How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution

by Leslie Woodhead

Book Overview

Imagine a world where Beatlemania was against the law-recordings scratched onto medical X-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband LPs, spotty broadcasts taped from western AM radio late in the night. This was no fantasy world populated by Blue Meanies but the USSR, where a vast nation of music fans risked repression to hear the defining band of the British Invasion.
The music of John, Paul, George, and Ringo played a part in waking up...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608196143
• ISBN13: 9781608196142
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"