Most of the past footage i remember seeing on the news when i was a kid. My father was in the military and my 4th grade teacher turned on the old black and white tv in the classroom in the start of class. The first thing i ever saw of a conflict was the Iraq- Iran war then in the mid 80's Tianemin square when one man stopped a mass of tanks coming after the protesters and unfortunately met his demise, but it was telecasted on the news worldwide and that time my father stationed in Korea and seen this on AFKN/Armed Forces Korea Network.
when this song came out, it was around the time of the end of the cold war. we all had hope that the world would become a better place. it was true for a while. but in the end, war, war never dies. 😔
For those of us who grew up on 'duck and cover' drills, convinced that WW3 would happen eventually, it seemed magical, that maybe, just maybe, things would be sane. Unfortunately, the feeling only lasted a few months.
This was played during the fall of the Berlin wall. Man, that takes me back. This brings back such memories that only those around at the time will understand.
Klaus Meine (vocals) of Scorpions wrote 'Wind of change' after the band played Russia (the USSR then) in 1988, a country where rock music had been banned since the 60's... Thousands of Russian fans attended the Scorpions' concerts there and for a German band to break big in Russia was a testament to the power of music to heal past wounds between people (Germany invaded Russia in the 1940's during World War II) ... Scorpions returned to Moscow in 1989 to play the Peace festival there alongside major bands like Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, etc... Klaus even gave a shout out to Gorky Park, a band that opened for Scorpions in Russia. When the Scorpions album 'Crazy World' was released in 1990, the Berlin wall came down and East & West Germany finally reunited after decades of separation... The members of Scorpions grew up in Hanover, West Germany and never thought they would see the wall come down. Scorpions have a long history and a diverse catalog of music... Hard rock songs that men enjoy and touching ballads for the women... and they became the most successful rock band from Germany. Formed in 1965 by Rudolf Schenker (guitar), who was the original singer, they would play English songs in their local Hanover scene because they loved the British 'beat rock' of the 60's... bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, etc... Rudolf became friends w/ a local singer Klaus Meine and even recommended his teen younger brother Michael Schenker on lead guitar for Klaus' band Mushrooms... Around 1970, Klaus' band broke up and he ended up joining Scorpions as the singer w/ Michael Schenker (lead guitar) ... Scorpions recorded a jazz/ space rock album 'Lonesome Crow' released in 1972 as their debut album, inspired by bands like Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream... However, Michael Schenker left Scorpions in 1973 to join UK rock band U.F.O. and became a guitar hero in the 70's. Despite the breakup, Klaus Meine (vocals) and Rudolf Schenker (guitar) reformed Scorpions in 1974 w/ Ulrich Roth (lead guitar, now Uli Jon Roth) and Francis Buccholz (bass) and release a more hard rock 2nd album 'Fly to the Rainbow'... Scorpions could only tour in Europe and released a few albums that did well but lacked promotion. Herman Rarebell (drums) joined Scorpions in 1977 and the band finally signed w/ a proper management and toured Japan for the first time in 1978, where they were welcomed like The Beatles and recorded a live album 'Tokyo Tapes'... Ulrich Roth quit the band in '78 and Michael Schenker briefly rejoined Scorpions and helped record their 1979 album 'Lovedrive'... before leaving again. Matthias Jabs (lead guitar) joined in 1979 and Scorpions toured the US for the first time as 'Lovedrive' became their first gold album there (half million copies sold)... Scorpions transitioned into a more 'arena rock' sound on their 1980 album 'Animal Magnetism' and it sold platinum in the US (1 million copies)... Unfortunately, vocalist Klaus Meine developed polyps on his vocals and needed surgery in 1981 that delayed another record... After a year, Klaus finally got his voice back and recorded the album 'Blackout' in 1982, which became another platinum hit. Scorpions dominated the 80's releasing the album 'Love at first sting' in 1984 and it sold 3x platinum in the US w/ their biggest hits 'Rock you like a hurricane'... and the ballad 'Still loving you'... They released another live album 'World Wide Live' in 1985. Platinum success still came in w/ the albums 'Savage Amusement' (1988) and 'Crazy World' (1990) as Scorpions toured the world repeatedly. However, the 90's decade brought major changes and Scorpions saw their 1993 album 'Face the heat' sell considerably less in the grunge/ alternative rock era... More setbacks came w/ bassist Francis Buccholz leaving Scorpions by 1992 and drummer Herman Rarebell leaving the band by 1995... Scorpions persisted w/ Ralph Rieckermann (bass) and American James Kottak (drums) joining... but the band's popularity was at an all-time low w/ subsequent records failing commercially. Pawel Maciwoda (bass) joined in 2004 and Scorpions started to see their popularity rise again w/ the albums 'Unbreakable'(2004)... 'Humanity Hour 1' (2007)... and 'Sting of the tail' (2010)... They contemplated a 'farewell tour' but w/ their albums and concert sales still rising, they decided to continue past 2014. In 2016, longtime drummer James Kottak was fired after struggling w/ alcoholism ... He was replaced by Mikkey Dee (drums), former Motorhead drummer... Sadly, James Kottak passed away in early 2024. Scorpions released the album 'Rock believer' in 2022, their 19th studio album... and are still touring today.
I was in the National Guard, and we trained for war against the Soviets. When the wall came down, there was a hope for change. And then we had Gulf War 1, and suddenly, we had a whole new enemy, and we haven't stopped yet. As a retired soldier, I can only hope for something better. Just listening waters my eyes.
This SONG is History! A divided Germany for over 40! Years!! Families were separated. Nobody believed that the Wall would fall...Sometimes Music can change the World - the wind of change can have a big impact
Yes definitely I asked for the zoo but I knew there was afew other songs tgey did I lived so ill delete my post and ask to add tge zoo to still loving you.
I was based in Berlin in the late 80s, leaving just one year before the wall came down. To say it was a surprise, at that time we though the only way that was coming down was if the Russians knocked it down on the way in. Then years later I was working in SE Asia. One of my friends was a native of Beijing, the images if the man in front of the tanks reminded me. She'd been 10 years old at the time of Tianamen Square, so one day I asked her for her view. She said "Oh, we heard some soldiers died". I was surprised but dropped it. But she'd picked up on my demeanour and pressed me. I told her we'd got a very different view in the West. Cut to her sat on the floor of my room with a laptop, crying her eyes out and utterly broken hearted as she researched outside of the great firewall of China and learned what had really happened. Some 14 years later. She remembered how they'd been kept in school and not been allowed to go home. How her father and his friends suddenly stopped congregating in the street in groups. It all began to make sense. That's how locked down China is. Lots of good imagary in that video.
I joined the USN in 85 out in 89. Stationed in Yokosuka, Japan 7th fleet. Played with the Soviets alot. Got pictures of the east coast of Russia and Soviet ships and helos. Didn't want to be in Germany defending the Fulda Gap with the army. We knew you guys were like us, just a speed bump for the Russians if the Ballon went up.
@@Pops-km8xt The Soviet airforce would buzz Berlin at mach speed and create sonic booms on a regular basis. They would also take over Spandau prison one month in four whilst Hess was still alive. He conveniently died whilst the US was in control of the prison. Which was demolished immediately. It was gone the week after. But yeah, we were very much considered a speed bump in Berlin. We'd have done well to last 48 hours if it had kicked off. prior to that I had been in an armoured brigade as part of 4th Armd Div. We were expected to take 95% casualties slowing the Soviets down enough for reinforcement to arrive in sufficient numbers to force them back. Not great numbers. It was much betterer when I went to the Airborne Brigade and became part of the reinforcement 😁.
I saw them in Madrid this year (july 16th). You cannot imagine how many energy they still having (Klaus Meine the vocalist is 76 years old or Matthias Jabs the guitarist 68). They are pure rockstar souls. Pure legend!!
Definitely a must listen "Rock You Like a Hurricane".🤘 There are also wonderful ballads “Still Love You”, “Send Me an Angel". Scorpions - wonderful band!
This song documents the fall of the Berlin wall, the fall of the USSR, the end of the Cold War, and was first performed in Russia after the collapse of the USSR and, what was at the time, the closing of the aggression between the west and the USSR. It was a song for peace, a song of hope for the future, a hope and a future that we are squandering now. This song was about closing the cultural gap between the people of the USSSR and the west. The most powerful line in then song is "let your balalaika sing like my guitar wants to sing", meaning let your voice for peace in harmony with ours for peace. Too bad we couldn't keep that melody going. The first scene is the building of the Berlin wall. The final scenes are tearing down that wall. It's a song for peace and harmony. I still weep every time I hear this song for a future that never transpired.
