In an unpredictable empire at the junction of East and West, rock music had to undergo strange metamorphoses. The fresh wind from Liverpool opened a new chapter of Russian cultural tradition; The phenomenon of “rock culture” combined irreconcilable (according to Kipling) cardinal directions, high art and political opposition, the latest technology and medieval organization. The book you have opened is not an experience of popular musicology, but history. Like any story, ours has a beginning and an end - the birth and death of an era. She also has her own name - since Bashlachev wrote “The Time of Bells”. At the same time, the first version of this book appeared. It was distributed in the form of “samizdat” and, for obvious reasons, did not include any living specifics that could then be presented to good people during interrogation...