The book by Maxim Kravchinsky continues the story about performers of genre music. The author’s previous work, “Russian Song in Exile,” also published by DEKOM Publishing House, was dedicated to the fate of emigrant artists. In the new book, M. Kravchinsky talks about people who risked performing, composing and recording “unofficial pop” works in Soviet realities. Ordinary citizens of the country of the Soviets copied each other’s tapes with the mysterious “Odessa residents” and “Magadan residents,” but knew the underground performers only by their voices, composing, due to the lack of any information, unimaginable tales and legends about their owners. “The intelligentsia sings thieves.” songs,” said the poet. What is there! Members of the CPSU Central Committee delighted their ears with forbidden melodies at Kremlin banquets, and the Moscow elite gathered to listen to them at closed concerts. This book tells how it was and the dramatic fates of “unknown” stars. You will find information about when in the USSR the concept of “forbidden music” appeared and how “convict” songs and the “ragged genre” were treated in tsarist Russia. Discover the true names of the authors of “Murka”, “Bublichkov”, “Gop with a bow”, “Institute” and many others “ folk" works. You will find out how the performance of "Odessa songs" in front of Comrade Stalin turned out for Leonid Utesov, get acquainted with the tragic biography of the "king of the thieves' song" Arkady Severny, whose ardent admirer was L. I. Brezhnev himself, as well as the fate of his colleagues: the legendary “Pearl Brothers”, Alexander Rosenbaum, Andrei Nikolsky, Vladimir Shandrikov, Konstantin Belyaev, Mikhail Zvezdinsky, Viktor Temnov and many others became the heroes of the new study. A special place is occupied by stories about “Solzhenitsyn in Song” - Alexander Galich and the last rebels of the Soviet era - Alexandra Novikov and Nikita Dzhigurda. The book is richly illustrated with unique photographic materials, most of which are published for the first time. The first edition of the book was received with exceptional warmth by readers and critics, and sold out in two months. The proposed edition is the second, revised. The edition comes with a gift disc with collectible recordings.