In 1980, at the height of the final USSR dictator Leonard Brezhnev's rule, Brois Grebenshikov was fired from his job for throwing a frisbie at the State sponsored rock show his band Aquarium was playing.
8 years later, Gorbachev and Perestroika had happened and Boris came to the West as a solo artists, releasing an excellent sp;p album produced by Dave Stewart.
It died a death and Boris returned to what would soon be Russia again and remains a very popular rock star.
What remains is the title track off the album, the excellent "Radio Silence".. A whirling hard rocker which works as a long metaphor for the opening up of rock and Russia to the West, Boris comes on like a really real rock star and his failure tp hit it big Stateside is a little strange. "Spinning tales about silence, about radio silence, bout some kind of asylum, in the middle of an empty field full of danger…"
This is risky rock and roll