Scorpions – Wind of Change (1991)
A massive hit in Europe and charting well in the U.S. Scorpions’ Wind of Change is not just a great song but it also in itself a piece of history. As its title suggest this is a song that reflects a big change in European history at a time when the Berlin Wall was taken down and West and East Germany were united.
Singer Klaus Meine wrote the song after a visit to Russia when the Cold War was ending and the Soviet Union was also drawing to a close. The Union ended in 1991 the same year this song took the world by storm. The independence of former Soviet republics and the union of Germany after nearly half a century of division paved the way for a new future in Europe and the rest of the world. Though this song is very much about that time in history it will never stop being a legendary song. In its own right it is magnificent but in its historical context it is poignantly sublime.
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