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Wind of Change

song composed and written by Klaus Meine and originally recorded by Scorpions and released in 1990
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Summary

Wind of Change is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 0.8% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,756 views/month, #155 of 19,375).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: Klaus Meine[3]
  • Genre: rock music[4], hard rock[5]
  • Producer: Keith Olsen[6]
  • Performer: Scorpions[7]
  • Record label: Mercury Records[8], Vertigo Records[9]
  • Part of: Crazy World[10]
  • Language of work or name: English[11]
  • Recorded at studio or venue: Wisseloord Studios[12]
  • Publication date: April 1991[13]
  • Lyricist: Klaus Meine[14]
  • Narrative location: Moscow[15]
  • Main subject: Revolutions of 1989[16]
  • Title: Wind of Change[17]
  • Has characteristic: anti-war song[18]
  • Different from: Wind of Change[19]
  • First line: I follow the Moskva[20]
  • Form of creative work: song[21]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[22]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 51464194-6cb4-39e1-9577-39b48705cef9[23]

Why It Matters

Wind of Change has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

Klaus Meine Mercury Records Vertigo Records

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . azlyrics.com. azlyrics.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [22] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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