The composition of the time machine in different years. Another biography

JOURNEY ON THE "TIME MACHINE"

It often happens that musical group or solo artist become a symbol for many people whole era. Even personal memories seem to be decorated with their music, and it is already impossible to imagine the past decades without their songs.

Such a creative beacon has become group "Time Machine", whose many years of work influenced the formation of the worldview of millions of fans.

That's how it all started

Back in 1968, a rock band was formed within the walls of Moscow school No. 19, which the students called The Kids. Current older generation he remembers well that in those years there was rarely a school in which they would not play their own vocal and instrumental ensemble. This fashion was easily explained by the general enthusiasm for the songs of Western idols of those years - bands, The Rolling Stones and other musical celestials.

IN group The Kids then performed with a friend Mikhail Yashin, vocal parts performed by Larisa Kashpero and Nina Baranova. The guys did not hide their love for English-language music, openly imitated Western idols, performed at frequent school parties and concerts of amateur groups.

Soon fate smiled at the schoolchildren and gave them a meeting with the professional vocal and instrumental ensemble "Atlanta". The musicians came to the school new Year's Eve and gave a concert. During the break, Makarevich and his friends approached the guests to look at their bass guitars. Naturally, the school team did not have such tools. The guys saw them only in the photo with. The head of the Atlants, Alexander Sikorsky, was curious about what the young men were performing and played along with them on the bass guitar, noting that without this instrument they would hardly make a real rock band. Later, Andrei Makarevich recalled that, having heard this unimaginable sound live for the first time, young musicians made their choice finally and irrevocably. This evening the guys believed in themselves.

"Machinists"

The following year, The Kids group was slightly transformed - it was replenished with the same fanatically in love with the Beatles students of the capital's school number 20. This was the beginning of a long fruitful journey. Without changing the English language, the guys gave their group a new name - Time Machines. It became a prototype of the future group "Time Machine", but in the plural.

The composition of the "Machines" has become exclusively male. Andrey Makarevich was responsible for the guitar and vocals. By the way, only he will be a permanent member of all subsequent lineups of the group. Igor Mazaev and Pavel Rubin played bass guitars, Alexander Ivanov played rhythm guitar, Sergei Kavagoe played keyboards, and Yuri Borzov was the drummer.

In 1969, the guys managed to record the first songs under the Time Machines brand. Their repertoire mainly consisted of cover versions. famous compositions famous British and American bands, but they also performed English-language songs own composition.Only after a while Andrei Makarevich began to write texts on mother tongue. Like many other groups, "Machines" fell under the influence of the hippie movement, and this could not but affect both their songs and their lifestyle.

A new decade began for Yuri Borzov and Andrei Makarevich with significant event. They both become students of the Moscow Architectural Institute. Comprehending the wisdom of architecture, they do not leave music lessons and continue to climb the creative ladder. At the institute, they met Alexei Romanov, who soon joined the "Machines". And in 1971, Alexander Kutikov became a member of the team. He took the place of Igor Mazaev, who was drafted into the army.

Birth of the "Time Machine"

Despite some fame and the beginnings of popularity, the team still remained amateur. But at this time, the Time Machines group successfully performs in a beat club, which was created in Moscow under the auspices of the city committee of the Komsomol. I wonder what year before that, Makarevich and the company were not accepted there, reproaching the musicians with a “low performing level”. It is curious that at the very beginning of the journey the group The Beatles refused to record songs for the same reason.

The Russian-speaking and now world-famous name of the group was first officially announced in 1973. Since then, the group has forever become "Time Machine". Until 1975, the team had to perform on dance floors and participate in occasional concerts. Then in the life of the musicians was clearly not the best period, because of which the composition of the group changed several times.

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The group's surge in popularity was largely due to their acquaintance in 1976 with, which happened at the Tallinn Festival. Now the musicians have the opportunity to often come to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) with concerts. The city on the Neva has always warmly welcomed the "Time Machine", giving group an impetus to real success.

