Scorpions
“Wind of Change” is coming to cinemas
The Scorpions around singer Klaus Meine are getting a film.
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The “Wind of Change” will soon blow through the cinema: The Scorpions and their biggest hit will be immortalized in a biopic.
The Scorpions are still one of Germany’s biggest musical exports. Now Hollywood is taking on the story of the band from Hanover. As the US industry magazine “Deadline” reports that actor Ali Afshar (49) will produce the project titled “Wind of Change”. The biopic is named after the band’s biggest hit, which sold millions of copies worldwide.
As “Deadline” goes on to write, “Wind of Change” tells the story of “three unlikely friends” whose “love for rock ‘n’ roll” makes them world stars.
How the Scorpions became world stars
The three friends are Rudolf Schenker (75), Klaus Meine (76) and Matthias Jabs (68). Guitarist Rudolf Schenker founded the predecessor band Nameless in Hanover in 1965. Singer Klaus Meine joined four years later, and lead guitarist Matthias Jabs followed in 1978.
At the end of the 1980s, the Scorpions toured the Soviet Union, becoming only the second Western hard rock band after Uriah Heep. In August 1989, the group returned to the USSR for the Moscow Music Peace Festival.
During this guest appearance, Klaus Meine came up with the idea for “Wind of Change”. The song was released on the album “Crazy World” in 1990. But it was only as a single that it became a global hit – and an anthem for the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
“Wind of Changes” is scheduled to be released in 2025, when the Scorpions will celebrate their 60th band anniversary.