24 June 1990
I played my last concert Viktor Tsoy — The band Kino headlined and closed the spectacular Moskovsky Komsomolets show at Luzhniki Stadium. Around 70 people packed the stadium. Before the other acts in the concert—the lineup included Alliance, Domino, and Lyube—the crowd chanted "Kino!" In the summer of 1990, Tsoi and his band were at the height of their fame.
And we know that it has always been this way, What is more loved by fate, Who lives by different laws? And to whom to die young
Kino played a 45-minute set. They played iconic tunes like "A Star Named Sun," "A Pack of Cigarettes," "War," "Sorrow," "Blood Type," and "Changes!" The concert was filmed. The musicians weren't happy, saying they played without drive. Their concert schedule had been too tight the day before, he recalled. Georgi Guryanov:
Six months of touring, everyone's exhausted, tired, even Victor, no one can play anymore. Everything is so pompous, everything is played so slowly. At concerts, everything was much more impulsive, but here it's like some kind of funeral marches.
Nevertheless, the group's performance created a sensation. Joanna Stingray described:
The boys screamed and the girls sobbed loudly, as if Christ himself had walked onto the stage. Victor was a symbol of change, a symbol of hope and freedom, a symbol of the magic of rock 'n' roll.
Cigarettes in hands, tea on the table This scheme is simple And there is nothing else - everything is within us: Our hearts require change Our eyes require change In our laughter, and in our tears, and in the pulsation of veins Change, we are waiting for change!
Having finished, Tsoi promised his thousands of fans that he was saying goodbye for a short time:
Well, thank you very much, that's all for now, all the best to you. I think we'll record a new album this summer, start filming a new movie in the fall, and I think you'll see it all in the winter.
It didn't come true. Soon after the concert in Luzhniki, Viktor Tsoi, together with Yuri Kasparyan They left for Jurmala to work on a new album. On August 15, 1990, Tsoi died in a car accident.
Fans were left with recordings of concerts and songs that still resonate today.
