The Beatles Song “Back in the USSR” Connects Hispanic and Ex-Soviet Artists

By Penka Skachkova ,Huffington Post

When Darin Reyes, a 21-year-old graphic designer and artist in Los Angeles, learned that Carter Sexton in Valley Village, California was going to do a show celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to America, he chose to do a record sleeve project on their 1968 song “Back in the USSR.”

A Beatles fan since high school, Darin loves their music for being timeless and always sounding fresh. “Back in the USSR” was especially intriguing to him since it was a parody about something that never happened: the Beatles did not perform in the USSR while they were together because they were perceived to be too western.

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