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Wind of Change by Scorpions - Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Wind of Change by Scorpions - Fall of the Berlin Wall

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I lived in Berlin for some time, and I really loved the people there. In fact, one can still feel the DDR way of life. To me, Wind of Change by the Scorpions is one of the most iconic hard rock ballads of the early 90s. A song that talks about a wind that brought change to Europe in the last decade of the 20th century and that would eventually break the political and ideological division that ruled the world for more than 40 years.

Let's move back in time now. March 1946. Half a year since the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill first mentioned the political term Iron Curtain, an imaginary border that divided Europe into two blocks that of the Western countries that followed the capitalist system of the United States, and that of the socialists aligned under the influence of the Soviet Union.

15 years after Churchill's proclamation, the Berlin Wall was build, a construction of more than 120 kilometres that would separate the city, and in fact, the 2 Germanies for almost 30 years. While the lives of the citizens of that divided Germany were adapting to the new stage on each of the two sides, Scorpions was formed in Hannover. It was a band that eventually became the most popular and international rock group in the Federal Republic of Germany. Its vocalist, Klaus Meine, wrote the song Wind of Change in September 1989 following an unexpected event that happened at a concert they did at a rock festival in Moscow. At that concert, there were red army soldiers standing with their backs to the stage to provide security, but unexpectedly when the band members came out to play, the soldiers turned towards them and joining the effusive welcome that the audience gave the musicians, the soldiers threw their caps in the air in a spontaneous salutation. Meine was convinced that what they had just witnessed was an unequivocal sign that something was happening. And, then, he began to compose Wind of Change, a theme that was claiming for a world of peace that united peoples and that left behind the divisions and tensions of the Cold War.

The song's lyrics reflected its author's hope that the change he was talking about would become a reality. What he could not imagine is that, that very same month of November, a peaceful revolution would bring down the Berlin Wall, and that his song would become the unofficial anthem of the fall of this symbol of the Iron Curtain, and therefore part of the soundtrack to one of the historic moments of the end of the twentieth century.

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Scorpions - Wind Of Change (Official Music Video)

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I love all of his songs. Buray was born in the Turkish part of Cyprus. I first heard his songs in a Turkish series called Room 309. It was a huge success in Spain.

Since then I'm a big fan of the Turkish culture.

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DOC is one of my favourite Italian medical drama series. Every time I hear the soundtrack I'll Find You in the Dark, it brings me very nice memories.

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Nabucco is an Italian opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi. The best-known number from the opera is the "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" (Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate" / "Fly, thought, on golden wings"). It is impressive! I used to go to Die Deutsche Oper in Berlin as often as I could, and this was definitely my favourite one.