In the same period, the team began experimenting with sound. When the saxophonist Yevgeny Legusov and the trumpeter Sergei Velitsky joined the "Time Machine", this gave the compositions a new expressiveness.

Only in 1980 she received the status of an official group and the opportunity to perform from the Rosconcert. Hovhannes Melik-Pashaev was appointed artistic director of the group, and Andrey Makarevich became the musical director. In the same year, the team waited great success. At the first official rock festival in the Soviet Union in Tbilisi, "Time Machine" was awarded main prize, and the record company Melodiya released her first album, Good Hour. Among other songs in Georgia, the song "While the Candle Burns", which later became a cult song, sounded.

Creativity outside the box

The group's success at the festival in Georgia was explained not only by the professional skill of performing compositions. By by and large, this was the first time that Soviet stage musical groups performed, which stood out sharply from the large faceless, but ideologically diligent masses. Here why, discouraged by such a phenomenal success, the organizers of the concert made sure that the winners left the festival before it was fully completed. The party leadership then drew conclusions - it was the first and last such festival in the USSR. People Soviet era remember well how comprehensive the ideology was, it covered all spheres of life, and mass art was under tight control. For example, for the public to see new program, film or performance, they had to get the approval and approval of various authorities and artistic councils, which often knew absolutely nothing about art and took into account only the requirements of the main line communist party. Naturally, no rock bands, let alone rock festivals, fit into this line, so the organizers of this weekly musical holiday were punished.

One day the world will bend under us

The 1980s became for "Time Machines" a period of triumph. Moscow and Leningrad (St. Petersburg) were in the arms of "machine mania". The excitement at the concerts could only be compared with the insane popularity of The Beatles. Buses had to bring musicians to the Sports Palace in a roundabout way, because the building was attacked by thousands of fans. The enthusiastic crowd was ready to crush their idols in their arms.

And when ideological censorship was finally abolished, it was time to sum up the twenty-year journey of the Time Machine. The group's frontman Andrey Makarevich published the book "Everything is very simple", on the pages of which he frankly spoke about what the team had to endure during this time.

Now the group has the opportunity to freely travel to foreign tours, participate in festivals and delight the audience with their new compositions. Despite all the economic hardships of the 1990s and the general decline of culture, it has always remained on the crest of popularity. In ten years, 8 albums and songs were released that became hits out of time and space - “Bonfire”, “One day the world will bend under us”, “She goes through life laughing”, “He was older than her”, “My friend ”, “For those who are at sea”, “Turn”, “Puppets”, “Blue Bird” and others. Not a single significant concert and not a single festival could do without the participation of Andrei Makarevich's group in those years.

There will still be...

Entered the new millennium with a new keyboard player - famous musician Andrei Derzhavin. In the history of the group, another search for fresh forms of sound began, in particular, the use of various audio effects. At the same time, the team did not stop touring and releasing discs.

In 2012, a former member of the group, Maxim Kapitanovsky, made the film Taymashin, dedicated to the group. It was this word that denoted the group in Soviet time in the black lists of ideologically unreliable musical groups. In the same year, Evgeny Margulis left the group, who had worked for the Time Machine for many years. The musician decided to devote himself entirely to another project. Soon his place in the group was taken by Igor Khomich. With such changes, the Time Machine team approached the 45th anniversary in 2014, performing their ageless hits at the anniversary concert.

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The appearance in the group of Sergei Kawagoe (who was Japanese by nationality) was a strong impetus to the development of the team, because he had two electric guitars, sent by relatives from Japan. With their help, the musicians extracted a sound that had previously been heard only on branded records.

In the summer of 2014, Andrei Makarevich spoke in the city of Svyatogorsk, Donetsk region, in front of children who were forced to leave their homes due to the armed conflict in the Donbass. This event caused a flurry of indignation in Russia, and concerts "Time Machines" canceled in several cities. Information appeared in the press about a split within the band in connection with the position of the musicians regarding the events in Ukraine. The band members themselves denied these reports.

