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How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin
Leslie Woodhead
The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution
Bloomsbury
May 2013
On Sale: April 23, 2013
296 pages
ISBN: 1608196143
EAN: 9781608196142
Kindle: B009SJZKFY
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Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the
law-recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant
sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts
taped from western AM radio late in the night. This was no
fantasy world populated by Blue Meanies but the USSR, where
a vast nation of music fans risked repression to hear the
defining band of the British Invasion. The music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo played a part in
waking up an entire generation of Soviet youth, opening
their eyes to seventy years of bland official culture and
rigid authoritarianism. Soviet leaders had suppressed most
Western popular music since the days of jazz, but the
Beatles and the bands they inspired-both in the West and in
Russia-battered down the walls of state culture. Leslie Woodhead's How The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
tells the unforgettable-and endearingly odd-story of
Russians who discovered that all you need is Beatles. By
stealth, by way of whispers, through the illicit late night
broadcasts on Radio Luxembourg, the Soviet Beatles kids
tuned in. "Bitles," they whispered, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah."
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