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A new podcast, Wind of Change, will explore the tantalizing possibility that Scorpions’ 1990 power ballad of the same name was actually written by the CIA as a piece of late Cold War propaganda.
The show is hosted by New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe and all eight episodes premiere May 11th on Spotify. It is a joint project co-produced by Crooked Media and Pineapple Street Studios.
As Keefe recounts in a new trailer for the podcast, the story goes that Scorpions wrote “Wind of Change” after participating in a landmark concert in Moscow in 1989 with other hair metal heavyweights like Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe.
“Wind of Change” was a huge hit in the United States and across Europe, and its arrival lined up perfectly with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union. But, Keefe says, for the past 10 years he’s been dogged by a rumor a friend shared with him: That “Wind of Change” was actually written by the CIA to encourage change throughout the Soviet Union.

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koods said:

So apparently it’s possible that one of the biggest rock songs of the 80s was written by the CIA for propaganda purposes.
The Winds Of Change

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LogicaL Chaos said:

Very interesting. Looks like i need to research Carl Jung more.
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cannabinated said:

just listen to terence mckenna

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cannabinated said:

koods dad worked at skunk works

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SARAtonin said:

doggie snuggles.

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