Which live album did Billy Joel record during the Soviet leg of his 1987 Bridge tour? The album was Kohuept.
Kohuept is Billy Joel’s second live album, released on October 26, 1987. It was recorded during the Soviet portion of The Bridge tour, with performances in Moscow and Leningrad. The title is a transliteration of the Russian word “концерт,” meaning “concert,” and is commonly rendered in English as Kohuept or Kohliept.
The Soviet concerts were historically significant. Joel performed six shows—three in Moscow and three in Leningrad—during a period when glasnost was making cultural exchange with the West more possible. His band became one of the earliest major American rock acts to perform in the Soviet Union, and the tour was also associated with the first live rock radio broadcast in Soviet history.
The album is sometimes confused with A Matter of Trust: The Bridge to Russia, a later archival release that expanded and repackaged material from the Soviet concerts. Kohuept is the original 1987 live album. Its unusual title can also make it look like a typo, but it reflects the Cyrillic-to-Latin transliteration.