POP/ROCK - Sept. 28, 1987

But then, rockers can be tempermental, no matter where they work. Consider Soviet rocker Alla Pugacheva, who cursed the management at the Pribaltiyskaya Hotel in Leningrad after she was told the luxury suite of her choice was occupied. The tide of letters received from Soviet readers of the government newspaper Izvestia (which published them on Saturday) is running against Pugacheva, who recently had four songs in the Soviet Top 20. “Behind Alla Pugacheva trails a long record of outbursts. It is time to put a stop to them,” wrote N. Skuratovsky of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. Others suggested Pugacheva should be stripped of the title of People’s Artist of the Russian Federation.