Russian rock. The end of the underground. Photographs. Interviews. Documents

Joanna Stingrey is an American singer, an actress, a musical producer and public figure, one of the significant persons and popularizers of the Soviet and post-Soviet rock culture in the West. “This is the third album of photographs, documents and interviews made by Joanna at the time of her stay in the Soviet Union. 1987 - key and decisive, it was this year that the most important radical changes in the culture and policy of the USSR occurred. In the summer of 1986, Joanna published in America the album of Red Wave with the music of four groups of unofficial Leningrad Rock-Aqua Rium, Kino, Alice, Strange Games. What happened next is an exciting story in the spirit of the best detectives and espionage novels. And finally, inevitable, as in a fairy tale, Happy End is a grandiose rock and roll wedding. A living spirit of time breathes from the pages of this book. The time when grandiose changes were performed. The time when the end of the underground finally came, and