About Hard Rock
That is gonna be only in English. When I was in 7-th grade, I started my journey with Hard Rock. My first group was Deep Purple and I fell in love with David Coverdale and all entourage of the group. John Lord was a god :) Of course soon I discovered other groups, like Led Zeppelin or Queen. Back then I didn't really think of which one was the best - you have to remember it was a Brezhnev time in USSR.
But anyway I managed to find all most popular hard rock music and I am not talking about Boney-M :) or Abba in this regards.
I had friends and we all were dreaming one day to see those group live. No groups in USSR matched even close to any of British or American rock groups.
And that moment actually happened for citizens of USSR and other countries of former USSR after about 1987. And it has continued for the next 25 years.
And what I see now? People of russia lost that privilege.
And I don't see that young russian generation really understand the matter. They are completely under kremlin spell. SHAME ! Slaves ! Zombie - not humans.