The History of Russian Rock Music in an Era of Upheaval and Change

American singer, music producer, activist, and rock lady Joanna Stingray arrived in Leningrad in the early 80s of the 20th century. For more than ten years, her life was inextricably linked with the USSR, with the world of Soviet underground... music. This amazing world so struck and inspired Joanna that she became one of the most famous promoters of Soviet and post-Soviet rock culture in the West. Two memoirs by Joanna Stingray, "Stingray in Wonderland" and "Stingray in the Looking Glass," are now published in one volume in a new design and with a new preface by the author, in which Joanna talks about her visits to Russia in 2004 and 2018, her daughter Madison, the process of writing her memoirs, and much more that concerned her after returning to America. By reading them, you will find out how it really was. This book is a priceless testimony to the formation and development of Russian rock and art underground in its most productive "golden" period. Boris Grebenshchikov and Viktor Tsoi, Yuri Kasparyan and Sergey Kuryokhin, Kostya Kinchev and Timur Novikov, Africa and Kolya Vasin, David Bowie and Andy Warhol, and many, many other heroes of the fairytale Wonderland. Thirty years later, Joanna decided to return to this bright period of her biography and recount all the twists and turns of her adventures in her book; it is an insider's perspective, not just a witness, but also a direct participant in many events that were destined to become history. Her memories are open and remarkably honest; they are memories of the people she loved and continues to love.