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Scorpions

Германия

Pop Rock
Hard Rock
Progressive Rock
Symphonic Rock
Hard 'n' Heavy
Acoustic

http://www.the-scorpions.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/officialscorpions
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Scorpions

30 апр 2025 :	KLAUS MEINE: Right Now Is 'Not The Moment' For SCORPIONS To Create New Music
12 апр 2025 :	KLAUS MEINE Say Upcoming SCORPIONS Biopic “Wind Of Change” Will Tell The Band’s Story “From A Different Point Of View”
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20 мар 2025 :
18 мар 2025 :	Watch: MIKKEY DEE's Son MARCUS Plays Drums With SCORPIONS In Mexico City
21 фев 2025 :	KLAUS MEINE: 'There Are A Million Good Reasons' For SCORPIONS 'To Go Back Into The Studio Soon'
14 фев 2025 :	SCORPIONS Biopic 'Wind Of Change' To Begin Shooting In May
3 фев 2025 :	SCORPIONS Upload “Send Me An Angel” From Hellfest 2022
20 янв 2025 :	SCORPIONS Upload “Bad Boys Running Wild” From Hellfest 2022
7 янв 2025 :	Watch SCORPIONS Perform "Peacemaker" Live At Hellfest 2022; Pro-Shot Video Streaming
23 дек 2024 :	Watch SCORPIONS Perform "Seventh Sun" Live At Hellfest 2022; Pro-Shot Video Streaming
9 дек 2024 :	Watch SCORPIONS Perform "Coast To Coast" Live At Hellfest 2022; Pro-Shot Video Streaming
6 дек 2024 :	SCORPIONS' Advice To Young Musicians: 'Believe In Yourself'
28 окт 2024 :	MIKKEY DEE On His Time With SCORPIONS: 'It's Been A Great Journey So Far For Me'
25 окт 2024 :	SCORPIONS Announce 60th-Anniversary Hometown Concert With JUDAS PRIEST
15 окт 2024 :	SCORPIONS Share Full Concert From Rock In Rio 1985
8 окт 2024 :	SCORPIONS Share Pro-Shot Video Of Entire Hellfest 2015 Show
16 сен 2024 :	SCORPIONS Live in Bremerhaven, Germany 1996; Full Concert Streaming (Video)
11 сен 2024 :	SCORPIONS Live In Berlin, 1991; Video Of Full Concert Streaming
4 сен 2024 :	SCORPIONS Guitarist MATTHIAS JABS Says 'Bad Accident' Resulted In Broken Hand And Foot
19 авг 2024 :	SCORPIONS Shares Kaléidospop 1977 Full Concert; Video
6 авг 2024 :	SCORPIONS Perform “Big City Nights” With DORO At Wacken; Video
28 июл 2024 :	SCORPIONS Release Classic Performance Of “Can’t Get Enough” From Rock In Rio 1985
26 июл 2024 :	RUDOLF SCHENKER Promises 'Interesting Things' For SCORPIONS' 60th-Anniversary Celebration In 2025
16 июл 2024 :	SCORPIONS' MATTHIAS JABS On His Songwriting Relationship With RUDOLF SCHENKER: 'The Most Important Thing Is That The Band Is Successful'
15 июл 2024 :	SCORPIONS Perform “The Zoo” From Rock In Rio 1985; Classic Video Streaming

13 май 2020

SCORPIONS' KLAUS MEINE Denies 'Wind Of Change' Was Written By CIA: 'It's Fake News'

SCORPIONS singer Klaus Meine has shot down the suggestion that the group's classic ballad "Wind Of Change" was written by the CIA.

Maine and his bandmates have always maintained that they wrote "Wind Of Change" after performing at 1989's Moscow Music Peace Festival in Moscow, where they shared the stage with other hard rock acts like BON JOVI and MÖTLEY CRÜE.

The theory that "Wind Of Change" was actually penned by the CIA as a piece of late Cold War propaganda was first raised in a new eight-part podcast series, also called "Wind Of Change", which premiered on Spotify on May 11.

Produced by Crooked Media and Pineapple Street Studios, the podcast is hosted by New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, who said he launched the investigation after hearing a second-hand story from a friend who used to work for the CIA — that "Wind Of Change" was actually written by the CIA to encourage change throughout the Soviet Union.

In a new interview with SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation", Meine was asked how the CIA rumor came about. The singer responded: "Earlier this year, I did an interview. I think his name was Patrick Keefe. He came all the way from New York City over here to Germany for an interview with me. And Matthias [Jabs, guitar] did a phoner later, I guess. And it was about the Moscow Music Peace Festival, about 'Wind Of Change', but this is what this interview was all about. He used to write for printouts like New Yorker and stuff — he's a great guy, and very sympathetic and a really nice guy. And in the middle of the interview, he goes, like, 'Klaus, you ever heard the story that 'Wind Of Change' was written by the CIA?' And I cracked up laughing — I totally cracked up laughing. I said to him, 'So, my friend, you think you make an interview with a songwriter or you think you make an interview with a spy?' [Laughs] It was pretty bizarre. And then I learned the story. This was all about the podcast that would come out in May, which is now.

