How they rocked in Iran before the revolution

Rereleases of music from the 1970s by Kourosh Yaghmaei and Googoosh show an exuberant and exploratory spirit.It might be difficult to imagine today, but there was a moment in the pre-Khomeini Iran of the mid-1970s when miniskirts and rock music reigned, where a female pop balladeer wowed crowds of thousands and a man named Kourosh became a guitar hero on a par with Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page.

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