The show was about extended youth, good times and keeping an ear on Western rock.

The winning bands recorded their versions of Western hard rock of the time.

This tradition of covering Western rock would continue until the 1980s, when it was more common to compose original songs.

It was coming from underground, literally - a rich mix of Western rock and Eastern melody.

Western rock is relatively young, therefore it absorbs much of the shaking caused by earthquakes.

"Does this expansion of my horizons include decadent Western rock and roll, then?"

The music had changed, with Western rock dropped for original songs in Czechoslovak.

Turbo-folk combined Western rock and pop styles with traditional folk music vocals.

The very suspicion of Western rock in Communist countries makes the simple act of playing it a charged social and political experience.

Western rock quickly secured bridgeheads in mainstream Soviet culture.