Asia Live In Moscov 1990

2011, 8th November 1990, Carl Palmer, Geoff Downes, Pat Thrall and John Wetton boarded Aeroflot flight 009 from Heathrow to Moscow. Any misgivings were dispelled when Bob Carruthers announced that he would be filming the project. It seemed a waste to go to Gorbachev's cauldron of change without an audio/visual record of Asias visit. At that time, the political regime could have gone either way - there was as much opposition to glasnost as there was support - anger and confusion were rife. Asia has been brought up, mainly in America, on a diet of red-hot Thatcher/Reagan ´80's capitalism and it was in November 1990 suddenly catapulted into a freezing, penniless, tottering Soviet Union.