Gorky Park

Gorky Park (international title), is a Soviet, American, and Russian rock band formed in 1987 by musician, composer, and producer Stas Namin at his producing centre SNC in the Gorky Park in Moscow.

The band made demo recordings at the SNC studio, and in the summer of 1988, Stas Namin organised Gorky Park's participation in Scorpions concerts in St. Petersburg..In the autumn of 1988, he agreed with the president of the American guitar company Kramer, Dennis Berardi, that he would become the band's manager in the US. Namin and Berardi agreed with Jon Bon Jovi to help the Gorky Park band in the United States. In December 1988, by agreement with Namin, the Bon Jovi band and their manager Doc McGhee arrived in Moscow with Polygram's president Dick Asher, and at the Stas Namin Centre, an agreement was signed to release the band’s album in the United States. Namin sent the band members to record in the US at Berardi Studios in New Jersey, and after the recordings, he brought Gorky Park back to Moscow for a festival.

The band's participation in the Moscow Music Peace Festival, organised by Stas Namin and Doc McGhee and held on 12–13 August 1989 at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, which was broadcast on MTV in 59 countries around the world, became the main springboard to popularity in the United States and other countries. Namin put Gorky Park on the festival broadcast along with Bon Jovi, Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Scorpions, Cinderella, Skid Row and other world stars. After the festival [16], in August 1989, Polygram Records released Gorky Park's first studio album of the same name, Gorky Park, recorded entirely in English, which entered the American Billboard 200 chart in 1989 and brought the band worldwide fame. In 1990, when Namin sent Gorky Park on their first US tour, a conflict occurred within the band and it broke up.

The band's revival happened only 30 years later. Gorky Park's first performance with its new line-up took place in August 2022 in Moscow at the Russian Rock Festival, marking the 35th anniversary of the Stas Namin Centre – SNC at the Green Theatre in Gorky Park. The lead singer of the first line-up, Nikolai Noskov, was as the special guest at this performance.