canción tan bonita y además de fondo en el vídeo de la caída del muro de Berlín la hace inmortal bien Beth 👏👏🍀🍀 porciento ese color militar te hace ver más hermosa 💙🌹
this version that you have here is shorter than the original song, and offical video where there is anouther verse that is cut out of this performance and guitar solo as well.
Sometimes radio overplay diminishes a song greatly, and this must be no1. After giving a song a break of about twenty years you start to appreciate it again 😄
This song is special and heartfelt because it's about the Cold War and his dreams of what things could be like if that wall was gone (e.g. "like brothers"). That wall finally came down .......but now look what Putin has done. And look what just happened with 40 people in Russia killed ....by ISIS? It's just really sad and it makes this song even sadder. I was a teen in the 80s and so many of the songs of that time were about the Cold War. They now give new meaning today...especially Tears for Fears Everybody Wants to Rule the World. I feel that history is repeating itself. We take 10 steps forward, only to take 15 steps backward many years later.
One of my top 3 bands. If you want to try another group, try stealheart. "She's gone". Look them up. Miljenko is one of the most underestimated vocalists ever.
Hallo Beth Es war meine Jugend und ich habe die Wende genau mitbekommen Es war eine wunderbare Zeit der Wende zum Guten....wir waren Frei....und dieses wunderbare Lied passte genau ....PFEIFE den Wind der Wende....😊 Einen schönen Abend
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Music with great whistling-
Home Free - Champayne Taste on a Beer Budget and Butts Remix.
The Spaghetti Western Orchestra
m.ua-cam.com/video/RrlAMG8BH5A/v-deo.html
Kicks in at about 4 mins.
😊
Wish you had reacted to the full version.
I'm a 51 year old German man, and growing up, I always felt 2nd-hand embarrassment (aka cringe) about Klaus' German accent and their hairdo etc... Until I was in the audience of their "wind of change tour" I didn't understand how HUGE they were... but now, seeing great people like you react to them on UA-cam, analysing them and telling me how much you respect them, really lets me understand the magnitude of their influence and greatness. So thanks a lot for your great reaction, analysis and for removing some of my "German inferiority complex".
There's nothing wrong in speaking english with a german, italian, french, russian or chinese accent. Even US americans and brits have lots of accents. I'm a 51 yo Scorpions fan since '85, when they released the great Worldwide Live album and instead of their hairs what amazed me were the tight and colourful clothes they wore. Übrigens, ich kann auch Deutsch sprechen, aber bin kein deutscher.
I was born behind the iron curtain and every single time I hear this song I can see my grandmother staring at the TV news showing people climbing over the Berlin Wall with this song playing in the background and my Grandma muttering over and over again "This can't be true... This can't be true..." The song and that moment are fused together forever.
Wind of Change is a MASTERPIECE. Deeply meaningful and deeply emotional.
I consider this one of the greatest rock ballads ever written. Surely, it is. And that the band did a tremendous job of capturing the kind of emotional atmosphere created by all of these important changes.
The whistling is probably what first attracted me to the song. This song is just so beautiful.
I love this song. From Dec 1985 to Apr 1988 I was a US Army military police officer stationed in the former FRG. I left thinking that damn wall would never fall. I’ve walked the border near Camp Lee, my second station in the FRG was 7 air minutes from the Czech border and in the middle of the Fulda Gap. My will was written at the age of 19, all done by choice, I come from a service family. My great uncle survived D Day at Normandy, my mom’s cousin earned a Medal of Honor in Vietnam, my father was wounded at Dak To in Vietnam. When the wall fell I was out of the Army in college. Then this song hit. Every time I hear this song I get goosebumps. And yes, it was a song of hope.
Thank you so much for your service to protect democracy mate - I solute you Sir from a retired cold war period UK Naval Officer 🤜🤛✌
Te felicito
This song and "99 Red Balloons" meant so much to those of us that lived through the Cold War. I'm not crying really.
I was in HS when 99 Luftballons was released and in college when this occurred.
The other track of the time is Stings song ... lets hope the Russians love their children too... Cannot remember the title yet.🤔
As for the whistling Beth think about the scene in the third man ... That sets the start of the cold war feel...and then think of this at what was approaching the end of the cold war period.
@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 Russians
@@clivestainlesssteelwomble7665 It's just called "Russians". Also, Billy Joel's "Leningrad" comes to mind.
