Scorpions singer says iconic ballad ‘Wind of Change’ was not written by CIA
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nypost.comThe lead singer of Scorpions has dismissed rumors that the band’s 1990 power ballad “Wind of Change” was written by the CIA as a piece of Cold War propaganda.
Klaus Meine appeared on SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation” where he explained that he was interviewed by a reporter from the New Yorker for a podcast investigating the hit song.
The journalist, Patrick Radden Keefe, was looking into theories that the CIA collaborated with the German hair metal band to create ballad that would change the world. “And it was about the Moscow Music Peace Festival, about ‘Wind of Change’ — but this is what this interview was all about,” Meine said on “Trunk Nation.” “And in the middle of the interview, he goes like, ‘Klaus, you ever heard the story that ‘Wind of
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