Living in the USSR, we were redeemed from the neccesity of making a choice. As the western music lovers had Barbra Streisand and Tina Turner in the seventies, we had Alla Pugachova. Somewhere the times, they were a-changing, Diana Ross and Gloria Gaynor conquered the charts around the world, and we still admired Alla Pugachova. Annie Lennox and Madonna came, but we kept loving Alla Pugachova. Then the Soviet Union collapsed, and an era of challenges began, first Maria Carey and Alanis Morissette arrived, then Shakira and Amy Winehouse, and so it was a particularly soothing and safe feeling to have Alla Pugachova....
