Die Zeit. “It simply isn’t right to romanticise Russia with lyrics like: ‘I follow the Moskva/ Down to Gorky Park…Let your balalaika sing’“.The band have changed the lyrics to: “Now listen to my heart/ It says Ukrainia/ Waiting for the wind to change,” which are projected on a screen behind the band as they perform.Released in 1991, the perestroika power ballad is the German hard rockers’ most famous song; it was voted song of the 20th century by viewers of the public broadcaster ZDF in 2005.Even though the song was released over a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is widely remembered as the soundtrack to the era of economic and social changes in the former Soviet Union that heralded the end of the cold war.Meine said he composed the words on September 3 and 4, 1989, a month after Scorpions performed at the Moscow Music Peace festival.Elsewhere in the interview with Die Zeit, Meine discussed his friendship with Hanoverian ex-chancellor turned Russian gas lobbyist Gerhard Schröder, whose fifth wedding party he attended in 2018.“I haven’t spoken with Gerhard Schröder for a while,” Meine said.
‘Salt And Sacrifice’ PlayStation prices forced to rise in some regions
16.05.2022 - 19:25 / nme.com
Salt And Sacrifice has received a forced price increase on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in some regions.Following the launch of Ska Studios‘ Soulslike 2D platforming game Salt And Sacrifice on May 10, it was reported that the price for the game went up on PlayStation stores for some regions.As reported by Techraptor, the price of the game was forced to match the local prices on the global Epic Games Store, with countries like Brazil seeing a price increase of 276 per cent, meaning the price has gone from $38 to $105. However, in the UK, players saw a decrease from £16 to £13, while in Canada it went from $22CAD to $27CAD.At the time, developer Shane Lynch told the game’s community on its Discord server that “some prices were originally set much lower than Sony, and we’re obligated to match prices on all platforms.
I can’t actually control individual country prices on Sony, so some of it had to go up or down. Sorry.”Today (May 16), a Ska Studios spokesperson responded to the forced price matching in a new statement to Eurogamer.
It said: “Salt And Sacrifice‘s pricing was always intended to be the same on all storefronts at launch. As such, storefront pricing was adjusted in various regions ahead of the game’s global PC launch at 9 AM PT on Tuesday 10 May, 2022.
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