in the context of the era, it could only have been read one way: we were waiting for changes in society and in our lives,” Alexander Zhitinsky, one of the jury members wrote, 20 odd years later.īut Tsoi apparently had something else entirely in mind when he wrote the song. “Whatever Vitya said later and whatever the social content, the song ‘I Want Changes!’. In the last days of May 1986, at the fourth Leningrad Rock Club Festival at the Nevsky Cultural Center, Viktor Tsoi and his band Kino first performed a collection of songs that would become pillars of Russian rock music and required learning for any Russian teenager with a guitar: “From Now On, It's Our Turn,” “Close the Door Behind Me, I'm Leaving,” and “I Want Changes!” This last song made the festival’s final jury shortlist, along with songs from the album “ Illusions” by Zoopark and “ Love Is All We’ve Got” by Aquarium.
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