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

The American singer, music producer, public figure, and rock lady Joanna Stingray arrived in Leningrad in the early 1980s. For more than ten years, her life was inextricably linked to the USSR, to the world of Soviet underground. This amazing world so impressed and inspired Joanna that she became one of the most well-known promoters of Soviet and post-Soviet rock culture in the West. Joanna Stingray's two memoirs, 'Stingray in Wonderland' and 'Stingray in the Looking Glass,' are now being published in one volume with new design and 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 learn how it really was. This book is a priceless testimony to the formation and development of Russian rock and art underground in its most fruitful 'golden' period. Boris Grebenshchikov and Viktor Tsoi, Yuri Kasparyan and Sergei Kuryokhin, Kostya Kinchev and Timur Novikov, Africa and Kolya Vasin, David Bowie and Andy Warhol, and many, many other heroes of the fairy tale Wonderland. After thirty years, Joanna decided to return to this vibrant period of her biography and recount all the twists and turns of her adventures in her book, which is an insider's view, not only of a witness but also a direct participant in many events that were destined to become history. Her memories are open and astonishingly honest; they are memories of the people she loved and continues to love.