Comments on: Strindberg In Hell http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/strindberg-in-hell/ Curated Videos Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:00:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Amy Ponomarev http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/strindberg-in-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-6446 Amy Ponomarev Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:06:43 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=262#comment-6446 Boney M's arrival in Moscow in 1978 was the USSR equivalent of the Beatles appearing on Ed Sullivan. My family in Siberia says that all Boney M songs have entered the pantheon of Russian folk songs. You hear them everywhere. They were the first rock group to be paid in money rather than goods in the USSR. They wrote a special song for the trip, Rasputin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg Look at this USSR TV audience -- still, serious , and scared. They don't act like this when they listen to Boney M at home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmjdZKfumEI Boney M’s arrival in Moscow in 1978 was the USSR equivalent of the Beatles appearing on Ed Sullivan. My family in Siberia says that all Boney M songs have entered the pantheon of Russian folk songs. You hear them everywhere.

They were the first rock group to be paid in money rather than goods in the USSR. They wrote a special song for the trip, Rasputin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg

Look at this USSR TV audience — still, serious , and scared. They don’t act like this when they listen to Boney M at home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmjdZKfumEI

]]> By: Sioflynn http://www.ryeberg.com/curated-videos/strindberg-in-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Sioflynn Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:38:42 +0000 http://ryeberg.com/?p=262#comment-210 thanks for recovering this video! love it and have been trying to find it for eons thanks for recovering this video! love it and have been trying to find it for eons

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