To the birthday of Viktor Tsoi: unique archive footage from a concert in the USA

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21 June 2017, the legendary musician Viktor Tsoi would have turned 55 years. For this event Yandex Presented a video tribute artist.

The song “Star by the name of the Sun” is sung by modern Petersburgers: musicians, actors, students and just passers-by.

The video shows how Petersburg was changing - Tsoi's hometown, and how appropriate his songs sound in any context and at any time: in a cassette player, with a guitar or at a noisy party in a non-smoking 2010's bar.

The video consists of allusions to the texts of Tsoi and famous facts about him.

It also turned out that 27 years ago, Choi not only traveled to the US to visit Joanna Stingray, but also spoke to Hollywood stars of the first magnitude.

Unique exclusive shots of this only Choi concert in the United States were available. REN-TV.

A unique entry was found in the archive of the American collector. Personnel, which until now almost no one knew, - the first and last performance of Viktor Tsoi in front of an American audience, held on January 25 1990, in the city of Park City, Utah. At this concert, Choi performed his most iconic songs, but quite differently, without the usual metal in his voice, lyrically.

Record for 27 years was carefully passed from hand to hand and ended up at the double of Viktor Tsoi in Russia.

Choi appeared in the United States immediately after the screening of the cult film “The Needle”, which had the effect of a bombshell at the Sundance independent film festival. Interest in the tape, and to the very Tsoi was just crazy.

All tickets to the "Needle" were sold out in a matter of hours, they flew another week before the show. As Yury Kasparyan recalls, the guitarist of “Kino” who accompanied Tsoi in America, the hall was “stuffed” with Hollywood stars of the first magnitude, but Victor didn’t even notice this. And when he was offered to play another concert in a nightclub - he politely refused.

After this performance, proposals from American and Japanese producers who wanted to invest money in the promotion of Cinema in the West began to fall on Tsoi.

Then everything went to the fact that Choi would truly become a world-class musician, a contract with a large record company would have been signed if it were not for the tragic death of the musician.

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