Pop music has few stars more global than Elton John, but sometimes we forget how much the world has shrunk in recent decades. When it was announced in 1979 that Elton and percussionist Ray Cooper would conduct an eight-date tour of Russia – still then called the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics – it was a huge deal and headline-seizing news.
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