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🤦🏻♂️ Thanks ...you know what its like when your brain rejects the obvious .🤷🏻♂️
This song still takes me back to fall of the wall and gives me chills.
Usually overlooked is Rudolph Schenker's vocal harmonies!
I don’t think this song would be the same without that whistle. When listening to the radio, the minute you hear that whistle you knew what song was coming on. As a Gulf War Vet I remember the version that was used as a dedication to those of us serving overseas and the families we left behind.
Boy.
I remember watching the Berlin wall come down..
For those of us that grew up during the cold War it was magic.
The World was filled with so much hope for a minute or two.
And now today.....it rips the heart to pieces hearing leaders threatening nuclear war.
Right. I am glad that at least my children are a grown up - I'd hate to have to try to explain to a 9-12 years old child what is going on and what the danger is. I guess in the 60es, 70es and 80es, we had great music to escape into and find peace and comfort in.
seeing this comment today... we're living hard times
I'm a huge Scorps fan. I've seen them live 15 times. They always are great live!
Hi Beth!
Thank you so much for listening to this song and raising the subject and talking about it now.
I'm writing this from Moscow, where all the sane people have been mourning for three days now about the death of Alexey Navalny in prison. It's like all hope died with him. What a nightmare it is that we're going through.
Sorry, English is not my native language, so I can't be as articulate as you.
You're such a beautiful heart, thank you again.
Песня действительно неплоха, я бы даже сказал пророческая. Надеюсь ветер перемен и дальше будет уносить всю скверну и предательство подальше из Москвы и России в ваш обожаемый Лондон и Берлин вместе с прахом несбыточных надежд и покойных МНОГО МНОГО лет и дальше. А в Россию и дальше будут приезжать многодетные семьи из этих стран плюс Канада и Австралия и др. , в страну где, по их высказываниям, есть перспективы и есть нормальное будущее для их детей. Гляньте только, какие они оставляют там дома и фермы в обмен на будущее своих детей. Плевали они на высокие зарплаты за Западе, обосновываясь здесь, на пустом месте. И еще, кошмаров надо было бояться в 2014 году в Киеве. Уже бы привыкли.
Condolences and much Love from Germany and hopes for a better future. Don't lose hope!
@@starryk79 Thank you so much ❤🩹❤🩹❤🩹 let's hope the wall falls one day again 🙏
I'm from Canada and English is my native language. If you didn't say that English wasn't your native language I never would have questioned it. Your English is better than many people who speak it as their primary language.
@@RyanPetrynka Omg, you made me blush, thank you for the compliment )) 🙏🙏
The Teutonic Terrors of metal! This band is unbelievably talented!! They are incredible live!!! The true masters of the rock ballad!!! My wife has passed…so now, it’s all about
“We’ll burn the sky”
lm 54. And l remember. And l have seen This Amazing band, Many times. This song is Relevant TODAY. "With great power comes great responsibility". “Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” Love your channel Beth. lm sorry/not sorry for the comment. ( l have tears with this song.....today and from the 1st time l heard it on the radio ) Thanks for the channel and You give me Faith in Music and the Love for it.
given current situations, it's a feeling,now, of hopelessness.."good" seems trampled by hate
The first concert my dad ever took me was Scorpions in 93. Backstage with Meet and Greet. I've later seen Bon Jovi, R.E.M., Prince and many others, but Scorpions still have a special place in my heart. I'll never give that drumstick I got away.
@@TeemarkConvair 60-80% of the population likely affected by long covid which expresses itself through a reduction in brain capacity from enflamed tissue, causing exhaustion, stress and anger. Give it another 5-10 years before medicine figures anything out about that... Until then, we're living in Idiocracy - Live Action Experience. That's life now.
Prior to 2/24/2022 I would never have thought this, but now I think this song has not aged very well. It seems that there was no fundamental change after all. Slava Ukraini!
@@sootikins Slava Ukraini!..!!!!!!! Good people MUST FORCE CHANGE...! Me and You, and l have failed in the last years but l have NEW Vision and its Clear. l will VOTE out and SPEAK out now. (and l have from 2/24/2002) l have friends in Lviv and Dnipro. l have a Kind but weak leader now but l BE DAMN, If a Con-Man/Traitor will take power again.
