Christie at Sopot, 1970

Alexei Zaikin explains the Sopot phenomenon: It happened at the end of August 1970, the first time in the history of the Soviet Union on national television in a live broadcast from the stage of the Song Festival in the Polish city of Sopot, that we saw a demonstrated performance of a western rock band - CHRISTIE, which, in spite of such a late broadcast time, was watched by the whole country! At that time I was in high school in high school, but my parents, knowing my craving for modern music, allowed me as an exception to watch this festival. And, as always happens in such cases, I was in full combat readiness with my sound recording another - our tape recorder “Astra-2“ and a video recorder, with which I record all that then sounded on radio and television in a foreign language, and began to look forward to in the hope that this time I have more luck and finally record something decent. And I was lucky ...! Curiously, Christie were not competitors in the Festival, but as a guest, in the so-c