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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The Great KGB Punk Conspiracy
Description: You may be aware of a podcast that came out in the spring of 2020 that sought to get to the bottom of a certain musical mystery…it’s called “wind of change” and it explores the possibility that a metal power ballad was a contributing factor to the fall of the soviet union in the very early 90s…
Stay with me… “Wind of Change” was a global hit for The Scorpions; a metal band out of Hanover in what was then WestGermany…
The Scorpions sing in English…but they also recorded a Russian version under the name “Veter Pere...