As the song goes on, the person realises they don’t need money to be happy. ![]() Burke Shelley’s vocals are very androgynous and he is often mistaken for female and compared to Janis Joplin. The guitar riff is guaranteed to hook you in and it is an example of early metal. One of Budgie’s best known songs, it’s quite obvious from the title that this song is about someone who is focused on making money, gaining status, and getting rich. Millennials and Zoomers in Moscow sang “Peremen” in Pushkin Square. In 2020, there were protests in the Russian Far East and people sang this song. Protesters in Russia and former USSR countries will still play and sing this song. The Soviet Union may have broken up and Russia is now capitalist, but there are still young people who want changes. They’re amazing! Why this lyric is relevant today I highly recommend listening to Kino, if you’re going to listen to any Russian rock music. People found him relatable and saw him as a rock star of the people. Being Soviet means that your rock band got no support from the government, your music would often be pirated, and you need money to make money and get fame, so he worked a day job in an apartment building boiler room. This song and the album, Gruppa Krovi (Blood Type) kicked off Kinomania. It was an anthem for the perestroika era. Tsoi performed “Peremen” in the Kazakh film, Assa, and it was one of the band’s most popular songs. It’s impossible not to believe him… Tsoi is the only rocker who has no difference between his image and his real life, he lived the way he sang… Tsoi is the last hero of rock.” This is because Tsoi never lied and never sold out. “Tsoi means more to the young people of our nation than any politician, celebrity or writer. Newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda wrote about him just after his death: Coming back from a fishing trip, Viktor Tsoi fell asleep at the wheel while driving and his car crashed into a bus and he died. Kino were working on an album in 1990 and the whole band were in Latvia. ![]() He was one of those rock musicians who was gone too soon. His music stood for change and that’s what young people wanted. At the time the band were at their most famous, it was during glasnost/perestroika. Kino (Russian for “cinema”) were one of Russia’s best known rock bands of the 80s, and had a huge influence on and frontman/songwriter/band leader, half Korean, half Russian Viktor Tsoi was a real talent and very much loved by Russians. I wanted to start this blog post with a song that few of my readers would know.
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