Back in the early 80s, Klaus lost his voice, and after two vocal cord surgeries and vocal therapy, his voice came back strong as ever.
Wind of change is one of the most beautiful and important songs ever written
It was the mid 1990's. My English ex wife and I were touring the Midlands, stopping for a pub lunch here and there.
Wherever we went, if there was a jukebox, someone would drop "Winds of Change" when they heard my American accent.
It was a word to me wise.
We also called it "Gorky Park".:)
You do know that the Skorpians are German, don't you?
I do not know if I am already ready to hear this song again. It was a massive hit way back in Germany and it was played everywhere until I got completely tired of it.
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As a Ukrainian, this song has a special meaning for me. I was born a few years before it was written and it was one of the signature tunes of my youth. And now that russia returned to its dictatorship ways and unleashed a terrible war upon our country, the band, as you mentioned, changed the lyrics to offer their support to Ukraine. Gestures like this, along with their advocacy, give us hope for a briggter future
the scorpions was a very dynamic group and they were so intense and fun to hear that once you heard their music you had to have more, kinda like a addiction that you couldn't satisfy.
If only life was as beautiful as this song. May it be....Peace!
Hiya Beth, so glad I found your channel tonight through this song - I was an engineer UK Naval Officer through the 80's and and early 90's and this song was played daily onboard ship. It was almost an anthem! Now I'm looking after my two beautiful Ukrainian fatherless neighbour families the best I can in south coast UK.
Beautiful song and beautifully presented - thanks Beth 👍😊
I had liked the Scorpions for some time for thier hard rock nearly metal songs, but this is the song where I realized Klaus Meine was an amazing singer. I wish I could like it twice but instead I will commment to appease the algorithm gods. Have a wonderful unit of time.
Klaus Meine is one of the greatest rock singers to ever be on stage. He can hold his own against a Mercury or Dio. The harder songs do not do his voice justice in many cases, but listen to In Trance, We'll burn the Sky, or Send me an Angel. His voice blows you out of the water. Still Loving You also demonstrates his amazing range and pitch, but that song's been as done to death as Wind of Change 😉
My father was in West Berlin before the wall went up during the airlift from '49-'51.
Thanks Beth. Bit of my history. I remember this song back in my early years after the fall of the wall. Even today this song gives me some emotions
It wasn't written after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but after a Rock Festival in Moscow in August 1989. He described the feeling of a new wind in the Sovjet Union, which led ultimatly in the German Unfication.
A deep & meaningful tune that has it's own beauty. One I shall keep playing.
Beautiful song. These guys were so lucky..they could whistle while they worked..honestly, no pun intended. Much better than our generation murmuring: hup 2-3-4 on the way to Vietnam..or our parents coming home weary from war only to see the wall go up. The solemness of this song and time..and the hope it restored was truly monumental. Today..not so much I'm afraid. Glad you enjoyed this wonderful song.
I was finishing base school (8 grade) when this song was top 1.
Best wishes from Poland.
As a child of late stage Cold War, this song still brings me to tears.
It’s a moment you can say, I remember when that happened.
I’m sorry it didn’t come bring peace in the long run.
This song is so epic. A few days before the wall fell me, my friend and our moms, visited the Reichstag and Tiergarten - Area along the wall. Surprisingly we found some plattform there installed where you could look over the wall, from a heightened view. I suppose it was the same platform where David Hasselhoff stood on, when he sung "Looking for Freedom". These were like the hymns for this special time, alltogether with "Freiheit" from Marius-Müller Westernhagen.
I truly love the fact that you love whistling 😊
Has always been one of my favorite songs since the first time I heard it
They were my first concert as a kid in 93. Face the Heat Tour. I still have a drumstick that they used.
Always nice to see people discover bands that I've known for all of my life. Wind of Change has always been a favorite of mine.
Loving this format and the balance between technical and emotional analysis. Great work!
Scorpions are one of the bands I like most, they are very romantic, congratulations babe for bringing this great performance from this beloved band.❤
This song is good listening it right now in the present as it was back then. It is a timeless song.
Very iconic song. I was just out of my teens when it came out, and was in the middle of it too having just been in the middle of one of the revolutions that ended communism in eastern Europe.
Scorpions are legends. They released a new album recently. :)
Glad to hear about the story behind this song. The fall of the Berlin wall was one of the biggest historical moments of that century. I would have never guessed this was a German band.