Fun Fact: As of 2022, the Scorpions still perform the song live but with lyrical changes in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The opening lines are changed to "Now listen to my heart / It says Ukrainia, waiting for the wind to change." Meine stated, "It's not the time with this terrible war in Ukraine raging on, it's not the time to romanticize Russia."
It's a time to shut out ignorance and see the real truth and the truth is Russia who's SMO is to defeat Ukrainian neo-Nazis and the hatred that is driven on by the US deep state. Russia's dream of a better future lives on untarnished by Banderas disgusting legacy!
The problem with keeping Russia as an enemy is that the ultra rich elitists are still pulling the strings of NATO/USA & thus causing wars to still happen. When Putin was first elected president of Russia he asked if they could join NATO, of course he was turned down as elitists wish to have a country to be an enemy. The reason that Russia invaded Ukraine is NATO/USA built bio-weapons labs in Ukraine at the Russian border.
They did songs like Rock You Like a Hurricane, but they also did songs like this one, and Still Loving You. Scorpions was really a hell of a group. And yeah, if you know about the Berlin Wall, then you really get a kick in the heart from this video.
This song hits me in a different way. I lost both of my parents in 2022 at the age of 30 while trying to graduate from university. Having to empty my childhood home, knowing I'll never see them again, all the memories I had there. Knowing, that it was also a semi-goodbye to the town I grew up in, having little reason to visit there other than my parents and relatives graves. Man. Winds of change.
As a 22 year old Brit living and working in the Soviet Union in 1970 I remember one summer evening walking down to Gorky Park and meeting the children of tomorrow. Those young Soviets changed my life forever for good. Their hopes and dreams for a better future were answered and live on today. Sadly politics and left over hatred still abound and fester that casts a dark shadow today and unless resolved quickly will sadly blight our children for a generation...Hopefully truth will prevail and wonderful music and lyrics like 'Winds of Change' will herald more amicable times.
In the summer of 89 me and some friends took a detour through East-Germany for a vacation in Austria. Wow what a different country it was compared to western civilisation. Everything was at least 40 years behind and super controlled by authorities. Never forgetting this. This were short before the Berlin-wall came down and the cold war ended. Wind of change from Scorpions came out in right time after this happening. I was 31 years old and the world and future seemed very bright for a long time. Unfortunately, today is not the same. 😞 Stacey, you and your comments spread som light and hope! 🤗👍😊
I remember watching the wall come down and my mom crying. I didn't understand the impact or the meaning at the time. But her entire life had been in the shadow of the fear of nuclear annihilation. And the fear was over.
Another classic song from my younger years, still remember the day The Wall came down and I got the same shiver and feeling the first time I heard this song. Even now I can almost feel the hair on the back of my neck standing up thinking and listening to this. Winds of Change, Rock You like a Hurricane, Still Loving You and Send Me An Angel all need to be on a playlist somewhere for everyone. I still have a fragment of the Berlin Wall as a momento of history.
I was shocked as you mention it's a new band for you !!!! I'm a guy who was born in 2022 and I don't know why I loved 80's 90's songs and Scorpion is one my favourite band ❤ never get tired of watching your reactions video.
So first of all as a German thank you for listening to in my opinion our greatest band ever if you ask me! So the singer has one of the purest voices you ll ever hear but there are 2 songs of the scorpions particularly: 1. Still loving you (the longer lyric video is the best one, it got like 85 million views) and 2. Send me an angel. And after you listened and hopefully reacted to both of these masterpieces you ll know what I mean. Greetings from Germany. Oh and this song was about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the following fall of the Soviet Union. I’m 31 so I wasn’t around yet when the wall got torn down but i know what significance this song had for the people back then but as you said even now you can take it as a positive
As Russian that is a special song for me and my country. Bitter sweet - is perfect words to explain this feeling. I remember when about five years ago there was a show in Gorky Park - tons of people were singing this song. We felt hope, unity... Sweet summer chidren - we couldn't imagine what happens to us in a very few years
This song takes me back to being stationed in West Germany. After a couple years there, we found out one November night that the wall was coming down, the countries were reunited, and the cold war was over. When hearing this song in German clubs, most people were very moved by it. We were reminded that a grave injustice had finally been righted. It is 35 years later now, and each time I hear this song, I still see the people tearing the wall down, the Pershing missile site being dismantled, and the flood of Trabi's puffing smoke crossing over what was no longer a border. Good job on this one.
For those of us alive at that moment in time when the Berlin wall came down it was in fact a moment when all possibilities seemed reachable. After decades of the Cold War with the Soviet Union to see it finally break apart, the Berlin Wall come down, and less than a year later East and West Berlin reunite was something no one thought they'd ever see. It was just a moment but good lord what a moment. There is another reactor channel, Kerry Tries it, she is a Russian woman that reacted to this song and she hadn't heard it. Definitely worth watching.
Klaus Meine said once, getting invited to the soviet union at the late 1980's, as the west-german son of a german WW2 soldier, was such a big thing, that he started believing the world could change. So he wrote wind of change at a moscow trip. Me, the grandson of a german WW2 soldier, born (1982) and still living in south-west germany, can relate that statement
The song is from '91...shortly after the borders and walls in Germany came down. The Scorpions are a German band. So German, in fact, that during their first American tour, while visiting with a Seattle FM radio station...the station had to provide an interpreter for the vocalist! Oh, you ask. How do they sing in English? English vocal coaches! 😂 This song always brings to mind the Fall of the Berlin Wall. No one better to sing of hope than a handful of young men who grew up in a country divided, literally. To be able to...after some thirty+ years...travel to see family and friends that have been denied to you for decades...I cannot imagine. The Scorpions hit the nail on the head with this beautifully crafted ballad.
I been stationed in Seedorf in 1988/1991 in de Dutch army in a recon unit and remember the take down of de Berlin Wall and this song off the Scorpions ... Its a powerful song and always love all the song's of the Scorpions ... Danke dar für 🇳🇱🇩🇪
@@joemachine4714 Thanks my friend , i've met a lot of US soldiers on the NAVO-oefenterrein Bergen-Hohne with the shooting series between the German, British, US and the Dutch Cavalerie ( tanks, M113 , M109 and other units, weapons. Also nice and friendly people. I never been in the US ... Hope some day . Regards from the nordern point of Holland 🇳🇱 .
This was a beautiful moment in time. The wall came down. Moscow reached a hand towards the west. The cold war ended. People were filled with hope. It really looked like the wind of change was upon us. Unfortunately it didn't last. We're right back where we started. But that makes this song even more powerful now. It tells us, look at what we hoped for for the future. It's not too late. Learn from the past.
Moskva is the Russian for Moscow and is the name of the city and the river that runs through it. The lead singer of Scorpions says that he wrote the song one evening whilst they were in the city performing concerts, i think the first time a West German band had been allowed to perform in Russia (then part of the Soviet Union) with the increasing openness and freedoms that were becoming available in Russia under the Russian premier Mikael Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika (meaning restructuring and openness and transparency, relating to reforms being made in Russia at the time, which was still under communism). He says he wrote the songs whilst looking down on the Moskva River. Gorky Park is a park in the city where there is a music center founded by Stas Namin of the rock band Gorky Park. I also love the kind in the song that says "Let your balalaika sing, what my guitar wants to say", the balalaika being a Russian triangular stringed instrument similar to a guitar (that i first saw when watching the amazing 1960s David Lean directed film Dr Zhivago, an epic based on the novel by Boris Pasternak, i think there main tune of them movie may include the instrument, a movie about a doctor and his travails during the Russian revolution, it's a love story really i think, i think you'd love it).
Hello Stacey, greetings from Finland and thanks for all the songs and comments! And congrats for 100k! Originally I loved your comments and reactions for Pink Floyd songs, thats the band who got me subscribe your channel and got me into era of rock in the early 80s. All the other bands and songs are familiar to me too, also the Scorpions. I dont know if I can propose songs here or where but I'd like to see and hear reactions to Sentenced, a finnish metal band that put end to their career already in 2006. Melodic heavy metal with Miika Tenkula (the guitarist and songwriter who passed away way too early in 2005). They made lots of albums and their last song from their last album in the last concert End of the Road. If you comment instrumental songs, Mourn (from Sentenced also) would be cool too. Thanks and have a great weekend!
