Subj : Wind of Change
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : ROCKY LEHMANN
Date : Fri Sep 08 2000 06:22 am

 
AA> Does anyone know the significance of the reference to
AA> "Muskova down to Gorky Park" in the song by the Scorpions?
 
AA> Is the song an anti-war message?
 
AA> what is the Muskova (a river?) and what happened at Gorky Park?
AA> I seem to recall that there was a movie called Gorky Park;
AA> is there a connection?
 
 
Hello August!!
 
Or is it September now??  ;-)  I dunno what happened at Gorky Park!
I don't think I saw the movie either. Was it about spies?
 
Check out these web pages:
 
Moscow Canal - Kanal Moskva
http://www.britannica.com/seo/m/moscow-canal/
 
Gorky Park - Russia for Visitors - 08/24/98
http://gorussia.tqn.com/travel/gorussia/library/weekly/aa062999.htm
 
Moscow from Moskva river - Russia for Visitors - 06/29/99
http://gorussia.about.com/travel/gorussia/library/weekly/aa082498.htm
 
 
Articles and interviews with the Scorpions are here:
http://scorpweb.simplenet.com/artic.html
 
 
Check this one out:
 
Scorpions - Rip - February 1991
http://scorpweb.simplenet.com/artic/ripfeb91.html
 
Klaus Meine, author of "Wind of Change:"
 
> "Wind Of Change" is about what's happening in the world,
> what's happening in Germany with the Berlin Wall coming down.
> It's about the Moscow Music Peace Festival, and was very much
> inspired by that. We were in Leningrad in '88, but our shows
> in Moscow were cancelled. They refused to let us play there then.
> One year later we came back, and it was amazing. This song is
> very personal to me.
 
> M.J.:A couple of months ago people in East Germany, in Russia,
> couldn't even dream about things like going to a concert and
> hearing rock 'n' roll.
 
 
Check this one out too:
 
 AOL Rockline Chat - 06-24-96
 http://scorpweb.simplenet.com/artic/rllog.txt
 
 
> Question:     hey, why'd you guys do "winds of change"?
 
> Scorps RL:    Well, we did it because we played it in the
                Soviet Union in '89 we saw the world changing
                right in front of us in Moscow. When we came
                home from Russian, a couple of months later
                the Berlin Wall came down.
 
 
Keep on rocking! :-)

Rocky*

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