The
eleventh issue of YHO was a special edition devoted to vintage pop music from
the Communist-era Eastern Europe. The
cover featured a still of the Bulgarian diva Lili Ivanova performing in a late
‘60s New Year’s Eve special on Soviet TV.
An allusion to Beryl Marsden singing about music being a language known
around the world set the scene.
The
opening paragraph makes the YHO position on all this pretty clear: “This is a story about discovering wonderful
pop sounds from the Eastern Europe of the 1960s and ‘70s. In other places it
might be billed as a journey of discovery where myths are shattered, lies
exposed, ignorance laid bare, injustices set right. That sort of thing. It is
written with great enthusiasm, if from a position of relative ignorance.”
It
was ridiculously exciting discovering all this extraordinary music which
hitherto I had no idea even existed. Just
looking at the people featured in this issue makes me grin:
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Novi Singers
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Ada Rusowicz
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Yvonne Prenosilova
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Marta Kubisova
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Blue Effect
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Lili Ivanova
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Pasha Hristova
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Phoenix
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Josipa Lisac
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Olivera Vuco
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Kati Kovacs
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Vladimir Vysotsky
This issue can be found here ...
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