Updated: February 25, 2017 by: Elena

Group "Time Machine" year of creation - 1968. (Moscow city)

Brief biography :

It was organized in one of the Moscow schools. Founder of all famous Andrew Makarevich. He performed a year earlier in the vocal-guitar quartet "The Kids" at school parties.

Songs were often sung English language. (Because of the desire to be like gr. "").

IN initial composition « time machines» entered:

vocals, guitar - A. Makarevich;
guitar - Alexander Ivanov;
bass guitar - Pavel Rubin;
piano - Igor Mazaev;
drums - Yuri Borzov.

In connection with the need to improve the professional sound, changes were soon made in the team: Rubin, Ivanov and Mazaev were replaced by:
Alexander Kutikov (vocals, bass) and Sergey Kavagoe (keyboards). And a little later in 1970
Yu.Borzov was replaced by Maxim Kapitanovsky - a drummer (already known in Moscow). But after 2 years he leaves. And not finding a worthy replacement for him, the group breaks up.

For about a year, the fate of the MV team was intertwined with the Best Years group.
survived Time of Troubles, autumn 1973 Time Machine group makes itself felt again, performing on dance floors and southern resorts of the country, constantly changing the composition.
In 1975 Kutikov left the group.

By the beginning of 1975, the composition of the MV had stabilized: Makarevich, Kawagoe - sat down at the drums and Evgeny Margulis (bass, vocals). They performed music of different directions: blues, country, rock and roll.

In March 1976, the MV team performs very successfully at the Tallinn Days popular music and later they give several concerts in Leningrad, after which they became mega-popular.
They even managed to light up in the film "Afonya", in which their hit "You or Me" from the album "Sunny Island" sounded. The composition of the MV was periodically updated.

In 1978, their first magnetic album "Birthday" was released.

Summer 1979 Internal disagreements lead to the repeated disintegration of the MV team. But in the fall of the same year, Makarevich enters the stage with a new line-up: A. Kutikov (bass, vocals), who returned; Peter Podgorodetsky (keyboards, vocals); Valeny Efremov (drums) And with a new repertoire in March 1980, they became the laureate of the All-Union Rock Festival Spring Rhythms. (Tbilisi-80).

The group received the recognition of many people, but in the spring of 1982, MV renews its ranks again. (Already thanks to countless artistic councils)
Makarevich himself starred in little-known films (together with the group). And in 1986, when cultural policy country has changed MV is again beginning to gain momentum and achieve creative success.
The most recognizable songs over all these years have become: "For those who are at sea", "Turn", "Blue Bird", "Our House", "Puppets".

In the 90s, 7 albums were released.
Most famous hits that time and
In 1993 - MV celebrates its 25th anniversary with a concert on Red Square.
In January 1999 - the group conducts the XXX Years of the Time Machine tour.

In 2000 - MV toured with. And since the same year, she has been a regular participant in the Wings rock festival.
In 2007, MV play 2 free concerts, in Moscow and St. Petersburg. And in 2008 - a free concert in Ryazan.

December 11, 2009 - the group celebrated its 40th anniversary at the Olympic Sports Complex (Moscow).

In 2010 - MV participant of two major rock festivals Russia: "Invasion" and "Rock over the Volga"

The current composition of the team " Time Machine":

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Biography

Moscow is a state city, and proximity to the anvils of power filled young seekers of truth to go to official institutions and convince these institutions that the music played by them - young - was needed and useful to the people. It took so much time and effort that actually there was not much strength left for writing songs. The Time Machine is an exception.

Time Machine is a Soviet and Russian rock band, one of the pioneers in the rock music of the USSR, founded by Andrey Makarevich in 1969. As part of the "Time Machine" in different years such musicians as Alexander Kutikov, Evgeny Margulis, Pyotr Podgorodetsky and others became famous. Because of a large number composers, the genre of the group is eclectic and uses elements of classic rock, rock n roll, blues, bard.

