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Marc Almond remembers his first trip to Russia. How could he not? The Soviet Union was approaching its demise; there was no food, no restaurants. “Nothing was working. Every day was drudgery. But I loved it. I felt really at home,” says the singer who, from the 1981 success of his deathless electro-pop No 1, Tainted Love, had lived a glorious, decadent Eighties popstar life.