Soviet double
PA Wellington Greenpeace is set to make history with the first big release of Western rock music in the Soviet Union, a spokesman says. An LP entitled “Greenpeace-Break-through". will be a double album on the Soviet State label, Melodiya Records. The greatest names in rock music have donated some of their biggest hits to the project. The Greenpeace album will include songs by U2,
The Pretenders, Eurythmics, Dire Straits, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, INXS, Basia, Belinda Carlisle, World Party, The Thompson Twins, John Farnham, Sade and Terence Trent D’Arby.
Melodiya Records will press and distribute five million units and expects to sell out within days. Sales in the Eastern bloc as a whole are expected to exceed 10 million copies.
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Press, 7 October 1988, Page 23
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