Игорь Тальков Маленький Город: Igor Talkov Malenkiy Gorod

Artist: Игорь Тальков (English) Igor Talkov Song Title: Маленький Город (English) Little Town BIOGRAPHY: While Igor Talkov is mostly remembered for his beautiful songs about love and fate, most of his work held a clearly political message against the Soviet regime, desperately calling for a change. This is one of the reasons why Talkov was never popular with the Soviet government; even as a performer renown and loved throughout the whole Soviet Union, he lived in a small tworoom apartment with his wife and son, even composing his masterful lyrics and music on top of the washing machine in the bathroom, according to the rumours. Curiously enough, he was not satisfied with Perestroika, claiming it to be nothing but the same regime under a different guise. In his postPerestroika songs, he openly mocked the changes, calling them a ruse. Talkov was an avid reader of prerevolutionary Russian history, which served as the inspiration for many of his songs. He even guara