I think I was about 12 when this song came out and it gave me such chills. 30 odd years later and it still gives me those chills. Its absolutely amazing😊
Always moves me to tears.
When this songs was released I was teen and song bring so much hope from world peace and bright future. It was happy song. Now when cold war II is here and iron curtain has landed again it makes me sad. I remember seeing as kid those men who had fight in ww2 and wounded. Back then song gave hope that it wouldn't happen again.
I can't even picture this song without the whistle. It's absolutely iconic.
As a child of the Cold War, this song is such a tribute to my history. I grew up not wondering if I was going to face a nuclear holocaust, but only questioning when it was going to happen. I remember "The Day After", and could picture the "dust that was a city" in "99 Red Balloons". I was a senior in high school when the Berlin Wall fell. And, to quote another tribute song, "Right here, right now, there is no other place I'd rather be. Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history." There is so much hope in "Winds of Change", which has always been one of my favorites. Now, I just worry that we're slipping back, that Russia is wanting to rebuild the wall (and the idea of a border wall in Mexico honestly scares the hell out of me).
Walls make good neighbors
Brilliant analysis. i never noticed him moving his mike away to avoid the breathy sound.
The very first time I heard this was while watching a Filipino cover band in Singapore. They nailed it, (including the whistle) I had been at sea so didn't get to hear it before that.
I LOVE the Scorpions.
I rock with them, but this my favorite song.
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love the harmony and high pitch backing vocals
The first concert I ever attended was the Scorpions with Bon Jovi opening for them in Rochester, NY. 1984. I was a soldier stationed in Upstate NY. at the time and later was stationed in West Germany 1985 - 1988.
Hooah Cold War bro.
I really love that some of the science of music is coming back to the channel! Thanks Beth!
Another song that had a whistled part that went from placeholder to final song was Billy Joel's The Stranger. In the right place it's such an amazing sound.
Nice cover of a classic 80's song....try a reaction to THE MOODY BLUES..NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN. you will like the vocals in this one.
Song brings chills every time...its one of my all time best❤
As a guy from East Germany you recognize this song after milliseconds. Heard this oh so often, it's imprinted in my brain. Besides, I really appreciate the actual nerd level of this channel and how it is not only about the love of music, but goes much deeper with a friendly and lovely kind of dedication! Keep going.
Thank you!
You're listening to the voice, and the lyrics and message in the words, when you do your analysis of other works pay attention to this, and why some songs work, and others don't.
Think it is so interesting that it is a slow song, not a happy celebrating song. It was a cold war where the peace never seem to come (I guess, I'm born 1990).. And his emphasis on the word change i think is a way of saying "Now let there be real change". Fun fact as a toddler i was in Berlin just after the fall of the wall. In 2019 i was back on my own and it felt like home, where history and rebirth meets.
This song has always given me tingles and made me tear up like you Beth. So glad you analyzed it.
I remember watching the wall come down on the news in 1989. I was only 8 years old and didn’t understand what was going on but my parents explained it as best they could. Dad born in 1942 and mom in 1943 had grown up in the Soviet era and the wall going up. I remember dad saying he never thought that any of this would happen in his lifetime.
Que menina linda! Ave Maria tem homem com sorte nesse mundo. Parabéns Princesa você é maravilhosa.😊
I was about 9 years old when this song came about. I feel like I was born into such a positive attitude world and now its all gloom and doom. This song is so moving and Klaus Meine is one sure fine singer. Such a great song.
Very nice.
Maybe you could make a video about Sarah Conner " From Sarah with love".
She is one of the greatest voices in Germany
This song brought tears to my eyes when it first came out. The realization that humankind had won, and the evil that is communism was largely defeated, and relegated to the trash heap of history. That everyone had seen the truth…. Absolute tears of joy.
Now, it’s tears of rage and frustration that so many people are hellbent on bringing it back.
1989 goes down with 1848 and 1917-18 as the most revolutionary years in history. No other song can encompass that feeling like this one.
Beth, even though I have a plethora of your reactions that I am going to happily binge watch ….you and I have a long weekend in store, however you are far too exceptional as a singer in your own right, you are obviously well trained and artistically talented. I just love your original songs and your Chris Issac cover is as awesome as the original. I just can’t praise your talent enough.❤❤❤❤❤
Love The Scorpions my favorit band, this song as you said have a great message that still applies today and together with Black Eyed Peas: Where is the love, is two of the songs that best describe the need to love and togetherness in the world.
