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How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution. Leslie Woodhead. NY: Bloomsbury USA; 2013. 1st edition. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. 304 pages. Revolution. Leslie Woodhead. NY: Bloomsbury USA; 2013. 1st edition. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. 304 pages. Illustrated with photos. Brand spanking new.
Possessing and playing anything Beatles in the middle of the 20th century in the USSR was against the law, so recordings were scratched onto medical X-rays, and merchant sailors brought home contraband LPs, and broadcasts were taped from western AM radio late in the night. Beatles music played a part in waking up an entire generation of youth, opening their eyes to an alternative to official culture propogaed by rigid authoritarianism. Leslie Woodhead's narrative relates an striking and captivating story of Russians who discovered the Beatles. By stealth, by word-of-mouth, via illicit late night broadcasts on Radio Luxembourg, the Soviet kids were tuned in.
Leslie Woodhead (1937-) was a young TV producer when he led a Liverpool TV crew into the Cavern Club to make a short film about the Beatles. This book explores his subsequent journey into Beatlemania Soviet-style.
