A Billion Voices, One Anthem: Scorpions Release Anniversary Edition of ‘Wind of Change’

The song“Wind of Change“ was first released 35 years ago. It remains the most successful German rock single worldwide. Starting October 3^rd one can get a preview of “Wind of Change“ from the upcoming album “Coming Home – Live“.

Mumbai, 3^rd October 2025: If ever a song became an icon of a historical event, it is the anthem composition celebrating the fall of the Iron Curtain, the end of the Cold War, and the reunification of Germany – “Wind of Change“. The song has now been viewed more than a billion times worldwide on Vevo and just as many times on YouTube; no other German single has sold more copies, and the song has served as the soundtrack for half a dozen Hollywood films.

To mark the 35^th anniversary of German reunification and exactly 35 years after “Wind of Change” first appeared on the album “Crazy World,” the SCORPIONS’ label is releasing a truly extraordinary live recording of the song: as an appetizer for the album “COMING HOME – LIVE,” which will be released in November. It’s a recording of the SCORPIONS’ magnificent anniversary concert in Hanover’s stadium in July 2025. A moment of pure goosebumps: when 50,000 fans in the stadium sing in unison with the band and Klaus Meine, the performer, composer, and lyricist… “Now listen to my heart/it still believes in Love/waiting for the wind to change.”

Essentially, this is the second change to the lyrics of “Wind of Change.” After Klaus Meine symbolized the worldwide longing for peace and freedom using Moscow as an example in the original 35 years ago, “I didn’t think it was appropriate, in view of the terrible war in Ukraine, to romanticize Russia with lines like ‘Follow the Moskva / Down to Gorky Park.’ I wanted to make a statement in support of Ukraine. So the song began with ‘Now listen to my heart / It says Ukraina, waiting for the wind to change.'” Meanwhile, conflicts around the world have escalated further. “That’s why we changed the lyrics again on the current tour. ‘Now listen to my heart / it still believes in love / waiting for the wind to change.’ Whether it happens in Ukraine, Gaza, Israel, or anywhere else on our planet, we don’t want to lose faith in a peaceful future.”

Stream the song here:

Universal/Vertigo, the SCORPIONS’ label, will release “COMING HOME,” the iconic concert at the Hanover stadium, featuring all of the rockers’ biggest hits and many musical surprises, as a live album on vinyl and CD for fans in November. Pre-orders are now available.

60 years of Scorpions in numbers, dates, facts:

• Over 120 million records sold.
• At the first Rock in Rio festival, the band played in front of 1.3 million fans.
• 10 sold-out concerts, the first Western band to do so, in Leningrad, and then at the Moskau Music Peace Festival.
• Three consecutive sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in NYC.
• Two dozen studio and concert albums, which have received nine gold and four platinum awards in Germany, among others.
• The Scorpions have played over 5,000 concerts worldwide.
• There’s Scorpions whiskey, Scorpions beer, Scorpions stamps, a Scorpions street in Madrid, and in Los Angeles, October 6th is celebrated every years as Scorpions Day. The accolades are endless, including a World Music Award, an Echo Award, a star on the Hollywood Rock Walk, and induction into the Hall of Heavy Metal. In Brazil, a new species of spider was named after them, and countless children around the world bear the artists’ names as a tribute to the band.
• Worldwide, 127 precious metal awards were presented: 58 platinum, 67 gold, and two silver. Most awards came from France (18) and the USA (14).
• The single “Wind of Change“ is the best-selling single by a German band. More than 15 million singles have been sold. The song has been viewed more than a billion times on Vevo, more than any other song by a German band worldwide. It reached number one in the charts in eleven countries and charted in 78 countries overall.

Check it out and relive one of the biggest ever anthems of the world!