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"Half the World Away" is a song by British rock band Oasis. It is well known as the theme tune to the popular BBC sitcom The Royle Family . The song was written by Oasis' lead guitarist Noel Gallagher , who also provides lead vocals.
So Runs the World Away is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Josh Ritter. It was released on vinyl record on April 17, 2010, as a part of Record Store Day in the United States. The vinyl record came packaged with a CD version of the album as well. [ 1 ]
"Roads to Moscow" is a 1973 song by Scottish rock singer Al Stewart. It appeared on his album Past, Present and Future , and tells the story of the German invasion of Russia during World War II , as seen through the eyes of a Russian soldier who is described by one source as being Alexander Solzhenitsyn .
Cranes in the sky. The poem was originally written in Gamzatov's native Avar language, with many versions surrounding the initial wording.Its famous 1968 Russian translation was soon made by the prominent Russian poet and translator Naum Grebnev, and was turned into a song in 1969, becoming one of the best known Russian-language World War II ballads all over the world.
"Russians" is a song by Sting, from his debut solo album, The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in June 1985, and released as a single in November. The song is a commentary and plea that criticises the then-dominant Cold War foreign policy and doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD) by the United States and the then-existing Soviet Union.
The song was ranked fourth in the list of the 100 best Russian rock songs of the 20th century published by Nashe Radio on December 31, 2000. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2015, the song's lyrics were ranked 30th in the top 100 most popular poetic lines in Russian society, according to the results of a sociological study by Russian Reporter ( Russian ...
"The Twist" (Hank Ballard) – originally released by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side, but going to No. 1 in the US upon being covered by Chubby Checker (released 1959, charted in 1960 and 1962), [1] who would become the artist most associated with the Twist phenomenon.
Russian chanson (Russian: русский шансон, romanized: russkiy shanson; from French "chanson") is a neologism for a musical genre covering a range of Russian songs, including city romance songs, author song performed by singer-songwriters, and blatnaya pesnya or "criminals' songs" that are based on the themes of the urban underclass and the criminal underworld.