Mikhail Gorbachev Stampedes Back Into Pop Culture With Debut Album
June 23rd, 2009
Remember Mikhail Gorbachev? The go-to reference for late-80s “spot on the head’ jokes that would’ve been emailed around a lot if the internet had existed then? Well he is back in pop culture with a vengeance after releasing an album of Russian ballads that sold for more than $100,000 at a charity auction:
An “anonymous British philanthropist” bought what we suppose is Mikhail Gorbachev’s “debut album”, Songs for Raisa, in London this week, bidding $164,940 (about £100,000) at an auction to benefit the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation.
Gorbachev was there too, and he brought his singing voice. The former Soviet leader warbled a song called Old Letters. “The performance … was greeted with delight and a storm of applause,” said Pavel Palazhchenko, chairman of the Foundation’s press service.
Before we laugh at the randomness of this situation, however, know that…
1) The money came from an anonymous donor to a cancer-fighting charity Gorbachev started in honor of his deceased wife.
2) HE’S ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD. Click that link to listen to the first track, a ballad called “Old Letters.”
I would hereby like to welcome Mr. Gorbachev back into the pop culture consciousness, and will happily embrace any subsequent singles / music videos he releases. Mostly because you figure Yakov Smirnoff can’t be too far behind.
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