1970s: founding
A group called The Kids was created by Andrei Makarevich in 1968 from classmates. The ensemble gave its first performance when VIA Atlanta came to the school and gave young musicians a short practice on their equipment. In 1969, the group became known as the Time Machines (Time Machines), and the songs were performed in English. In 1973 the name was changed to singular"Time Machine", which remains to this day.

In the first years, the composition remains unstable, and the team remains amateur. At concerts, the band performs cover versions songs The Beatles and their songs in English, written in imitation. In the early 1970s, the group included: Andrei Makarevich (guitar, vocals), Alexander Kutikov (bass guitar), Sergei Kavagoe (drums), the rest of the members are constantly changing. For some time, Alexei Romanov, the future founder of Resurrection, played in the Time Machine. In 1975, Kutikov left the Time Machine, who went to the Leap Summer group, but remained the sound engineer of the Time Machine. He is replaced by Yevgeny Margulis, to whom Makarevich transfers bassist duties and from now on plays only the solo guitar. Margulis also starts writing songs for a blues-inclined band.

Having performed in 1976 at the Tallinn Songs of Youth in? 76 festival in Estonia and received the first prize, Time Machine gained popularity for the first time. In 1978, the band recorded their debut album, It's Been So Long..., which wasn't released by an official label until 1992. In the same year, the audio fairy tale The Little Prince based on the fairy tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupery was recorded, which in fact was an album of songs from the Time Machine with text interludes from the book. Musicians are beginning to frequently perform in the theater, playing songs built into performances, which helps circumvent the ban on private concerts.

1980s: line-up with Zaitsev
In 1979 major scandal related to financial issues, leads to the almost complete disintegration of the group. Margulis, Kavagoe and Alexey Romanov leave Makarevich and create the Resurrection group. Teaming up with Kutikov again, Makarevich is gaining new composition, which includes keyboardist Pyotr Podgorodetsky and drummer Valery Efremov. Podgorodetsky wrote several songs for the group with a humorous bent, which he performed himself, but left the group in 1982, joining the troupe of Iosif Kobzon. His place is taken by Alexander Zaitsev, who, unlike Peter, was not the third vocalist.
Andrei Makarevich receives a diploma from Yuri Saulsky at the Tbilisi-80 festival

In the new line-up, the group made a triumphant debut at the Tbilisi Rock Festival in 1980 and received the first prize for the songs Snow and Crystal City, ahead of Autograph and Aquarium. The popularity of the group leaves the underground and turns into an all-Union one. The time machine is allowed on television (the Musical Ring program), radio, the songs Turn, Candle, Three Windows, written back in the 1970s, become popular. "Turn" for 18 months leads the hit parade "Soundtrack" Moskovsky Komsomolets. "Time Machine" takes part in the soundtrack for the film "Soul" and the animated series "Monkeys".

Rosconcert signs an agreement with the group, giving the green light to legal concerts. In the early 1980s, the rock band actively toured the cities of the USSR, gaining a significant army of fans. The most popular compositions of that period: "Jumps", "Blue Bird", "Puppets" are heard in restaurants and at weddings. Large circulations the group's underground magnetic albums diverge.

In 19821984, during the reign of Andropov and Chernenko, campaigns began in the USSR against amateur musical groups. In the course of this, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article by Nikolai Krivomazov "Blue bird stew" (the title refers to the song "Time Machine" " Blue bird”), where the group and its music were subjected to unconstructive criticism. The article was compiled on the initiative letter of the group famous figures art it was signed by the writer Viktor Astafiev, chief director of the Krasnoyarsk state theater Opera and Ballet Maximillian Vysotsky Glinka Evgeny Oleinikov, director of the Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic Leonid Samoilov, conductor Nikolai Silvestrov, poet and playwright Roman Solntsev.

Meanwhile, Andrei Makarevich starred in leading role in the movie "Start Over" main character copied from him. Several songs from the Time Machine are heard in the film. Only in 1986 the first official album "Time Machine" was released "In good hour» despite the fact that the material of unofficial magnetic albums consists of several dozen songs. Following him comes the album "Rivers and Bridges". In 1987 "Time Machine" again the winner of the "Soundtrack" for the year. Andrei Makarevich is second only to Valery Leontiev in the ranking of singers. The group makes the first tour abroad.

