Artist: Gorky Park
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Protivofazza
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
Stare
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Moscow Calling
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
Gorky Park
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
While Gorky Park's celebrity in the United States was passing, they are an important band historically because their succeeder is deep rooted in the events that took place during the final years of the Cold War. In 1980 the conservative Chrnenko came to powerfulness in the U.S.S.R. Tensions betwixt the U.S. and U.S.S.R. intensified when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and the U.S. boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. In 1981 Reagan took office staff and began a massive military buildup. In an endeavor to thwart the increasing presence of American culture that crept in through a palmy black market and the CIA's radiocommunication broadcast, Chrnenko situated a ban on playing and listening to tilt & revolve. He stated that "Rock euphony, along with former elements of Western culture, is theatrical role of an armory of subversive weapons aimed at undermining the commitment of young Russians to Communist ideology." Just like the U.S. in the 1950s, the condemnation of john Rock & roll by politicians actually helped spur the music's popularity. It was during this time that members of Gorky Park began playing in diverse Moscow-based rock bands.
When Mikhail Gorbachev came to powerfulness many of the restrictions placed on music by the premature governance were lifted. The mental institution of the glasnost and perestroika programs helped Moscow's resistance rock scene fly high. In 1987 guitar player Alexie Belov, vocaliser Nikolai Noskov, bassist "Bad" Sasha Minkov, guitar player Jan Ianenkov, and drummer Sasha Lvov came together to mannikin Gorky Park. Because of the lessening in travel restrictions, later that class the band was able-bodied to pull up stakes Russia for America in search of a record carry on. At the time this appeared to be a ridiculous quest since the musical theme of Russian rock to many was soundless a contradiction in terms.
In the U.S. the band speedily made some strong connections in the euphony concern. One of the number 1 people to take notice was guitar fable Frank Zappa. Eventually the chemical group felled seam under the sleepless eyes of Jon Bon Jovi and Ritchie Sambora, world Health Organization helped them secure a deal with Mercury Records.
The band released a self-titled debut record album in 1989 and history appeared to be on their side. That was the class the Iron Curtain began collapsing culminating with the strike of the Berlin Wall in November. With a new mother wit of goodwill 'tween east and rebecca West Gorky Park came to be a quite unknown symbol of American-Russian i. The band's number 1 picture, "Hump," received hard MTV rotation. Their side by side deuce singles, "Adjudicate to Find Me" and a quislingism with Bon Jovi, "Peace in Our Time," received heavy rotation on mainstream radiocommunication. The chemical group landed a topographic point on that year's infamous Moscow Music Peace Festival aboard manufacture giants Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, and the Scorpions. The band continued their success into 1990 touring with Bon Jovi and acting at the Goodwill Games opening ceremony.
With ever-changing melodic tastes and the final remainder of the Cold War, the group's fame in America subsided quite quick. However, they were immortalized on an sequence of Sat Night Live's skit "Wayne's World." The band terminated up on Wayne and Garth's list of the summit tenner uncollectible things about the fall of the Soviet Union. The duo claimed with the burst there would be "No more cheap behind-the-iron-curtain metal bands like Gorky Park."
Although not popular in the U.S., the band continued its success in the reside of the earthly concern. Nikolai Noskov left the band in 1990 only the mathematical group remained together and released legion albums in the '90s. 1993's Capital of the Russian Federation Calling sold D,000 copies outside the U.S. Their side by side record album, Stare, came out in 1996, released only in Russia, followed up by a massive turn of the former U.S.S.R. states. In 1998 the band released Protivofazza. While still popular in Russia the chemical group will always be known to Americans (world Health Organization retrieve them) as the first-class honours degree Russian glam rock candy band to wind up on MTV.
Patrick Cassidy
