MOSCOW TO HOST SOVIET ROCK FESTIVAL
A rock festival featuring 25 amateur and professional Soviet groups will be held in Moscow in January, Tass news agency has reported.
It did not say which bands will take part.
Rock once was regarded as decadent, but the official attitude has been slowly changing and a number of groups, such as Leningrad-based Aquarium, have emerged from underground to almost full acceptance.
Moscow’s central exhibition hall, which normally houses displays of Socialist Realist art, was the unlikely site for a rock and poetry festival earlier this month.
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