Russian rock music. Story. Photos. Interview. Documentation

The author of the album Joanna Stingrey is an American singer, an actress, a musical producer and public figure, one of the significant people and popularizers of the Soviet and post-Soviet rock culture in the West. Joanna came to the USSR many times in the 1980s, lived in the country for a long time, was familiar with the cult Soviet rock musicians-Boris Grebenshchikov, Viktor Tsoem, Konstantin Kinchev, Sergey Kuryokhin, Garik Sukachev, Vyacheslav Butusov, collaborated with them. She meticulously recorded everything that was happening, taking thousands of photos and hundreds of hours of video shooting: concerts, rehearsals, interviews with musicians, artists, producers, and journalists. Now this unique material is an invaluable evidence of the historical process of the formation and development of Russian rock and the Soviet art-endgrade in its most fruitful “golden” period.

All materials in the book are published for the first time.