“Kasparyan promised to sprinkle my ashes on the graves of Tsoi and Kuryokhin.” Joanna Stingray talks about the Leningrad rock club, its inhabitants, smuggling and the future of rock music — Novaya Gazeta Evropa

In 1984, when Joanna Fields, a young American woman with dyed bangs, came to the USSR with a tour group, she could not imagine that she would rush to go there again and again, smuggle Aquarium and Kino records to America, or illegally import rocker instruments into the Soviet Union — one Fender Stratocaster guitar bought by David Bowie for Boris Grebenshchikova, what is it worth! Joanna released the Red Wave album in the US, and Americans heard …