1990s: with Margulis and Podgorodetsky
In 1989 "Time Machine" celebrates its 20th anniversary. Margulis and Podgorodetsky participate in the anniversary concert at the Luzhniki Palace of Sports. Due to a personal conflict with Zaitsev, and also, according to the band members, because of his problems with alcohol and drugs, leading to the disruption of rehearsals, Makarevich was forced to refuse his services. As a result, Margulis and Podgorodetsky returned to the group. Thus, the group becomes four composers and a vocalist from five members at the same time. The next anniversary concert of "Time Machine", timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the group, takes place on Red Square with the participation of several invited groups, including Aquarium, DDT, Black Obelisk, Chaif ​​and others. The performance, which lasted about six hours, was broadcast live on Channel One of Russian television, gathering a huge audience. About 300,000 people attended the concert itself.

Alexander Kutikov creates the record company Sintez records and becomes the group's producer. Thanks to this, the Time Machine is no longer dependent on the state monopoly of the Melodiya company. Finally, the double album "It was so long ago" with material from the 1970s is released. In the 1990s, seven albums of the group were released, the most popular of which were Freelance Commander of the Earth, Breaking Away, Cardboard Wings of Love, and Hours and Signs. Among the most famous songs of this period “One day the world will cave in under us”, the video for which was broadcast on Russian TV channels.

"Time Machine" received official recognition in post-perestroika Russia. In 1991, during the putsch of the State Emergency Committee, all five "machinists" took part in the defense of the White House, for which they were subsequently awarded medals "Defender of Free Russia". In 1999, the musicians also received the "Order of Honor", and in 2003 - "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree. In 1996, along with many other groups, "Machine" participated in the campaign "Vote or lose!" in support of the candidacy of Boris Yeltsin.

2000s: Modern period
In 1999, the group celebrates its 30th anniversary. Immediately after the end of the concert at the Olympic Sports Complex (December 1999), Peter Podgorodetsky was fired from the group. Among possible causes dismissals of the band's musicians and critics indicate Peter's problems with drugs (cocaine addiction), skipping rehearsals and others. His place is taken by an old acquaintance of Makarevich Andrey Derzhavin.

In 2000, "Time Machine" toured with the "Resurrection" group, where Margulis worked in parallel, as part of the "50 Years for Two" tour. The album “A place where there is light” is released, the song of the same name falls into the “Chart Dozen”, the video for it is broadcast on television. Since 2000, "Time Machine" has been a regular participant in the "Wings" rock festival.

In 2004, the album "Machinically" was released, two songs from it were included in the soundtrack for the television series "Dancer". In 2007, the album "Time Machine" was released, recorded at Abbey Road Studios. The song "Fly away" gets into the Chart Dozen. With the financial and informational support of Avtoradio, the group plays two free concerts: on September 22, 2007 at the Tushino airfield in Moscow, where it gathers about 50,000 spectators, and on September 23 - at Palace Square in St. Petersburg, where the number of viewers exceeds 60,000. On June 8, 2008, with the support of TNK-BP, Time Machine plays free concert in the city of Ryazan on Lenin Square, which gathers about 20,000 spectators.

Why parting with keyboardists is always accompanied by scandals, NSN told former musicians"Time machines".

After it became known that keyboardist of "Time Machine" Andrey Derzhavin will not take part in a tour of Ukraine, a lot of speculation and versions have appeared about what really happened in the team. The media and social networks first of all found a "Crimean trace" in this story. Allegedly, back in 2015, the group's manager Anton Chernin reported on the split: that, they say, Derzhavin and group director Vladimir Sapunov supported the annexation of the peninsula to Russia, and bass player Alexander Kutikov and Makarevich supported Ukraine.

