Wind off Exchange is a famous song of the group of German Hard rock Scorpions made up in 1990 by the singer of the group Klaus Meine and resulting from the album Crazy World .

Description

" Wind Off Change" was entirely composed and written by Klaus Meine, the singer of the group. The words of the song were inspired to him by Moscow Music Peace Festival, the first festival of Western music rock'n'roll given in the Soviet block, in 1989, and in which Scorpions took part. They celebrate the political changes of the beginning of the year 1990 in Europe of the East, i.e. the fall of the communist bloc (what led thereafter to the disappearance of the the USSR).

Many the listeners of the song who are not familiar of the places of Moscow remain often perplexed as for the significance of the first lines of the song which are:

I follow the Moskva

Down to Gorky Park

Listening to the wind

off changes

(I go along Moskva

towards Gorky Park

by listening to the wind

change)

The Moskva is the river which crosses Moscow, and Gorky Park is the name of an amusement park of the same city. " Wind off Change" was inspired in Klaus Meine at the time of the visit of Scorpions in Moscow in 1989, and it thus has inlut in the song various references to the city.

Success

“" Wind off Change" ” truly became a hit only in 1991 when the song was classified #1 in the charts in particular in Germany (11 weeks), France (7 weeks between fine 1990-beginning 1991) and Netherlands, #4 with the the United States and #2 with the the United Kingdom.
" Wind off Change" is generally known like one of the symbols of the reunification of the Germany and the end of the iron curtain. Scorpions received many honors and distinctions for this song: the members of the group were received with the the Kremlin with Moscow by Gorbatchev in person at the time of a ceremony during which they gave a plate on which the words of the song to this last were registered. they were also invited in 1999 has to play the song at the time of the ceremony which took place to celebrate the ten years of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In 2005, the spectators of the German television channel ZDF chose this song like song of the century. It is the most sold song of all times in Germany.

Other versions

" Wind off Change" also appears on the albums of Scorpions Live Bites ( live , 1995), Moment off Glory (2000) with the orchestra philarmonic of Berlin and on the album Acoustica (2001). The group with also recorded a Russian version of the song ( ВетерПеремен , " Veter Peremen") as well as a Spanish version (" Vientos de Cambio").

Charts

Billboard (the United States), The individual U.K. charts (the United Kingdom), German Signal 100 (Germany), France Signal 50 (France), Dutch Signal 40 (Netherlands)

External bonds

• Words of the song

References

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