“The whistling was a result of me having no guitar when I was writing it. The record company called me and said: 'You have to take the whistle out.' I said: ‘No way’": The Scorpions' Klaus Meine on the making of Wind Of Change

Klaus Meine of The Scorpions, 1991.

The Scorpions have been talking about the inspiration behind their biggest hit – Wind Of Change – in a new interview with The Guardian.

The track was released in early 1991, when, with the Berlin wall having recently come down, bands were playing Eastern Europe and even the Soviet Union itself. And as vocalist Klaus Meine explains, the lyrics of Wind Of Change were largely drawn from the band’s first visit to Leningrad in the late '80s.