Singer and author of the song Klaus Meine grew up in former West Germany not far from border to East Germany. When the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapsing Klaus was in Moscow. There's a river running through with the same name as the city and Klaus was just walking along it when he got the inspiration for the lyrics. It begins with "i follow the Moskva (Russian name) down to Gorky Park and listening to the wind of change".
The Scorpions being a German band have a unique and powerful view of the falling of the Berlin Wall. In my opinion one of the great not only songs but videos of all time
War is something you will never forget. The conflict might end but it never leaves the soldier. The sights and smells never leave. I am glad you enjoyed the song and saw the significance.
This song is about the reunification of Germany after over 40 years and the hope that this was a groundbreaking day for future generations. In love with 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.
This is the song of and ENTIRE generation of people around the world, but most especially for the people of Germany and the rest of Europe who were all on the frontlines of the Cold War for 45 years. I use this song to teach about the importance and symbolism of the fall of the Berlin Wall and how it meant the reuniting of families who were split apart for decades as the Soviet Union began its dissolution. There was so much hope and optimism when that wall came down. I remember as a kid in like 3rd grade coming home from school one November day in 1989 and turning on the television to find EVERY. SINGLE. CHANNEL! showing live footage of the people standing on the top of the wall, using hammers and circular saws to start bringing it down. Even MTV stopped all their programming to report the news of this and show the live feed. If not for 9/11, it would have been up there as probably the most memorable day of my lifetime from a historical standpoint, with the election of Barack Obama as president (although, who can say what would've happened with that if not for 9/11 and all) being a close second for the historical significance. Now getting older, I'm hearing this song and seeing those moments and the people and it brings so many emotions and tears for how freeing that moment must have been for them. It's a truly beautiful song and thing to see.
This song was the Eastern Europe anthem in that time. After 1989, the entire region was in a constant change. For the good or for not that good. People were living, sensing and embracing freedom like something they have never seen before. This song embodies thru lyrics and music what we all felt back then. Also, feeling like this song needs to be heard today because of our current conflict. This is such a beautiful melody and sentiment. I pray the new children of tomorrow may still have dreams to share.
I'm old enough to remember the morning the world woke up to barbed wire having been erected overnight cutting through Berlin to form what would become the Berlin Wall. When the Soviet Union and the Eastern Block imploded in 1989 we all got to see that same wall being torn down by the FREEDOM of the East German and all German people. The guy who commented below about the views in the video of the Berlin Wall and The Scorpions being a German band really hits hard in this song. I never thought I'd live long enough to see that wall torn down. The Scorpions did so many great songs during their run. They had a sound that set them apart from all the other bands. They were outstanding.
Great reaction Stacey! You might not fully appreciate how important and poignant this song was when it came out (but you seem to get it!). The Scorpions, coming from Germany, were witnessing first hand the Berlin Wall coming down. The Iron Curtain, separating Western Europe from the East was being lifted - families that had been separated for decades were reunited - there was an air of hope, peace...a wind of change! If only that change could last. Alas, we need that wind to appear again...perhaps more than ever! Future Scorpions to check: Still Loving You (fantastic 80's power ballad), The Zoo, No One Like You, The Sails Of Charon, Rock You Like A Hurricane, Lovedrive, Big City Nights...so many great tracks! Cheers from Canada, eh!
My mom's side of the family is from Germany. My great grandfather was drafted into the Third Reich during WWII and was killed on the Western Front in Russia. After his death, they were able to make it to America but went back to Germany after the war. My uncle has a piece of the Berlin Wall that was passed down to him from when they went back to Germany. Germany is such a beautiful country now, especially the food and beer!
I was an M60 machine gunner in the 82nd ABN. When I was needed, I was sent to the 3rd Infantry division where I was The company commanders track driver. We really all needed a wind of change!
A beautiful reaction to a beautiful song... One aspect of displaying the lyrics on the screen during a music video is that it can detract from the experience of simply listening. When you read the lyrics, your mind engages in reading while your ears are trying to absorb the music, which can take away from the overall auditory experience. Beautiful and articulate way of talking about how relevant the song is today w/o getting political. :) Thank you for reacting to this song.
Hello Stacey, thanks so much for you very moving words. As a German this song is means so much. It is the Hymn that tear down the Berlin Wall. When East and West Germany come together this song was the National Anthem. This song means so much for my generation because we witness the fall of the wall. Im very emotional about that song it means so much.
I’m glad you recognize the gravity of the times. And yes we may be repeating those times. But if you were alive & old enough to remember, those were victorious times. Here we go again!
Great band, this is one of their most famous songs, it heralds the fall of the Berlin Wall 3 decades+ ago. The Scorpions are a German band and this song meant so much to them and everyone in Europe. It became a monster hit, with a billion views. I have been a Scorpions fan since we stumbled into their debut album, Lonesome Crow, in 1970. Bought it for the cover and was I ever glad when I brought it home. A 16 year old Michael Schenker going berserk on lead guitar made me and all I hung with instant fans. He left to join UFO (You need to hear that band too, just as good) but they brought on Uli Jon Roth for several fabulous albums as they crafted their sound, hard rock with their own style with touches of prog and metal. After Uli left in 78, Michael Schenker briefly rejoined them before Klaus Meine was brought in as their permanent lead guitarist to go with founding member Rudolf Schenker (Michael's older brother) who holds down the rhythm but does lead about a third of the time, one of the best at what he does. Klaus Meine is the other founding member as lead vocalist and awesome frontman. They have tons of great music in many eras going on still, they have toured this year, if you have a chance, do see them! For reactions, for me, I would do The Zoo next. It is off the great Animal Magnetism album, that album and the one before it, Lovedrive, and the one after, Blackout, are filled with incredible bangers. Do the title track from those three albums and you will know why these guys are utter legends, godfathers of Hard Rock who have bangers and ballads for your listening pleasure! Lastly, saw them a dozen times, any live of theirs is a guaranteed banger. You have taken the first step down a deep rabbit hole. Now we got to get you listening to UFO, do Rock Bottom and listen in wonder to Michael Schenker and his signature song and solo. Enjoy!!! 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶🔥
This song stands for political change like no other: “Wind Of Change” became an anthem in the early 90s. Klaus Meine came up with the idea for the song during the Scorpions' performance at the “Moscow Music Peace Festival” on August 13, 1989, when the band played together with acts such as Ozzy Osbourne and Bon Jovi in front of 260,000 fans at the Lenin Stadium.
This has a sad melody but it inspired hope in an emotional way. Now when I hear it I am sad because even those the wall is gone, there are still many unseen walls that keep the world in a constant fight for freedom from violence and oppression.
Another hard-hitting song (although it falls more into a soft-rock category) which presaged the end of the Cold War is Billy Joel's "Leningrad". He wrote it in 1987 after his own tour of the then-Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall fell just two years later. The Scorpions wrote and released this song in 1990.
I learned to whistle with this song! I don't remember how old I was. I was alone, watching TV and this video came on. It was the first time I heard a singer starting a song with a whistle and I tried to imitate him and I was so proud when I realised I was able to do that!
The joy of those there when the wall came down gave me so much hope. There are so many reasons to be cynical. I do my best to hold on to hope. Thank you for your reaction.
I was in the Army stationed in Germany when the Berlin wall came down. It was a sureal moment watching East and west Germany unite. Gives me goosebumps to this day
6:00. I remember crying in my room as a 16 year old kid as the Berlin Wall was being taken down. I was finally going to be able to see my Great Grandmother who was behind the wall for 30 years.
This song was on the air during the change in Eastern Europe in 1989. But for us in East Germany, another song is ingrained in our memories as the song that symbolizes this time. It's a love song published in 1987 by the East German band Karussell and called Als ich fortging. A youth program produced an MV for the song in 1989 and the visuals were right on point with what happened at this time. Many people tried to leave East Germany through the West German embassy in Prague or crossing the border from Hungary to Austria.
Stacey, great German band, it’s great you know about the history of this song and the Berlin Wall. I recommend listening to ‘Still Loving You’. Love your reactions!
I went to Germany a year after the wall came down. I had family stationed in Germany so I went over to spend Christmas and New Years with them. We didn't make it to Berlin but I would have liked to have visited at the time as it was a very interesting time in the world back then.
