BAD TO THE BONE: Discarded X-rays, plus a need in the Soviet Union for bootlegging ‘banned’ culture, equals this.
BACK IN THE USSR: The strange story of Soviet music on the bone.
The iconic images of gramophone grooves cut onto x-rays of skulls, ribcages and bones have captured the collective imagination way beyond the music scene. Now for the first time, the complete story of the Soviet x-ray record has emerged, as told by the people who made it happen.
These stories about how things worked on the other side of the iron curtain are often very interesting.
By Video Archivist Brian Harrod
https://archive.org/details/x-ray-audio-the-documentary-by-video-archivist-brian-harrod