The new version had its premiere during a performance in Las Vegas, USA, on March 26, according to Poland’s niezalezna.pl website.
As Scorpions geared up to play the anthemic Wind of Change, lead singer Klaus Meine addressed the audience: “This song is a call for peace, but tonight I think, we shall sing it even louder. We dedicate this to the brave people of Ukraine,” niezalezna.pl reported.
Originally, the hit anti-war song, penned by Meine, was about the end of the Cold War and Russia’s post-1989 political transformation.
'Not the time to romanticise Russia'
However, as Meine explained in a media interview: “I thought, it’s not the time with this terrible war in Ukraine raging on, it’s not the time to romanticise Russia with lyrics like, ‘Follow the Moskva / Down to Gorky Park,’ you know?’,” as cited by niezalezna.pl.
The singer told loudwire.com: “I wanted to make a statement in order to support Ukraine, and so the song starts now with, ‘Now listen to my heart / It says Ukraine, waiting for the wind to change,'” niezalezna.pl reported.
Tuesday is day 48 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Source: niezalezna.pl, YouTube, loudwire.com