The musicians themselves call the version of Derzhavin's departure because of Crimea a fake. Whatever it was, his possible dismissal was definitely not an ordinary event. By the way, the previous keyboardist of "Time Machine" Peter Podgorodetsky, who worked in the group for almost 10 years, also left it with a scandal. The departure of his predecessors - Sergei Kavagoe and Alexander Zaitsev - was also accompanied by unpleasant incidents. Reviewer NSN decided to look into the so-called "keyboard curse" in "Time Machine".

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The story of the removal of Andrei Derzhavin began to be actively discussed after a post on the social network Ukrainian journalist Aidera Muzhdabaeva, who put forward the version of the musician's departure because of his support for the annexation of Crimea to Russia. “If the information is correct, then thanks to Andrei Vadimovich (and, possibly, Alexander Kutikov) for a clear understanding of the situation. And, of course, it’s good that the Ukrainians, with their adherence to principles, helped the legendary rockers, friends of Ukraine, get rid of the “Russian-world” fool in their group, ”he wrote in his Facebook.

Permanent leader Andrei Makarevich, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, called this nonsense. At the same time, he hinted that there are some “personal internal things” in the group, which are still premature to discuss.

By personal initiative, Derzhavin's non-participation in the Ukrainian tour and bass guitarist, vocalist and composer of "Time Machine" Alexander Kutikov. “Derzhavin is not going on tour in Ukraine own initiative. Why he does not go, this is a question for him, and not for us. And the rumors are all reprints of some journalists, as there were reprints before the official statement of our director Volodya Sapunov that he was also dismissed from the team. It's all false," he said. NSN musician.

At the same time, he Vladimir Sapunov in conversation with NSN that he left the post of director of the "Time Machine" on November 2 on his own initiative. About the possible departure of Derzhavin, he said that the keyboardist would not accompany the band only on a tour of Ukraine. Sapunov did not speak about his future prospects in the group.

Andrei Derzhavin at the request NSN to comment on the rumors about a split within the "Time Machine" because of the "Crimean issue", with a refusal and hung up.

Later on Monday, November 13, on Andrey Makarevich's page in Facebook a significant post appeared, where the leader of the team noted that good band it turns out "only from dissidents", and Derzhavin's position on the Crimea does not interest him. “The group is a special association, the relationship of the musicians in it is very close, almost (gentlemen hussars, be silent!) intimate. Imagine that a family lived for many years - and suddenly it scatters. Yes, they themselves can not always explain what went wrong. And then they are summoned to the public and shouted - confess, are you because of the Crimea? Well, really, it’s funny, ”the musician wrote in his post.

AWESOME KEYBOARDS

For almost half a century of existence of the "Time Machine" in the team, four keyboardists have changed. The departure of each of them was associated with scandalous stories- alcohol abuse, discipline problems, etc.

Sergey Kavagoe was a co-founder of the band, played keyboards and bass guitar for ten years. The reason for his departure from the group after one of the performances in 1979 is described by music journalist Mikhail Margolis in his book “A Long Turn: The History of the Time Machine Group”. “Kavagoe and Margulis had a ritual: in the middle of the concert, when Makarevich alone performed a couple of songs under acoustic guitar, jump backstage and, like a hussar, grab a glass of alcohol with a screw. At a concert for avant-garde artists, they grabbed a couple. Together with Kawagoe, he left the team and Evgeny Margulis.

Problems not only with alcohol, but also with drugs, according to the recollections of people close to the team, also had another keyboard player - Alexandra Zaitseva. The same book by Mikhail Margolis contains an interview former member"Time Machines" Maxim Kapitanovsky: “The hare acted then like a real fool. He drank, drank, disappeared, and then returned, almost half an hour before the first concert at the Sports Palace, pink, clean-shaven, and even rude to Makarevich, believing that he had done nothing wrong. And this was after the group, looking for him, called hospitals, morgues, etc. for a whole week. Of course, he was immediately fired.

The most scandalous was the parting with Peter Podgorodetsky- he was fired from the team in 1999 after anniversary concert on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the rock band. He himself said that the reason was political disagreements. After his departure, he spoke extremely impartially about his former colleagues.

