Russian Rock. The End of the Underground. Photographs. Interviews. Documents

Joanna Stingray – an American singer, actress, music producer, and public figure, one of the significant personalities and popularizers of Soviet and post-Soviet rock culture in the West.
«This is the third album of photographs, documents, and interviews made by Joanna during her stay in the Soviet Union.
1987 is a key and decisive year, the year when the most important radical changes in the culture and politics of the USSR took place. In the summer of 1986, Joanna released the album Red Wave in America featuring music from four groups of unofficial Leningrad rock – «Aqua Rium», «Kino», «Alice», «Strange Games». What happened next is an exciting story in the spirit of the best detective and spy novels. And finally, the inevitable, like in a fairytale, happy end – a grand rock-n-roll wedding. The pages of this book breathe with the living spirit of the time. A time when grand changes were taking place. A time when the End of the Underground finally arrived, and Russian rock – largely due to the efforts of Joanna Stingray – emerged from the underground. »