What was the Soviet pop music?

The Daily Poster released a special project about Soviet pop music-with materials about the style of Alla Pugacheva and Valery Leontyev, playlists and tests for knowledge of vocal and instrumental ensembles.

According to one of the authors of the special project, journalist Nikolai Ovchinnikov, the Soviet estrous often looks like something outdated, but this is not so. “This aesthetics are not, no, and it looks in new music: from the magic fables Polnalyubvi to the cozy ballads“ Soyuz ”, from the coin, which seems to imperson Pugachev to the Komsomolsk group with their retro-utopism,” writes Nikolai.

The Daily Poster also asked modern artists to record covers on famous Soviet songs. Listen to the “Queen of Beauty” performed by Dakooka, “ice” performed by Komsomolsk and other songs.

Earlier , Paper told the story of the composer Viktor Reznikov. The St. Petersburg teacher without musical education wrote dozens of hits for Pugacheva, Boyarsky and Valley.

And also listen to the playlist of the Paper , which is suitable for walking around the city and rest. We update it weekly.