Egor and Opizdenevshiye was a Russian
psychedelic rock band. The leader of the band was
Egor Letov (Russian:
Егор Летов). The project appeared in 1990 after Letov's main group
Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Russian:
Гражданская Оборона) was disbanded for a while. The reason for taking a new name was the necessity to cut off all the associations with the name of the former band. Letov, who considered rock and roll more of a religious movement than a genre of music, was afraid of becoming commercialized and therefore specifically adopted a name that could never be allowed by Russian cen…
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