UB40 - CCCP

Thus the UBs were to embark on a tour that would take them from California sun to Russian snows. From where money is God to where Lenin is Jesus Christ. The idea was intriguing. How much is really known of the country about which everyone has an opinion. The contradictions were startling. Rennaissance beauty offset by Orwellian gloom. The hand of friendship gloved in suspicion and fear. As exotic as the third world yet unmistakably European. Somebody,somewhere in the russian ministry thought it a good idea to invite the UBs. They would be the first western pop band to enjoy such a privilege. They had been given an offer they couldn’t X