In conversation with NSN on the subject of the possible dismissal of Andrei Derzhavin, Podgorodetsky also did not skimp on statements addressed to the musicians of the group. “I believe that it was not the team with the keyboard players who were ever unlucky, but on the contrary, that the keyboard players were not lucky with the team. This is the curse of the Time Machine,” he said.

Podgorodetsky is convinced that keyboardists have always been the best part rock bands that are "the most professional musicians". “Plus, Zhenya Margulis is the only one from the squad whom I can mention. The rest is all terry amateur performance, ”shared his opinion with NSN Peter Podgorodetsky.

VIEW FROM THE OUTSIDE

Work colleagues and Russian journalists the version about the "curse of keyboard players" was not supported. In conversation with NSN author of a series of books about music Alexander Kushnir called the topic of Derzhavin's possible departure "tightly inflated." The times when the bands were a team of like-minded people, in his opinion, are long gone, and it is completely normal that members change in a rock band. “For the last 40 years, the formula for a rock band model has been a leader, a maximum of two leaders, plus an accompanying line-up. With the possible exception of "Bi-2", where there are two leaders, rock groups - "Mumiy Troll", "Nautilus Pompilius", DDT is a leader plus a kind of orchestra, which can range from two to ten people. “Time Machine” is Andrey Makarevich plus the accompanying staff, no matter how offensive it is to someone, ”said NSN Kushnir.

"Fake" called this news and singer Yuri Loza. He was surprised that the musicians who had worked together for so many years could expel a member from the band because of their position in the Crimea. "Who got kicked out? Andryukha? Something cool, I think. Because they worked together for so many years, and kicked out on such grounds ... It seems to me that this news is fake. I don’t think that because of such nonsense they will part, ”Yuri Loza said in a comment“ Federal Agency news".

Whether Andrey Derzhavin will really leave the band and the "keyboard curse" will be activated once again, it's hard to say now. In any case, over the next few weeks - until the tour in Ukraine ends. Well, or until Derzhavin speaks ...

Text source - Wikipedia
Beginning of the band's biography " Time Machine". 1968 - spring 1970.
School No. 19 (named after Belinsky) Moscow, Kadashevsky 1st lane, 3a. Here the group "Time Machine" was formed. The predecessor of the "Time Machine" was a group called "The Kids", formed in the 19th Moscow school in 1968. It included:

Andrey Makarevich - guitar
Mikhail Yashin (son of the poet and writer Alexander Yashin) - guitar
Larisa Kasperko - vocals
Nina Baranova - vocals

The group sang Anglo-American folk songs, performed at school parties. Recordings have not been preserved, only one of the songs of that period can be heard on the disc "Unreleased" - this song "This Happened to Me", which sang about uncomplicated love and parting. The group gave concerts in Moscow schools, where it was possible to agree, but did not have much success, although they often performed at school amateur performances.

The turning point, according to Makarevich’s recollections, was the day when he came to school with a concert by VIA Atlanta, whose leader Alexander Sikorsky allowed young musicians to play a couple of songs on their equipment during a break and even played along with the schoolchildren on the bass guitar, with which they were completely we are not acquainted. After this event, in 1969, the first composition of the group was formed from the high school students of two Moscow schools, called the Time Machines (in English, in the plural, by analogy with the Beatles, Rolling Stones and other Western groups). The name of the group was invented by Yuri Borzov. The group includes students of school No. 19: Andrei Makarevich (guitar, vocals), Igor Mazaev (bass guitar), Yuri Borzov (drums), Alexander Ivanov (rhythm guitar), Pavel Rubin (bass guitar), and also studied in neighboring school number 20 Sergey Kavagoe (keyboards).

After the group is formed, immediately internal conflict because of the repertoire: the majority wants to sing the songs of the Beatles, Makarevich insists on performing less well-known Western material, arguing that the Beatles sing too well and unprofessional imitation of them would look pathetic. The group splits, Kawagoe, Borzov and Mazaev try to organize a group at school number 20, but the attempt is unsuccessful and the Time Machines reunite soon.