AMEN. I was 10 when the world woke up to barbed wire having been erected thru Berlin to start the Berlin Wall. People today don't understand what real oppression is. The Jack Boot of the old Soviet Union and the Eastern Block on your throat was oppression.
I was 10 years old when the wall came down. Lived 35kms from the border. It was a strange feeling that there was a 2nd germany not far away. We went to visit penpal friedn sof my sister between christmas and new year 1989. it was so strange to cross the border, which at that point was still intact and as soon as we crossed it, it was a completeley different country even the air smelled different. Always when I hear this song all these memories come back.
Wind of Change is kinda a german anthem. At least in the Rock/Metal scene. Everyone can scream the lyrics at the top of their lungs. Its even more beautfiul cause it has such a deep meaning regarding the german history.
I was station in Bad Kissigen , Germany in 1987 when the wall came down, shortly after I was transfer to Ft. Sill, OK to take a course for senior Non Commissioned Officers. During the end of my school Iraq invaded Kuwait and 30 days later I was in Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield and Desert Storm. This song came out around the time I came back and I actually cried listening to it watching the video. Thanks for reacting, I saw your emotions that stitred inside you.🙏🏼🌹💕
I was stationed in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down. We were on standby during the wall coming down. No one had a clue if the shit was going to hit the fan or not.
I grew up in this time. I was 6 years old when the wall came down and I remember how euphoric people were. Everyone was hoping that history would take a turn for peace and a better world. Francis Fukuyama, a political scientist, even wrote a paper, proposing we had reached “the end of history”. The video also shows some footage of the war in Iraq after Saddam Hussein opted to invade Kuwait. This was the first dent in that belief already. There was a debate that Germany smash should take part (we bought ourselves out in the end) and I remember my grandma being terribly afraid that war would be back. She was born in 1918, the last year of world war 1.
There are songs that are classics, there are songs that will live on forever ...and then there's this song. Fore those of us that were alive and old enough back then, it's... yeah, end of an era is putting it mildly.
I love your reaction to the song. I'm Russian (57 yo now), and I'm a witness of what happened in Soviet Union at the time "Wind Of Change" was written and recorded. And I think that's amazing that someone from quite different and younger generation still can react to this song the way you did... As to recommendations for your future reactions, I'd like to suggest Living Colour's "Love Rears Its Ugly Head"
This came out somewhere around 1991. I saw them on the tour they did to support this album. This song hits hard. I've been a history buff and a political wonk since I was a kid, and when the Berlin Wall came down, I was in middle school; when the USSR collapsed, I was in high school. I went on to study political science at university. I remember thinking that the end of the Cold War gave us a profoundly amazing opportunity to learn from the past without digging out of radioactive rubble. I also remember wondering if that moment would be the moment when we shook off the sins of our fathers and moved forward together in peace and harmony, or if it would be just like the eye of a storm. It would be calm for a moment right before humanity returned to stupidity. A bloody hell we sure did. Real talk: we have a candidate running for president who is an admirer of and (he thinks) a friend of Vladimir Putin. Putin was in Germany when the wall came down. He was very public in his lament that Moscow did not order the armored division stationed in East Berlin to wipe them out. Conflict is always caused by and benefits the same people.
They updated the song to reflect the conflict in the Ukraine for their live performances and it is quite moving. I couldn't keep a dry eye when I saw them live last year. Hard to believe that Scorpions is now entering their 60th anniversary tour. Great band got to see hem live serveral times.
Agree. My 2 uncles faught in Europe in WW II against (2) mad-men. UA Must Stand and America ISNT doing enough. ( American) and l have friends in UA. They only want, what WE have. "Evil is powerless, IF the good are un-afraid " RR ....."l blessed YOU, to BLESS others" God
For we old Gen Xers, children of the Cold War, this song, along with all the scenes from the video exemplify the raw emotion of joy and relief we felt as at the time we thought all the world was saved and we were entering a time of healing.
it was released in 1990. I was able to go to a show for that Tour as a teenager. It was a great show. I don't know how we got from there to where we are today.
the whistle was something the singer used to express his musical ideas/concept to the guitar players during songwriting session and fortunately they kept in in
The song “Wind of change” by the Scorpions was written under the impression of the musicians’ visit to the USSR in 1988 and the Moscow Music Peace Festival in 1989. Here is the song “Still Love You” from this concert, which featured Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, etc.: ua-cam.com/video/7DcjIVTS1Gs/v-deo.htmlsi=jpxz9UMBAO3nS8O5 Original clip: ua-cam.com/video/7pOr3dBFAeY/v-deo.htmlsi=GebObaPug9dX8wM9
I still get tears in my eyes, when listening to this Song ; you must know my Roots come the Island Rugen (Esat Germany) Look at all these people dressed in the cheapestst low quality clothes, suppressed for soooo many years .. and now they are ALL FREE, all of a sudden! Treating our Brothers and Sisters so bad, with no Voice at all was extremely painful. Seeing them finally released is ... AMAZING! That all happend end of 1989 to 1990 - HISTORICAL! *i forgot one thing: THANK YOU!
this song was at a pivotal time in history in 1990 as The Berlin Wall came down, "yes that's what is being torn sown in the video", and just so happened while I was a freshman in High school studying Eastern Europe in World Geography .It seemed like every week new countries were being born from once sovreign nations overtaken by the Soviet Union, and in that class we drew maps almost every day .For many countries it was an anthem as they for the first time in decades experienced democracy.
Wind of Change. This was during the fall of the Berlin Wall. President Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union and Pope John Paul II. When the Berlin Wall fell, it ended the Soviet Union and Russia became a fledgling democracy again.
The Scorpions, a German band from Hannover, performed 'In the Flesh?' and 'In the Flesh' when Roger Waters staged 'The Wall' on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin after the Berlin Wall came down in 1990 and Germany was reunited again after 45 of separation. They rolled onto the giant stage on top of a trailer that was pulled by a Truck. This event was broadcasted live on television and Radio. I was there and one of the 500,000 people in the audience.
Well in the backdrop of perestroika & cold war era, you can call this Rudloph Schenker composition as a classic from Scorpions, but songs like "When The smoke is going down, Born to touch our feelings, Always Somewhere, Holiday, Still Loving You, Rock You like a Hurricane, No one like you" are gems from late 70's to mid 80's. Again albums like In trance and Love at first Sting are treasure troves !
Key references in the lyrics: [1] "Moskva" is the Russian name for both Moscow and a river that runs through Moscow. Klaus is referring to the river. [2] "Gorky Park" is a major park in Moscow along the Moskva River. [3] "Balalaika" is a Russian guitar-like instrument with a triangular body and (usually) three strings.
It is worth noting that the Scorpions are a German band. Knowing this adds to the impact of the scenes of the Berlin Wall falling.
Amen to that man. From another Greg
u know the hoff and the hoff alone brought that wall down ;)
Most of the past footage i remember seeing on the news when i was a kid. My father was in the military and my 4th grade teacher turned on the old black and white tv in the classroom in the start of class. The first thing i ever saw of a conflict was the Iraq- Iran war then in the mid 80's Tianemin square when one man stopped a mass of tanks coming after the protesters and unfortunately met his demise, but it was telecasted on the news worldwide and that time my father stationed in Korea and seen this on AFKN/Armed Forces Korea Network.
Liebe die ganze Menschheit. Wir sind eins.✌❤
@@notbadbros7814 No, the scorpions did that ;)
when this song came out, it was around the time of the end of the cold war. we all had hope that the world would become a better place. it was true for a while. but in the end, war, war never dies. 😔
Sadly, the only time there will be no more war is when there are no more humans. It's just who we are.
Yes, peace can't be allowed by the devils that run the place
War, war never changes.
Leonard Cohen: "And for a second, my mind was at ease...
For those of us who grew up on 'duck and cover' drills, convinced that WW3 would happen eventually, it seemed magical, that maybe, just maybe, things would be sane. Unfortunately, the feeling only lasted a few months.
This was played during the fall of the Berlin wall. Man, that takes me back. This brings back such memories that only those around at the time will understand.
Can you believe that it was 35 years ago? It seems like yesterday
The anthem to a future that never happened.... This song still gets me every time.
I still get tears streaming down my face when I hear this song even to this day.
Very well said.
