Songs banned in the USSR

The book is about people who risked in Soviet conditions, to perform, to write and record on film works "informal stage". Ordinary citizens of the country of Soviets copied each other tapes of the mysterious "Odessa" and "the residents of Magadan", but knew underground artists only on votes. Due to the lack of information was employed unimaginable tales and legends about the authors. "Intellectuals sings bawdy songs," the poet said. What is really there intellectuals! The members of the Central Committee of the CPSU also charmed their ears forbidden tunes on the Kremlin banquets, and the Moscow elite gathered to listen to these songs at private concerts. This book is about how it was, and about the dramatic fate of the "unknown" stars. It is told that in the USSR the concept of "forbidden music" and treated as "katarzynski" songs and "torn genre" in tsarist Russia. Named the true names of the authors of "Murka", "Bublikov", "GOP with Smyk", "Schoolgirl" and many other "popular" works. The author tells us, than turned to Leonid Utesov the performance of "Odessa" songs before comrade Stalin. Introduces the tragic biography of the "king" rogue song Arcadia North (his ardent fan was Brezhnev), with the fate of the legendary brothers Pearl, Alexander Rosenbaum, Andrew Nicholas, Vladimir Shendrikova, Konstantin Belyaev, Mikhail Zvezdinskogo and many other heroes of his research. A special place is occupied stories about "the Solzhenitsyn in the song" Alexander Galich, and the last rebels of the Soviet era - Alexander Novikov and Nikita Dzhigurda. The book is richly illustrated with photographs, most of them published for the first time. Previous book Maxim Krasinskiego "Russian song" in exile " (ed. "Decompression") was dedicated to the lives of artists-emigrants. Application: gift disc collector's records.