Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/20/2009

Letov, Foul-Mouthed Rock Legend, Dead at 43

By Alexander Osipovich
Punk rock icon Yegor Letov, who was once committed to a mental hospital by Soviet authorities angered by his profane and fiercely anti-Communist lyrics, has died of heart failure at age 43.

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