Klaus Meine (vocals) of Scorpions wrote 'Wind of change' after the band played Russia (the USSR then) in 1988, a country where rock music had been banned since the 60's... Thousands of Russian fans attended the Scorpions' concerts there and for a German band to break big in Russia was a testament to the power of music to heal past wounds between people (Germany invaded Russia in the 1940's during World War II) ... Scorpions returned to Moscow in 1989 to play the Peace festival there alongside major bands like Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, etc... Klaus even gave a shout out to Gorky Park, a band that opened for Scorpions in Russia.
When the Scorpions album 'Crazy World' was released in 1990, the Berlin wall came down and East & West Germany finally reunited after decades of separation... The members of Scorpions grew up in Hanover, West Germany and never thought they would see the wall come down.
Scorpions have a long history and a diverse catalog of music... Hard rock songs that men enjoy and touching ballads for the women... and they became the most successful rock band from Germany. Formed in 1965 by Rudolf Schenker (guitar), who was the original singer, they would play English songs in their local Hanover scene because they loved the British 'beat rock' of the 60's... bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, etc... Rudolf became friends w/ a local singer Klaus Meine and even recommended his teen younger brother Michael Schenker on lead guitar for Klaus' band Mushrooms... Around 1970, Klaus' band broke up and he ended up joining Scorpions as the singer w/ Michael Schenker (lead guitar) ... Scorpions recorded a jazz/ space rock album 'Lonesome Crow' released in 1972 as their debut album, inspired by bands like Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream... However, Michael Schenker left Scorpions in 1973 to join UK rock band U.F.O. and became a guitar hero in the 70's.
Despite the breakup, Klaus Meine (vocals) and Rudolf Schenker (guitar) reformed Scorpions in 1974 w/ Ulrich Roth (lead guitar, now Uli Jon Roth) and Francis Buccholz (bass) and release a more hard rock 2nd album 'Fly to the Rainbow'... Scorpions could only tour in Europe and released a few albums that did well but lacked promotion. Herman Rarebell (drums) joined Scorpions in 1977 and the band finally signed w/ a proper management and toured Japan for the first time in 1978, where they were welcomed like The Beatles and recorded a live album 'Tokyo Tapes'... Ulrich Roth quit the band in '78 and Michael Schenker briefly rejoined Scorpions and helped record their 1979 album 'Lovedrive'... before leaving again.
Matthias Jabs (lead guitar) joined in 1979 and Scorpions toured the US for the first time as 'Lovedrive' became their first gold album there (half million copies sold)... Scorpions transitioned into a more 'arena rock' sound on their 1980 album 'Animal Magnetism' and it sold platinum in the US (1 million copies)... Unfortunately, vocalist Klaus Meine developed polyps on his vocals and needed surgery in 1981 that delayed another record... After a year, Klaus finally got his voice back and recorded the album 'Blackout' in 1982, which became another platinum hit.
Scorpions dominated the 80's releasing the album 'Love at first sting' in 1984 and it sold 3x platinum in the US w/ their biggest hits 'Rock you like a hurricane'... and the ballad 'Still loving you'... They released another live album 'World Wide Live' in 1985. Platinum success still came in w/ the albums 'Savage Amusement' (1988) and 'Crazy World' (1990) as Scorpions toured the world repeatedly.
However, the 90's decade brought major changes and Scorpions saw their 1993 album 'Face the heat' sell considerably less in the grunge/ alternative rock era... More setbacks came w/ bassist Francis Buccholz leaving Scorpions by 1992 and drummer Herman Rarebell leaving the band by 1995... Scorpions persisted w/ Ralph Rieckermann (bass) and American James Kottak (drums) joining... but the band's popularity was at an all-time low w/ subsequent records failing commercially.
Pawel Maciwoda (bass) joined in 2004 and Scorpions started to see their popularity rise again w/ the albums 'Unbreakable'(2004)... 'Humanity Hour 1' (2007)... and 'Sting of the tail' (2010)... They contemplated a 'farewell tour' but w/ their albums and concert sales still rising, they decided to continue past 2014.
In 2016, longtime drummer James Kottak was fired after struggling w/ alcoholism ... He was replaced by Mikkey Dee (drums), former Motorhead drummer... Sadly, James Kottak passed away in early 2024.
Scorpions released the album 'Rock believer' in 2022, their 19th studio album... and are still touring today.
Another Great band that played the former Soviet Union was the Great URIAH HEEP.
I was in the National Guard, and we trained for war against the Soviets. When the wall came down, there was a hope for change. And then we had Gulf War 1, and suddenly, we had a whole new enemy, and we haven't stopped yet. As a retired soldier, I can only hope for something better. Just listening waters my eyes.
Thank you for your SERVICE…my nephew is a MARINE. 🙏🏽♥️🕊️
This SONG is History! A divided Germany for over 40! Years!! Families were separated. Nobody believed that the Wall would fall...Sometimes Music can change the World - the wind of change can have a big impact
Still Loving You by the Scorpions is also an incredible ballad
Way better.
Yes definitely I asked for the zoo but I knew there was afew other songs tgey did I lived so ill delete my post and ask to add tge zoo to still loving you.
@@lydiasefton4780 The Zoo is incredible as well
@@lydiasefton4780 Zoo's good ,really good, why not?
the band is called Scorpions, not "the" scorpions.
I was based in Berlin in the late 80s, leaving just one year before the wall came down. To say it was a surprise, at that time we though the only way that was coming down was if the Russians knocked it down on the way in. Then years later I was working in SE Asia. One of my friends was a native of Beijing, the images if the man in front of the tanks reminded me. She'd been 10 years old at the time of Tianamen Square, so one day I asked her for her view. She said "Oh, we heard some soldiers died". I was surprised but dropped it. But she'd picked up on my demeanour and pressed me. I told her we'd got a very different view in the West. Cut to her sat on the floor of my room with a laptop, crying her eyes out and utterly broken hearted as she researched outside of the great firewall of China and learned what had really happened. Some 14 years later. She remembered how they'd been kept in school and not been allowed to go home. How her father
and his friends suddenly stopped congregating in the street in groups. It all began to make sense. That's how locked down China is.
Lots of good imagary in that video.
I joined the USN in 85 out in 89. Stationed in Yokosuka, Japan 7th fleet. Played with the Soviets alot. Got pictures of the east coast of Russia and Soviet ships and helos. Didn't want to be in Germany defending the Fulda Gap with the army. We knew you guys were like us, just a speed bump for the Russians if the Ballon went up.
@@Pops-km8xt The Soviet airforce would buzz Berlin at mach speed and create sonic booms on a regular basis. They would also take over Spandau prison one month in four whilst Hess was still alive. He conveniently died whilst the US was in control of the prison. Which was demolished immediately. It was gone the week after. But yeah, we were very much considered a speed bump in Berlin. We'd have done well to last 48 hours if it had kicked off. prior to that I had been in an armoured brigade as part of 4th Armd Div. We were expected to take 95% casualties slowing the Soviets down enough for reinforcement to arrive in sufficient numbers to force them back. Not great numbers. It was much betterer when I went to the Airborne Brigade and became part of the reinforcement 😁.
No singers can sing like him. Very sharp and beautiful voice. Scorpions always the best.
I saw them in Madrid this year (july 16th). You cannot imagine how many energy they still having (Klaus Meine the vocalist is 76 years old or Matthias Jabs the guitarist 68). They are pure rockstar souls. Pure legend!!
1989 was a really important year for the whole world. I will remember those days of hope forever.
I was born in 89 so I agree with it being a really important year for the world
Definitely a must listen "Rock You Like a Hurricane".🤘
There are also wonderful ballads “Still Love You”, “Send Me an Angel".
Scorpions - wonderful band!
This song documents the fall of the Berlin wall, the fall of the USSR, the end of the Cold War, and was first performed in Russia after the collapse of the USSR and, what was at the time, the closing of the aggression between the west and the USSR. It was a song for peace, a song of hope for the future, a hope and a future that we are squandering now. This song was about closing the cultural gap between the people of the USSSR and the west. The most powerful line in then song is "let your balalaika sing like my guitar wants to sing", meaning let your voice for peace in harmony with ours for peace. Too bad we couldn't keep that melody going. The first scene is the building of the Berlin wall. The final scenes are tearing down that wall. It's a song for peace and harmony. I still weep every time I hear this song for a future that never transpired.
Fun Fact:
As of 2022, the Scorpions still perform the song live but with lyrical changes in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The opening lines are changed to "Now listen to my heart / It says Ukrainia, waiting for the wind to change." Meine stated, "It's not the time with this terrible war in Ukraine raging on, it's not the time to romanticize Russia."
