According to the popular legend, the famous group The Beatles came to the USSR and even gave a closed concert. We figure out if this is so.

Several generations of Soviet bitlomanians were sure: the Liverpools did not just fly to Moscow, but even played a concert. The versions diverged only on the issue of the place of this concert. The following options are found in the literature:

- Rifle and landing strip of Vnukovo Airport;
-Rifle and landing strip of Domodedovo Airport;
- Kremlin Palace of Congresses;
- Nikolina Gora;
- The embassy of Great Britain;
- All kinds of provincial clubs.

As for the circumstances of the visit, they also vary:

The Beatles flew on tour to Japan, their flight lingered, and the guys, without wasting time, pleased people at the airport;
The Beatles received an invitation from the Soviet authorities, but already at Sheremetyevo Airport they unexpectedly learned about the abolition of the concert, played right on the flight field, after which they flew back;
The plane with the Beatles was already preparing for landing when the authorities banned the performance and deployed a aircraft;
The Beatles flew at the invitation of members of the Politburo and played for them with children;
A few similar versions.

The main “evidence” of The Beatles arrival in the camp of the Communists was the legendary song Back in the Ussr (“Again in the USSR”). It tells how the musicians re -fly to the Soviet Union and anticipate the trip.

The authors of the book "Back in USSR, or by the waves of our memory" Spent A whole investigation, but they could not find a single living witness of the concert. At the same time, Paul McCartney itself is a legend about the concert does not confirm. The song that fell into the title of the book is called a parody of the hit of Chuck Berry Back in the USA. And indeed, if you compare the texts, then the plot’s similarity is striking.

But Bitloman Alexander Medvedev I went Further, he found the man who, according to him, was at the Beatle concert in the waiting room of Sheremetyevo Airport in the winter of 1966. Considering that the history of the musicians is painted almost in a per milesuit, I had to dig a little to the side. And then it turned out that in the same January at the airport he made a refueling aircraft of the musicians of the legendary British group The Kinks. In the biographies of the group members, however, the January of the previous year is mentioned in this context.

One way or another, but, according to the evidence of Soviet eyewitnesses, the guys were asked to brighten up a boring expectation of the flight, and they arranged a mini-concert on acoustics. Seeing a four hairy British guys in front of them, the audience decided that these were the same Beatles. The virtuoso game of musicians scattered the last suspicions of onlookers. They told friends, they handed them further, and the legend began to grow in details.

American writer John Steinbek toldLike his bearded, Soviet police officers enthusiastically mistaken for Ernest Hemingway. It seems that the Kinks and The Beatles have happened like a similar story.

P. S. The influential artists like Nikita Theological did not contribute to the dream of millions of residents of the country of Soviets to see their idols live.