A new Spotify podcast will explore whether the CIA helped write Scorpions' 'Wind of Change' as a piece of Cold War propaganda
’ 1990 power ballad of the same name was actually written by the CIA as a piece of late Cold War propaganda.journalist Patrick Radden Keefe and all eight episodes premiere May 11th on Spotify.
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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