Slava Ukraini
It's a time to shut out ignorance and see the real truth and the truth is Russia who's SMO is to defeat Ukrainian neo-Nazis and the hatred that is driven on by the US deep state. Russia's dream of a better future lives on untarnished by Banderas disgusting legacy!
I didn't know that. Very cool they did that!
The problem with keeping Russia as an enemy is that the ultra rich elitists are still pulling the strings of NATO/USA & thus causing wars to still happen. When Putin was first elected president of Russia he asked if they could join NATO, of course he was turned down as elitists wish to have a country to be an enemy. The reason that Russia invaded Ukraine is NATO/USA built bio-weapons labs in Ukraine at the Russian border.
They did songs like Rock You Like a Hurricane, but they also did songs like this one, and Still Loving You. Scorpions was really a hell of a group. And yeah, if you know about the Berlin Wall, then you really get a kick in the heart from this video.
This song hits me in a different way. I lost both of my parents in 2022 at the age of 30 while trying to graduate from university. Having to empty my childhood home, knowing I'll never see them again, all the memories I had there. Knowing, that it was also a semi-goodbye to the town I grew up in, having little reason to visit there other than my parents and relatives graves. Man. Winds of change.
As a 22 year old Brit living and working in the Soviet Union in 1970 I remember one summer evening walking down to Gorky Park and meeting the children of tomorrow. Those young Soviets changed my life forever for good. Their hopes and dreams for a better future were answered and live on today. Sadly politics and left over hatred still abound and fester that casts a dark shadow today and unless resolved quickly will sadly blight our children for a generation...Hopefully truth will prevail and wonderful music and lyrics like 'Winds of Change' will herald more amicable times.
I still cry every time I hear this song. Every. Single. Time.
Such a beautiful, thoughtful and heartfelt reaction
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In the summer of 89 me and some friends took a detour through East-Germany for a vacation in Austria. Wow what a different country it was compared to western civilisation. Everything was at least 40 years behind and super controlled by authorities. Never forgetting this.
This were short before the Berlin-wall came down and the cold war ended.
Wind of change from Scorpions came out in right time after this happening. I was 31 years old and the world and future seemed very bright for a long time.
Unfortunately, today is not the same. 😞
Stacey, you and your comments spread som light and hope! 🤗👍😊
I remember watching the wall come down and my mom crying. I didn't understand the impact or the meaning at the time. But her entire life had been in the shadow of the fear of nuclear annihilation. And the fear was over.
Another classic song from my younger years, still remember the day The Wall came down and I got the same shiver and feeling the first time I heard this song. Even now I can almost feel the hair on the back of my neck standing up thinking and listening to this. Winds of Change, Rock You like a Hurricane, Still Loving You and Send Me An Angel all need to be on a playlist somewhere for everyone. I still have a fragment of the Berlin Wall as a momento of history.
I was shocked as you mention it's a new band for you !!!!
I'm a guy who was born in 2022 and I don't know why I loved 80's 90's songs and Scorpion is one my favourite band ❤ never get tired of watching your reactions video.
Born in 2022? I think you mean 2002.
So first of all as a German thank you for listening to in my opinion our greatest band ever if you ask me! So the singer has one of the purest voices you ll ever hear but there are 2 songs of the scorpions particularly: 1. Still loving you (the longer lyric video is the best one, it got like 85 million views) and 2. Send me an angel. And after you listened and hopefully reacted to both of these masterpieces you ll know what I mean. Greetings from Germany. Oh and this song was about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the following fall of the Soviet Union. I’m 31 so I wasn’t around yet when the wall got torn down but i know what significance this song had for the people back then but as you said even now you can take it as a positive
As Russian that is a special song for me and my country. Bitter sweet - is perfect words to explain this feeling. I remember when about five years ago there was a show in Gorky Park - tons of people were singing this song. We felt hope, unity... Sweet summer chidren - we couldn't imagine what happens to us in a very few years
This song takes me back to being stationed in West Germany. After a couple years there, we found out one November night that the wall was coming down, the countries were reunited, and the cold war was over. When hearing this song in German clubs, most people were very moved by it. We were reminded that a grave injustice had finally been righted. It is 35 years later now, and each time I hear this song, I still see the people tearing the wall down, the Pershing missile site being dismantled, and the flood of Trabi's puffing smoke crossing over what was no longer a border. Good job on this one.
For those of us alive at that moment in time when the Berlin wall came down it was in fact a moment when all possibilities seemed reachable. After decades of the Cold War with the Soviet Union to see it finally break apart, the Berlin Wall come down, and less than a year later East and West Berlin reunite was something no one thought they'd ever see. It was just a moment but good lord what a moment.
There is another reactor channel, Kerry Tries it, she is a Russian woman that reacted to this song and she hadn't heard it. Definitely worth watching.
Klaus Meine said once, getting invited to the soviet union at the late 1980's, as the west-german son of a german WW2 soldier, was such a big thing, that he started believing the world could change. So he wrote wind of change at a moscow trip.
Me, the grandson of a german WW2 soldier, born (1982) and still living in south-west germany, can relate that statement
The Scorps were an icon of the 80s and this song was a bookmark for a very important time in history.
I saw these live many years ago. They were brilliant. You could tell good things were going to happen for them.
The Scorpion's are a deep rabbit hole. So many great songs.
The song is from '91...shortly after the borders and walls in Germany came down.
The Scorpions are a German band. So German, in fact, that during their first American tour, while visiting with a Seattle FM radio station...the station had to provide an interpreter for the vocalist! Oh, you ask. How do they sing in English? English vocal coaches! 😂
This song always brings to mind the Fall of the Berlin Wall. No one better to sing of hope than a handful of young men who grew up in a country divided, literally. To be able to...after some thirty+ years...travel to see family and friends that have been denied to you for decades...I cannot imagine. The Scorpions hit the nail on the head with this beautifully crafted ballad.
Stacey has the kind of heart I would be honored to wake up with every day for the rest of my life.
I was in the USAF stationed in Germany when the wall went down 1988/89 and a couple yrs later they unified. This song came out at that time.
I been stationed in Seedorf in 1988/1991 in de Dutch army in a recon unit and remember the take down of de Berlin Wall and this song off the Scorpions ... Its a powerful song and always love all the song's of the Scorpions ... Danke dar für 🇳🇱🇩🇪
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@@joemachine4714 Thanks my friend , i've met a lot of US soldiers on the NAVO-oefenterrein Bergen-Hohne with the shooting series between the German, British, US and the Dutch Cavalerie ( tanks, M113 , M109 and other units, weapons. Also nice and friendly people. I never been in the US ... Hope some day . Regards from the nordern point of Holland 🇳🇱 .
This was a beautiful moment in time. The wall came down. Moscow reached a hand towards the west. The cold war ended. People were filled with hope. It really looked like the wind of change was upon us. Unfortunately it didn't last. We're right back where we started. But that makes this song even more powerful now. It tells us, look at what we hoped for for the future. It's not too late. Learn from the past.
Moskva is the Russian for Moscow and is the name of the city and the river that runs through it. The lead singer of Scorpions says that he wrote the song one evening whilst they were in the city performing concerts, i think the first time a West German band had been allowed to perform in Russia (then part of the Soviet Union) with the increasing openness and freedoms that were becoming available in Russia under the Russian premier Mikael Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika (meaning restructuring and openness and transparency, relating to reforms being made in Russia at the time, which was still under communism). He says he wrote the songs whilst looking down on the Moskva River. Gorky Park is a park in the city where there is a music center founded by Stas Namin of the rock band Gorky Park. I also love the kind in the song that says "Let your balalaika sing, what my guitar wants to say", the balalaika being a Russian triangular stringed instrument similar to a guitar (that i first saw when watching the amazing 1960s David Lean directed film Dr Zhivago, an epic based on the novel by Boris Pasternak, i think there main tune of them movie may include the instrument, a movie about a doctor and his travails during the Russian revolution, it's a love story really i think, i think you'd love it).
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Hello Stacey, greetings from Finland and thanks for all the songs and comments! And congrats for 100k! Originally I loved your comments and reactions for Pink Floyd songs, thats the band who got me subscribe your channel and got me into era of rock in the early 80s. All the other bands and songs are familiar to me too, also the Scorpions. I dont know if I can propose songs here or where but I'd like to see and hear reactions to Sentenced, a finnish metal band that put end to their career already in 2006. Melodic heavy metal with Miika Tenkula (the guitarist and songwriter who passed away way too early in 2005). They made lots of albums and their last song from their last album in the last concert End of the Road. If you comment instrumental songs, Mourn (from Sentenced also) would be cool too. Thanks and have a great weekend!
