How the Beatles rocked the Kremlin
Subtitle: the untold story of a noisy revolution
By: Leslie Woodhead
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781608196142
Subjects: Beatles; History and criticism; Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Rock music; Political aspects
Description: 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."
Notes: Includes index.