"Those guys, they're very professional and very creative, and the way they put it [together], it feels like a Netflix series, right?" he continued. "That's what it is. It's a podcast, and there will be a lot of people who will get into this. It's a fascinating idea, and it's an entertaining idea, but it's not true at all."

Meine went on to say that he initially thought Keefe was joking. "But when he told me about the CIA, I realized that he was very serious about it, and he [spent] some serious time to get to this point and, at the end of the day, to even make an interview with the songwriter of 'Wind Of Change'," Klaus said. "I thought it was very amusing, and I just cracked up laughing. It's a very entertaining and really crazy story, but, like I said, it's not true at all. Like you American guys would say, it's fake news."

Keefe told Deadline about his decision to explore the topic:"It's a story that stretches across musical genres, and across borders and periods of history. So, it was important to me that you hear the music, and the accents and the voices, and judge for yourself who might be lying and who is telling the truth. I've had so much fun pursuing this crazy story over the course of a year, exploring the dark byways of Cold War history and doing nearly a hundred interviews in four countries with rockers and spies."

Tommy Vietor, the co-founder of Crooked Media, added: "We know that the CIA covertly sponsored cultural events during the '50s and '60s. They paid to film George Orwell's '1984' and 'Animal Farm'. They sponsored a European tour for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Why not help a German rock band write a power ballad to shred the iron curtain? And while the CIA closely guards its secrets, Patrick is one of the best investigative journalists and writers of his generation, and no one is better positioned to find out the truth."

Back in 2015, SCORPIONS said "Wind Of Change" was inspired by the sight of thousands of Russians cheering them on in 1988 — when they became the first hard rock band to play in Russia — and in 1989, at the aforementioned Moscow Music Peace Festival, even though they were a German band.

"We wanted to show the people in Russia that here is a new generation of Germans growing up," guitarist Rudolf Schenker said. "They're not coming with tanks and guns and making war — they're coming with guitars and rock 'n' roll and bringing love!"

"There were so many emotional moments in Moscow," Meine added. "I guess it could have been BON JOVI or MÖTLEY CRÜE, any of these guys who had gone home inspired by what they saw, but for them it was like, 'Hey! We rocked the Soviet Union, dudes!' For us, maybe it was different. We saw so many changes from Leningrad in '88 to Moscow in '89. That was the inspiration for 'Wind Of Change'."

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13 май 2020

Flaming

Ну начинается.
Железный занавес и прочая чебурахня.
Песня вышла синглом в 91-м, альбомно в 90-м.
Железный занавес в эти годы существовал только в самых отмороженных, северокорейских мозгах.
Стена уж год как упала. И уотерсовская и настоящая.

13 май 2020

HELLECTOR

А Nothing Else Matters - это от ФБР. Инфа 100%

13 май 2020

Flaming

В те годы всё ЦРУ занималось исключительно сочинением репертуара группы Кино.
Думаю у них не было времени отвлекаться.

Да, кино и ГО.

Вопрос, кто спонсирует группу Rosa Infra...

13 май 2020

Blackout 74

Клауса песня и точка, занимаются ерундой.

13 май 2020

Dr_Sexy

+15 шекелей всем выше

13 май 2020

Rutger

Зачем так грубо - написан? Достаточно намекнуть, забросить идею через продюсеров и лейблы, пообещать печенек.

13 май 2020

Kiskenbassker

@Зачем так грубо - написан? Достаточно намекнуть, забросить идею через продюсеров и лейблы, пообещать печенек.@

И еще печенек за то, чтобы это была баллада, за запоминающийся припев, и за то, чтобы другие песни на альбоме сильно ее не оттеняли.

13 май 2020

sibterminator

"Вопрос, кто спонсирует группу Rosa Infra..." - Бильбильберский клуб, очевидно жы!
Со зыс из наше пороже, ливинг фор томорров!

13 май 2020

Orthodox

Сейчас вылезет ufx и авторитетно объяснит, что всё было написано КГБ и лично Путиным))

13 май 2020

HELLECTOR

Не, ну путен мог только на Лулу набубнить.
ufx, сорри, я не мог сдержаться)

13 май 2020

Flaming

Да не, путен так доставляюще бы не набубнил, тож Лу Рид, сцуко.
А пу-бубнеж все и так еженедельно слушают, да фанов что-то не видать)

13 май 2020

Alice Malign

>>> А Nothing Else Matters - это от ФБР. Инфа 100%

ФБР не может быть, им нет никакого дела до внешних угроз. АНБ или РУМО скорее.

13 май 2020

HELLECTOR

Nothing Else Matters - это внутренняя угроза