The history of Russian rock music in the era of upheavals and changes

American singer, music producer, activist, and femme fatale Joanna Stingray arrived in Leningrad in the early 1980s. For over ten years, her life was closely connected to the USSR and the world of Soviet underground culture. This amazing world so impressed and inspired Joanna that she became one of the most prominent promoters of Soviet and post-Soviet rock culture in the West. Two memoirs by Joanna Stingray, "Stingray in Wonderland" and "Stingray Through the Looking Glass," are now being released in one volume with a new design and a new foreword by the author. In it, Joanna talks about her visits to Russia in 2004 and 2018, her daughter Madison, the process of writing her memoirs, and much more that troubled her upon returning to America. By reading them, you will learn how things really were. This book is a priceless testimony to the formation and development of Russian rock and art underground during its most fruitful "golden" period. Boris Grebenshchikov and Viktor Tsoi, Yuri Kasparian and Sergey Kuryokhin, Kostya Kinchev and Timur Novikov, Afrika and Kolya Vasin, David Bowie and Andy Warhol, and many other heroes of the fabulous Wonderland. Thirty years later, Joanna decided to revisit this bright period of her biography and share all the adventures in her book. It is an insider's view, not only as a witness but as a direct participant in many events that were destined to become history. Her memories are open and remarkably honest, they are memories of people she loved and continues to love.