Musicians for Peace is the first international festival in the USSR , which was held from May 1 to May 27, 1988 at the Green Theater of Gorky Park [1] .
| Rock festival “Musicians for Peace” | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | |
| Dates | 1988 |
| Location | |
| City of | Moscow |
| A country |  the USSR |
The audience of the festival was about 15 million people [2] .
About the Festival
Before the festival, the Stas Namin Center and the Soviet Peace Committee were organized concerts of the same name [3] . These concerts were held March 7-9 at the HSS CSKA, and 22 musical groups performed at them, the most famous of which were Rondo and Bravo [3] . The hosts of the concerts were Stas Namin , Dmitry Shavyrin and poet Alexander Elin [3] .
The international festival “Musicians for Peace” in the Green Theater of Gorky Park was held by coincidence during the days of the meeting of Mikhail Gorbachev with Ronald Reagan in Moscow [4] . The festival was organized by the Stas Namin Center and the Soviet Peace Committee [4] .
The festival consisted of three parts [4] :
- May 1-8 - the largest heavy metal festival with the participation of the then-popular Russian "heavy" groups "Alexander Nevsky", "Cross", " Metal Corrosion ", "Marquise", "Grand Prix", "Monolith", " Legion ”,“ Stalker ”,“ Time Out ”.
- May 13-15 - pop-rock festival and alternative music festival. Groups: “Team S ”, “ Lotus ”, “ Bioconstructor ”, “ Nikolai Copernicus ”, “ Night Prospect ”, “ League of Blues ”, “ Center ”.
- May 27 - the international festival "Peace Festival" with the participation of Melanie (USA), which was one of three rock singers (along with Joan Baez and Janice Joplin ), who participated in the Woodstock festival in 1969, and Howard Jones (Great Britain). Among the domestic groups that took part in this festival are the following: “ Gorky Park ”, “ Team S ”, “ Stas Namin Group ”, “ Nikolai Copernicus ”, “Rondo”, “Alexander Nevsky”. Boy George was also invited to the festival, who could not come because he was not given a visa to enter the USSR. And in 1990, Boy George performed at the One World festival in Gorky Park .
Literature
- Sergey Troitsky . The battle for vodka . - Litres, 2017-09-05. - 476 p. - ISBN 9785040229666 . (the book contains a fragment where Sergey Troitsky, the leader of the Corrosion Metal group, describes his impressions of participating in the festival)
Notes
- ↑ Chronicle / 1988 / musical . www.kompost.ru. Date of treatment September 28, 2017.
- ↑ Svetlana Borisovna Kovalenko. Modern musicians pop, rock, jazz: a brief biographical dictionary . - Ripol Classic, 2002 .-- 616 p.
- ↑ 1 2 3 "Moscow Komsomolets" 03/11/1988 ("Musicians for Peace") | Archive | Our NeFormat . www.nneformat.ru. Date of treatment September 28, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Festival “Musicians for Peace” (inaccessible link) . STAS NAMIN (Anastas Mikoyan) / STAS NAMIN (Anastas Mikoyan) . www.stasnamin.ru. Date of treatment September 28, 2017. Archived September 28, 2017.