Gorky Park (band)

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Gorky Park / Парк Горького
1988
Background information
Origin	Soviet Union  Russia
Genres	Hard rock, glam metal[1]
Years active	1987–1998, 2022–present (reunions: 1999, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019)
Labels	Mercury Records PolyGram SNC Records
Members	Oleg Izotov Sergey Arutyunov Timofei Grigorovich Marco Mendoza Alexey Baev Kenny Aronoff
Past members	Nikolai Noskov Aleksandr Marshal Alexey Belov Yan Yanenkov Alexander Lvov
Website	gorkypark-band.com gorkypark-band.ru gorkypark.group

Gorky Park (international title), aka GP, or Парк Горького (Russian title) is a Soviet and Russian hard rock band formed in 1987 by musician, composer and producer Stas Namin at his producing centre SNC in Moscow.^[2][3] It is the only Soviet and Russian band to have some success on the MTV and Billboard charts and become world famous.^[2][4]

The main springboard to the heights of popularity in the USSR, United States and other countries was the band's participation in the Moscow International Peace Festival, organised by Stas Namin and Doc McGhee. It took place on August 12–13, 1989 at the Luzhniki Stadium under the motto "Rock Against Drugs" and was broadcast on MTV in 59 countries. Gorky Park participated in the festival alongside Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Scorpions, Cinderella and Skid Row.^[2][3][4][5] After the festival, in August 1989, US PolyGram released GP's first and only studio album of the same name, Gorky Park, recorded entirely in English by the original band, which entered the 1989 US Billboard 200^[4] chart and brought the band worldwide fame.^[2][6]

In the original line-up, with lead vocalist Nikolay Noskov and general producer Stas Namin, the group lasted only three and a half years.^[2][3] In 1990, when Namin sent Gorky Park to its first US tour, there was a conflict in the group, and Noskov left the group. They continued with Alexander "Big Sasha" Minkov as singer.^[2][6]

After 30 years, Stas Namin revived his project, and on August 28, 2022^[7][8][9] the first concert performance of the band in the new line-up took place at the Russian rock festival "SNC. 35 Years" in Moscow Gorky Park.^[10][11] The special guest at this performance was the leader-vocalist of the original Gorky Park, Nikolay Noskov. He passed the baton to the new musicians,^[9][11][10] The new line-up of GP are musicians from Russia and the US, singing about Love, Peace and Freedom.^[12][8][10]