Singer and author of the song Klaus Meine grew up in former West Germany not far from border to East Germany. When the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapsing Klaus was in Moscow. There's a river running through with the same name as the city and Klaus was just walking along it when he got the inspiration for the lyrics. It begins with "i follow the Moskva (Russian name) down to Gorky Park and listening to the wind of change".
The Scorpions being a German band have a unique and powerful view of the falling of the Berlin Wall. In my opinion one of the great not only songs but videos of all time
It brings a tear to ones eyes to see just how poorly humanity has treated one another through history, and to this very day, not much has changed.
War is something you will never forget. The conflict might end but it never leaves the soldier.
The sights and smells never leave.
I am glad you enjoyed the song and saw the significance.
This is pure history lesson.
This song is about the reunification of Germany after over 40 years and the hope that this was a groundbreaking day for future generations. In love with 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.
This is the song of and ENTIRE generation of people around the world, but most especially for the people of Germany and the rest of Europe who were all on the frontlines of the Cold War for 45 years. I use this song to teach about the importance and symbolism of the fall of the Berlin Wall and how it meant the reuniting of families who were split apart for decades as the Soviet Union began its dissolution.
There was so much hope and optimism when that wall came down. I remember as a kid in like 3rd grade coming home from school one November day in 1989 and turning on the television to find EVERY. SINGLE. CHANNEL! showing live footage of the people standing on the top of the wall, using hammers and circular saws to start bringing it down. Even MTV stopped all their programming to report the news of this and show the live feed. If not for 9/11, it would have been up there as probably the most memorable day of my lifetime from a historical standpoint, with the election of Barack Obama as president (although, who can say what would've happened with that if not for 9/11 and all) being a close second for the historical significance.
Now getting older, I'm hearing this song and seeing those moments and the people and it brings so many emotions and tears for how freeing that moment must have been for them. It's a truly beautiful song and thing to see.
This song was the Eastern Europe anthem in that time. After 1989, the entire region was in a constant change. For the good or for not that good. People were living, sensing and embracing freedom like something they have never seen before. This song embodies thru lyrics and music what we all felt back then.
Also, feeling like this song needs to be heard today because of our current conflict. This is such a beautiful melody and sentiment. I pray the new children of tomorrow may still have dreams to share.
I'm old enough to remember the morning the world woke up to barbed wire having been erected overnight cutting through Berlin to form what would become the Berlin Wall. When the Soviet Union and the Eastern Block imploded in 1989 we all got to see that same wall being torn down by the FREEDOM of the East German and all German people. The guy who commented below about the views in the video of the Berlin Wall and The Scorpions being a German band really hits hard in this song. I never thought I'd live long enough to see that wall torn down. The Scorpions did so many great songs during their run. They had a sound that set them apart from all the other bands. They were outstanding.
Great reaction Stacey! You might not fully appreciate how important and poignant this song was when it came out (but you seem to get it!). The Scorpions, coming from Germany, were witnessing first hand the Berlin Wall coming down. The Iron Curtain, separating Western Europe from the East was being lifted - families that had been separated for decades were reunited - there was an air of hope, peace...a wind of change! If only that change could last. Alas, we need that wind to appear again...perhaps more than ever!
Future Scorpions to check: Still Loving You (fantastic 80's power ballad), The Zoo, No One Like You, The Sails Of Charon, Rock You Like A Hurricane, Lovedrive, Big City Nights...so many great tracks!
Cheers from Canada, eh!
Beautifully written.
Greetings from Germany
@@michaelw.548 danke sehr! Mit freundlichen Grüßen von Canada!
My mom's side of the family is from Germany. My great grandfather was drafted into the Third Reich during WWII and was killed on the Western Front in Russia. After his death, they were able to make it to America but went back to Germany after the war. My uncle has a piece of the Berlin Wall that was passed down to him from when they went back to Germany. Germany is such a beautiful country now, especially the food and beer!
I was an M60 machine gunner in the 82nd ABN. When I was needed, I was sent to the 3rd Infantry division where I was The company commanders track driver. We really all needed a wind of change!
A beautiful reaction to a beautiful song... One aspect of displaying the lyrics on the screen during a music video is that it can detract from the experience of simply listening. When you read the lyrics, your mind engages in reading while your ears are trying to absorb the music, which can take away from the overall auditory experience. Beautiful and articulate way of talking about how relevant the song is today w/o getting political. :) Thank you for reacting to this song.
Hello Stacey, thanks so much for you very moving words. As a German this song is means so much. It is the Hymn that tear down the Berlin Wall. When East and West Germany come together this song was the National Anthem. This song means so much for my generation because we witness the fall of the wall. Im very emotional about that song it means so much.
I’m glad you recognize the gravity of the times. And yes we may be repeating those times. But if you were alive & old enough to remember, those were victorious times.
Here we go again!
Great band, this is one of their most famous songs, it heralds the fall of the Berlin Wall 3 decades+ ago. The Scorpions are a German band and this song meant so much to them and everyone in Europe. It became a monster hit, with a billion views.
I have been a Scorpions fan since we stumbled into their debut album, Lonesome Crow, in 1970. Bought it for the cover and was I ever glad when I brought it home. A 16 year old Michael Schenker going berserk on lead guitar made me and all I hung with instant fans. He left to join UFO (You need to hear that band too, just as good) but they brought on Uli Jon Roth for several fabulous albums as they crafted their sound, hard rock with their own style with touches of prog and metal. After Uli left in 78, Michael Schenker briefly rejoined them before Klaus Meine was brought in as their permanent lead guitarist to go with founding member Rudolf Schenker (Michael's older brother) who holds down the rhythm but does lead about a third of the time, one of the best at what he does. Klaus Meine is the other founding member as lead vocalist and awesome frontman.
They have tons of great music in many eras going on still, they have toured this year, if you have a chance, do see them! For reactions, for me, I would do The Zoo next. It is off the great Animal Magnetism album, that album and the one before it, Lovedrive, and the one after, Blackout, are filled with incredible bangers. Do the title track from those three albums and you will know why these guys are utter legends, godfathers of Hard Rock who have bangers and ballads for your listening pleasure!
Lastly, saw them a dozen times, any live of theirs is a guaranteed banger. You have taken the first step down a deep rabbit hole. Now we got to get you listening to UFO, do Rock Bottom and listen in wonder to Michael Schenker and his signature song and solo. Enjoy!!! 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎸🎶🔥
This song stands for political change like no other: “Wind Of Change” became an anthem in the early 90s. Klaus Meine came up with the idea for the song during the Scorpions' performance at the “Moscow Music Peace Festival” on August 13, 1989, when the band played together with acts such as Ozzy Osbourne and Bon Jovi in front of 260,000 fans at the Lenin Stadium.
This has a sad melody but it inspired hope in an emotional way. Now when I hear it I am sad because even those the wall is gone, there are still many unseen walls that keep the world in a constant fight for freedom from violence and oppression.
Another hard-hitting song (although it falls more into a soft-rock category) which presaged the end of the Cold War is Billy Joel's "Leningrad". He wrote it in 1987 after his own tour of the then-Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall fell just two years later. The Scorpions wrote and released this song in 1990.
A wonderful song from 1990 that is still very relevant today in its message of peace for future generations.
I learned to whistle with this song!
I don't remember how old I was. I was alone, watching TV and this video came on. It was the first time I heard a singer starting a song with a whistle and I tried to imitate him and I was so proud when I realised I was able to do that!
The joy of those there when the wall came down gave me so much hope. There are so many reasons to be cynical. I do my best to hold on to hope. Thank you for your reaction.
I was in the Army stationed in Germany when the Berlin wall came down. It was a sureal moment watching East and west Germany unite. Gives me goosebumps to this day
Hello from France 😇 Wind of change of Scorpions is a classic too in France, i have this song on my phone and i cry always when listen it 😅
6:00. I remember crying in my room as a 16 year old kid as the Berlin Wall was being taken down. I was finally going to be able to see my Great Grandmother who was behind the wall for 30 years.
