Sweet Home Leningrad
Take your mind back to the days before the fall of the Berlin Wall, in the throes of the Cold War. Suppose somebody would've told you then that you'd live to see the day that a Finnish band called the Leningrad Cowboys would perform live with the Red Army Choir in Russia -- and that they'd be singing "Sweet Home Alabama."
Here's the YouTube proof:
(Hat tip: Russia Blog, via Danger Room.)
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Excellent. Especially considering that most of the choir, and possibly some in the band were singing phonetically and don't know English.
Ted Bean Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:22 PM