DRESLER
Joséphine
Hello
everyone, welcome to my blog ! Recently, a subscriber asked me
to speak about my favorite song. It is with a great excitement I talk
about a song who really impacted me: “Wind of Change” by
Scorpions.
Firstly,
I show you the lyrics to really understand the song and after I will
explain you all.
I follow the
Moskva → the
moskva is a name of a river in Moscow
Down to Gorky Park → the gorky park is a famous park in Moscow
Listening to the wind of change
An August summer night → wave of revolutions from the eastern bloc
starting
in poland.
Soldiers passing by → It's for civilian soldiers
Listening to the wind of change → The winds of change represented the rapid political reforms of Glasnost and Perestroika by Gorbachev in the USSR.
The
world is closing in
Did you ever think
That we could be so close, like brothers → the two sides of berlin, also the east and the west
The future's in the air
I can feel it everywhere
Blowing with the wind of change
Take me to the magic
of the moment
On a glory night → the fall of the berlin wall
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change
Walking down the
street
Distant memories
Are buried in the past forever
I follow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change
Take me to the magic
of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
With you and me → it means that the people of the future will live in peace and with no wars, its a magical world
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
In the wind of change
The wind of change
Blows straight into the face of time
Like a stormwind that will ring the freedom bell
For peace of mind
Let your balalaika sing
What my guitar wants to say
Take me to the magic
of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
With you and me
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
« Wind
of Change » is a ballad released in 1990, in the album called "Crazy World". This song is written by the singer
of the German heavy metal bands Scorpions : Klaus Mein. This ballad was also written in Spanish and Russian."Wind Of Change" did not become a hit until 1991. The band sold more than 100.000.000 copies. The link between this song and the fall of communism is not immediately obvious. It refer to the political situation in Russia but it will be later used as an hymn of the Berlin's wall. Indeed, this
song celebrated the end of the Cold War particularly in USSR. That
is, the end of the tensions between the two nations, the United
States and the Soviet Union. Scorpions presented the single to the
soviet leader, Gorbachev, in 1991.
To write the lyrics, Klaus Mein
was inspired by the Moscow Music Peace Festival : a gathering of
hard rocker for a performance in Moscow in 1989 to promote world
peace and establish an international cooperation against the oppression. Indeed, this festival was a part of Perestroika's programme to open up the Soviet union to the rest of the world. So, a symbol of a change in the Soviet Union.
Also, the song is extremely link to the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989,
when hundreds of thousands of East Berliners crossed the wall and went to the West.
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| Moscow Music Peace Festival |
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| It's when the wall came down |
The singer says "When we played in Moscow, we saw the world changing in front of our eyes. We talked to many young fans and they said they'd never dreamt they'd be watching hard rock bands at their Olympic stadium". We can understand the real impact of "Wind Of Change" on peaple.
I
think about this song and I want to link this song with “heroes” by David Bowie who also
symbolizes the fall of the Berlin wall.
Thank you for your attention. Bye, see you soon!
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