About the book: 1975 / For almost thirty years of work in professional art, the popular Soviet singer, People's Artist of the USSR, Lenin Prize laureate Lyudmila Zykina has accumulated many impressions, which she decided to share with readers - its viewers and listeners. The book “Song” is a sincere story about childhood and the first, sometimes painful steps to the heights of vocal mastery; this is a very personal, hard-won narrative about working on the song; these are notes about memorable meetings in our country and abroad; this is an excited piece of journalism about the place of song in Soviet culture, about the problems of modern performance.