The Kremlin's hand made a "goat"
The Presidential Administration invited the monsters of English rock
Moscow was secretly visited by the luminaries of British rock and roll and blues - the band Mungo Jerry. They spoke at a dinner hosted by the Office of the President of the Russian Federation at the Japanese restaurant Momoyama, at the Golden Ring Hotel.

No tickets were sold, there were no more than 50 people at the dinner - all of them. The company for which the British performed looked very peculiar: about five people from the presidential administration in strict black suits, with their spouses (who wished to remain anonymous), several State Duma deputies (also incognito, but well-known people), four FSB officers - in gray and dark clothes. blue suits, General Director of Radio Russia Alexey Abakumov, General Director of the Radio Center concert Vyacheslav Drozdetsky, several TV presenters and producer Bari Alibasov in a purple jacket and blue hat with the Na-Na group in full force.
Mungo Jerry performed about twelve of their hits. The guests applauded after each song: at first - restrainedly, then - with shouts of “Oh-oh-oh!”, By the end, many guests raised both hands up with the traditional rock and roll “goat” and shouted: “Oh, yes! "
After the concert, the musicians were seated in a restaurant opposite a fountain with goldfish. They served sushi, rolls, soy soup, tea and small cakes. Bari Alibasov, touched, told his tablemates that Mungo Jerry took him back to his youth, at a time when he only had an old Soviet tape recorder and listened to English rock and roll all day long. The guests did not approach the musicians - they only smiled and nodded their heads from a distance, expressing their approval.
The next morning, the musicians, without understanding anything, flew to London.
ALENA Kommersant-ANTONOVA

Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 62 dated 04/07/2001, p. 5

Authors:

Alena Antonova