This song was on the air during the change in Eastern Europe in 1989. But for us in East Germany, another song is ingrained in our memories as the song that symbolizes this time. It's a love song published in 1987 by the East German band Karussell and called Als ich fortging. A youth program produced an MV for the song in 1989 and the visuals were right on point with what happened at this time. Many people tried to leave East Germany through the West German embassy in Prague or crossing the border from Hungary to Austria.
Stacey, great German band, it’s great you know about the history of this song and the Berlin Wall. I recommend listening to ‘Still Loving You’. Love your reactions!
I went to Germany a year after the wall came down. I had family stationed in Germany so I went over to spend Christmas and New Years with them. We didn't make it to Berlin but I would have liked to have visited at the time as it was a very interesting time in the world back then.
This was voted as my class song for 7th grade. It was fairly new, as I went to 7th grade in '88-'89.
"Mr Gorbachev. Tear down this wall ! " R. REAGAN
AMEN. I was 10 when the world woke up to barbed wire having been erected thru Berlin to start the Berlin Wall. People today don't understand what real oppression is. The Jack Boot of the old Soviet Union and the Eastern Block on your throat was oppression.
" Ich bin ein Berliner" - J. Kennedy
"Duh! What do you think I'm just doing!" Gorbachev muttering under his breath about Reagan's blatant publicity stunt. ^^
Amazing song, and really enjoyed your reaction and loved your thoughts and reflections at the end!
I was 10 years old when the wall came down. Lived 35kms from the border. It was a strange feeling that there was a 2nd germany not far away. We went to visit penpal friedn sof my sister between christmas and new year 1989. it was so strange to cross the border, which at that point was still intact and as soon as we crossed it, it was a completeley different country even the air smelled different. Always when I hear this song all these memories come back.
Scorpions! One of my all time favorite bands! Great reaction! I'd suggest The Zoo next.
Wind of Change is kinda a german anthem. At least in the Rock/Metal scene. Everyone can scream the lyrics at the top of their lungs. Its even more beautfiul cause it has such a deep meaning regarding the german history.
I was station in Bad Kissigen , Germany in 1987 when the wall came down, shortly after I was transfer to Ft. Sill, OK to take a course for senior Non Commissioned Officers. During the end of my school Iraq invaded Kuwait and 30 days later I was in Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield and Desert Storm. This song came out around the time I came back and I actually cried listening to it watching the video. Thanks for reacting, I saw your emotions that stitred inside you.🙏🏼🌹💕
I was stationed in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down. We were on standby during the wall coming down. No one had a clue if the shit was going to hit the fan or not.
I was stationed in Germany 8th Infantry Division. I was there at the wall when it was being demolished. Talk about right place right time.
I grew up in this time. I was 6 years old when the wall came down and I remember how euphoric people were. Everyone was hoping that history would take a turn for peace and a better world. Francis Fukuyama, a political scientist, even wrote a paper, proposing we had reached “the end of history”. The video also shows some footage of the war in Iraq after Saddam Hussein opted to invade Kuwait. This was the first dent in that belief already. There was a debate that Germany smash should take part (we bought ourselves out in the end) and I remember my grandma being terribly afraid that war would be back. She was born in 1918, the last year of world war 1.
There are songs that are classics, there are songs that will live on forever ...and then there's this song. Fore those of us that were alive and old enough back then, it's... yeah, end of an era is putting it mildly.
I love your reaction to the song. I'm Russian (57 yo now), and I'm a witness of what happened in Soviet Union at the time "Wind Of Change" was written and recorded. And I think that's amazing that someone from quite different and younger generation still can react to this song the way you did... As to recommendations for your future reactions, I'd like to suggest Living Colour's "Love Rears Its Ugly Head"
Throughout the scorpions history, there has been little to no change in Klaus meine' vocals
This came out somewhere around 1991. I saw them on the tour they did to support this album. This song hits hard. I've been a history buff and a political wonk since I was a kid, and when the Berlin Wall came down, I was in middle school; when the USSR collapsed, I was in high school. I went on to study political science at university. I remember thinking that the end of the Cold War gave us a profoundly amazing opportunity to learn from the past without digging out of radioactive rubble. I also remember wondering if that moment would be the moment when we shook off the sins of our fathers and moved forward together in peace and harmony, or if it would be just like the eye of a storm. It would be calm for a moment right before humanity returned to stupidity. A bloody hell we sure did.
Real talk: we have a candidate running for president who is an admirer of and (he thinks) a friend of Vladimir Putin. Putin was in Germany when the wall came down. He was very public in his lament that Moscow did not order the armored division stationed in East Berlin to wipe them out.
Conflict is always caused by and benefits the same people.
They updated the song to reflect the conflict in the Ukraine for their live performances and it is quite moving. I couldn't keep a dry eye when I saw them live last year. Hard to believe that Scorpions is now entering their 60th anniversary tour. Great band got to see hem live serveral times.
Agree. My 2 uncles faught in Europe in WW II against (2) mad-men. UA Must Stand and America ISNT doing enough. ( American) and l have friends in UA. They only want, what WE have. "Evil is powerless, IF the good are un-afraid " RR ....."l blessed YOU, to BLESS others" God
For we old Gen Xers, children of the Cold War, this song, along with all the scenes from the video exemplify the raw emotion of joy and relief we felt as at the time we thought all the world was saved and we were entering a time of healing.
it was released in 1990. I was able to go to a show for that Tour as a teenager. It was a great show. I don't know how we got from there to where we are today.
the whistle was something the singer used to express his musical ideas/concept to the guitar players during songwriting session and fortunately they kept in in
The song “Wind of change” by the Scorpions was written under the impression of the musicians’ visit to the USSR in 1988 and the Moscow Music Peace Festival in 1989.
Here is the song “Still Love You” from this concert, which featured Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, etc.:
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Original clip:
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Like always, Stacey, a wonderful podcast of yours... marvellous explanations and very empathical 🤗🤗😘
Stacey,
What a fantastic reaction ❤
Great song.
Thanks for posting.
Ronnie
SCOTLAND
I just watched those guyz couple of months ago live in Abu Dhabi .. guess what … they still amazing , best day of my life .
This song is beautiful, "No One like You" is a banger!
I still get tears in my eyes, when listening to this Song ; you must know my Roots come the Island Rugen (Esat Germany)
Look at all these people dressed in the cheapestst low quality clothes, suppressed for soooo many years .. and now they are ALL FREE, all of a sudden!
Treating our Brothers and Sisters so bad, with no Voice at all was extremely painful.
Seeing them finally released is ... AMAZING!
That all happend end of 1989 to 1990 - HISTORICAL!
*i forgot one thing: THANK YOU!
your right Stacey the whistle is iconic not everyone can do it
this song was at a pivotal time in history in 1990 as The Berlin Wall came down, "yes that's what is being torn sown in the video", and just so happened while I was a freshman in High school studying Eastern Europe in World Geography .It seemed like every week new countries were being born from once sovreign nations overtaken by the Soviet Union, and in that class we drew maps almost every day .For many countries it was an anthem as they for the first time in decades experienced democracy.
Wind of Change. This was during the fall of the Berlin Wall. President Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union and Pope John Paul II. When the Berlin Wall fell, it ended the Soviet Union and Russia became a fledgling democracy again.
From my humble point of view, this ballad cannot be compared to "still loving you" which is a joy
The Scorpions, a German band from Hannover, performed 'In the Flesh?' and 'In the Flesh' when Roger Waters staged 'The Wall' on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin after the Berlin Wall came down in 1990 and Germany was reunited again after 45 of separation. They rolled onto the giant stage on top of a trailer that was pulled by a Truck. This event was broadcasted live on television and Radio. I was there and one of the 500,000 people in the audience.
Well in the backdrop of perestroika & cold war era, you can call this Rudloph Schenker composition as a classic from Scorpions, but songs like "When The smoke is going down, Born to touch our feelings, Always Somewhere, Holiday, Still Loving You, Rock You like a Hurricane, No one like you" are gems from late 70's to mid 80's. Again albums like In trance and Love at first Sting are treasure troves !
Key references in the lyrics:
[1] "Moskva" is the Russian name for both Moscow and a river that runs through Moscow. Klaus is referring to the river.
[2] "Gorky Park" is a major park in Moscow along the Moskva River.
[3] "Balalaika" is a Russian guitar-like instrument with a triangular body and (usually) three strings.
Your evaluations are right on.
I can still hear Ronard Regan. " Mr. Gorbachev TEAR. DOWN. THAT WALL " he made each of those 4 words sound like a sledge hammer striking the wall