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1. My Friend Michael

Wind of Change

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Wind of Change

The song ended becoming the defacto anthem for the fall of the wall and the end of the cold war between the united states and the soviet union. For the first time since the wall was erected in 19 61, people will be able to move through freely across the us. Young people were galvanized by wind of change. They copied boot leg tapes and distributed them hand to hand. The song is cheesy, but there's something about it that earworm whistle, the message of bloodless revolution and idealism and solidarity and hope, it cuts under your skin.

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