WORLD : Rock Album Takes Soviets by Storm
Hundreds of enthusiastic young Soviets lined up in a snowstorm outside record stores today to buy a new album by two dozen of the West’s biggest rock stars, and authorities erected steel barricades and dispatched police to control the crowd.
The hoopla was especially great on Kalinin Prospekt outside the Melodiya store, where British rocker Peter Gabriel and Annie Lennox of Eurythmics autographed copies of “Breakthrough.” The two-record album, a compilation of songs previously issued in the West by individuals and groups, was produced by Greenpeace, the international environmental group. International release is scheduled April 25.
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