American singer and musician, lady fatale Joanna Stingray came to Leningrad in the early 80s of the 20th century, for more than ten years her life was inextricably linked with the USSR, with the world of the Soviet underground. She opened the world of Russian rock to the West. Boris Grebenshchikov and Viktor Tsoi, Yuri Kasparyan and Sergey Kuryokhin, Kostya Kinchev and Timur Novikov, Africa and Kolya Vasin, David Bowie and Andy Warhol and many, many other heroes of the fairy-tale Wonderland emerge as if alive from the pages of the book. Thirty years later, Joanna decided to return to this period of her biography and talk about all the vicissitudes of her adventures, her view is a view from the inside, the view of not only a witness, but also a direct participant in many events that were destined to become history. “I wrote this book with great love. The opportunity to revive memories and immerse myself in the magical world of the first years of my Leningrad life is a wonderful gift that filled my heart and warmed my soul. None of us could have known then that we were part of a unique period of artistic life, the interest in which would live on decades later.” Joanna Stingray