So, the reason they - and many Germans - were appreciative of Gorbachev was his refusal to send Russian troops to support East Germany forces trying to maintain the security of The Wall. Eric Honecker was losing control in October '89 and requested Gorbachev send forces to help him maintain control and power and Gorby refused. That was essentially the signal that Honecker's days were numbered.
Beth if you may notice during the chorus’ that the audience was miked from overhead and adds to the harmonies.
Daniel Balavoine - Mon fils, ma bataille
Astonishing and incredible artist/song ❤
I'm glad to be back enjoying your reactions. Been gone several months due to a heart attack!
There is a 1978 live album called The Tokyo Tapes. His singing here sounds very different. It could partly be I understand the lyrics better.
One of my favourite albums❤
I think he had an operation of the vocal chords or something and had to change his way of singing
I was stationed in Europe in the years leading up to this. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall was a great opportunity for a lasting peace which unfortunately we wasted.
Also one usually whistle when is hopeful or happy... never saw anyone sad or bitter whistle
I love your reactions. Thank you for doing them.
To quote Tay Zonday: "I move away from the mic so I can breathe".
Short version of this music, try the complete one...
they have this song in Spanish version too
If you like whistling, check out some old Roger Whittaker, especially Mexican Whistler, Skye Boat Song or Elizabethan Serenade.
It was the time of Russia's political opening to the West. The USSR had collapsed and the winds of change were blowing through Russia. The Scorpions made their first appearance in Moscow and for the first time there was no censorship. When they arrived in Moscow, the band wrote the song shortly before the performance. The Wind Of Change...
This song was MASSIVE when I was a kid.
Hi gorgeous Beth ❤ Love your reactions ❤
Change? You like this. All these rock and roll guys can sing.
Hermosa canción, llena de emociones y buenos deseos... Saludos Beth🤗🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Beth, Fortaleza, Brasil, te ama.manda um abraço pra mim, me chamo Pedrina .
Seen them in 2018, so good live
Incredible time in history 💪🙏🙏👍
I don't know which one is the most iconic. Wind of change or civil war by GNR x)
I’d say WOC because I think more people know it worldwide. I like CW better because I prefer Axl’s voice. Not a knock to Klaus at all, he is an amazing singer. It’s just a preference.
Una canción tan bonita y además de fondo en el vídeo de la caída del muro de Berlín la hace inmortal bien Beth 👏👏🍀🍀 porciento ese color militar te hace ver más hermosa 💙🌹
My favorite band ever ❤
LP whistles in her Lost On You and it's very incredible.
The original music video has some great historical video mixed in that shouldn't be missed.
this version that you have here is shorter than the original song, and offical video where there is anouther verse that is cut out of this performance and guitar solo as well.
Nicely done, Beth!
Thank you! 😊
Sometimes radio overplay diminishes a song greatly, and this must be no1. After giving a song a break of about twenty years you start to appreciate it again 😄
I love that you love this song!!
This song is special and heartfelt because it's about the Cold War and his dreams of what things could be like if that wall was gone (e.g. "like brothers"). That wall finally came down .......but now look what Putin has done. And look what just happened with 40 people in Russia killed ....by ISIS? It's just really sad and it makes this song even sadder. I was a teen in the 80s and so many of the songs of that time were about the Cold War. They now give new meaning today...especially Tears for Fears Everybody Wants to Rule the World. I feel that history is repeating itself. We take 10 steps forward, only to take 15 steps backward many years later.
You look like a Celtic princess ❤
After the Berlin wall and Roger Waters played the wall there, the scorpions were part of it. Part of that performance.
One of my top 3 bands. If you want to try another group, try stealheart. "She's gone". Look them up. Miljenko is one of the most underestimated vocalists ever.
Steelheart. That's a blast from the past! He has such epic vocals.
This is the shortened version of the song.
Hallo Beth
Es war meine Jugend und ich habe die Wende genau mitbekommen
Es war eine wunderbare Zeit der Wende zum Guten....wir waren Frei....und dieses wunderbare Lied passte genau
....PFEIFE den Wind der Wende....😊
Einen schönen Abend
Did they not do the solo in this version ?