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  • Wind Of Change
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  • CD single
  • Gramophone record
  • Maxi single
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  • eng
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  • Mercury Records singles
  • 1990 songs
  • 1991 singles
  • Dutch Top 40 number-one singles
  • Number-one singles in Norway
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  • %22Wind of Change%22 is a song by the German rock band Scorpions, recorded for their eleventh studio album, Crazy World (1990). The song was composed and written by the band's lead singer Klaus Meine and produced by Keith Olsen and the band. It was released as the album's third single in January 1991 and became a worldwide hit, just after the failed coup that led to the collapse of the Soviet Communist regime. The song topped the charts in Germany and across Europe and hit number four in the United States and number two in the United Kingdom. It later appeared on the band's 1995 live album Live Bites, their 2000 album with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Moment of Glory, and on their 2001 unplugged album Acoustica. With estimated sales of 14 million copies sold worldwide, %22Wind of Change%22 is one of the best-selling singles of all time. It holds the record for the best-selling single by a German artist.The band presented a gold record of the single to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991. As of September 2015 the video for “Wind of Change” has been viewed more than 172 million times on YouTube to date. VEVO meticulously recorded the view requests and certified them. With this, the Scorpions are the first German band cracking the 100 million click mark.
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  • Klaus Meine
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