In this composition, the very first tape recording was made, of eleven English-language songs written by the band members. At concerts, the group performs cover versions of songs of English and American groups and their songs in English, written in imitation, but very quickly appear in the repertoire and own songs in Russian, texts for which are written by Makarevich. Big influence The style of the group was influenced by the principles of the hippie movement, which became popular among part of the Soviet youth in the early 1970s.

Remaining after high school participants (1970-1972):
Andrey Makarevich - guitar, vocals
Sergei Kawagoe - keyboards
Igor Mazaev - bass guitar
Yuri Borzov - drums

Andrei Makarevich and Yuri Borzov enter the Moscow Architectural Institute, where they meet Alexei Romanov, who played in the institute's rock band. On March 8, 1971, a group concert was held at the Moscow Architectural Institute, at which Kutikov, invited there, met with Makarevich.

In 1971, the group was based for some time in the recreation center Energetik. In the first years, the composition remains unstable, and the team is amateur. In the fall of 1971, Kawagoe invites Alexander Kutikov to replace Mazaev, who was drafted into the army (the first concert with his participation took place on November 3, 1971), then, at the suggestion of Kutikov, Max Kapitanovsky, who previously played in the Second Wind group, sits down at the drums instead of Borzov, who left for the group of Alexei Romanov. In 1972, Kapitanovsky was also drafted into the army, and Sergey Kavagoe, in order not to look for a new person in the group, was transferred to drums. Despite being completely unfamiliar with drums, he learned to play very quickly and remained the band's drummer until 1979. Until the mid-1970s, the main trio of musicians remained Makarevich (guitar, vocals), Kutikov (bass guitar) and Kawagoe (drums); the rest of the members are constantly changing.

In the summer of 1972, Kutikov and Makarevich were invited as session musicians to the then-famous group The Best Years, led by Renat Zobnin; the musicians agree, because due to the employment of Kawagoe, who decided to enter Moscow State University, "Machines" still cannot perform at this time in full force. The group goes to the Black Sea to perform in front of vacationers in the international student camp "Burevestnik-2". Concerts mainly perform "one-on-one" hits Western groups(Sergey Grachev sings), but part of the program is devoted to songs from the repertoire of "Time Machines" performed by Makarevich. Upon returning from the south, joint performances continue for some time, but soon the alliance breaks up. For some time after the collapse, the drummer is delayed in the "Machines" best years» Yuri Fokin and Igor Saulsky periodically plays keyboards for about a year.

In 1973, under pressure from the public, the name of the group changed to a single number - "Time Machine". For some time, Alexei Romanov, the future founder of Resurrection, sings in MV; he becomes the first and only "liberated vocalist" of the group in its entire history. Romanov does not stay long and soon leaves the group. Firma "Melody" releases a vinyl disc with a recording of the vocal trio "Zodiac" (Dmitry Linnik's trio) accompanied by "Time Machine". This becomes the first mention of the group in the official annals. As Makarevich wrote, "... even such a trifle helped us to exist: in the eyes of any bureaucratic idiot, the ensemble that had a record is no longer just hippies from the gateway."

From the fall of 1973 until early 1975, the group went through a "troubled time", performed on dance floors and sessions, played "for table and shelter" in southern resorts and often changed lineup. For a year and a half, at least 15 musicians passed through the group.

In the fall of 1974, Makarevich was expelled from the institute under a formal pretext and he got a job as an architect at the State Institute for the Design of Theaters and Spectacular Facilities (Giproteatr). The first experience of filming takes place - the group is invited to star in an episode of the film "Afonya" directed by Georgy Danelia as an amateur group at the dance. Danelia officially buys the rights to two songs for the film, and after filming the group receives the first official fee, 600 rubles (at that time - the salary of a typical employee or engineer for 4-5 months), which is spent on the purchase of a Grundig TK-46 tape recorder, in subsequent years, replacing the group's studio. In the final version of the film, almost all the frames with the "Time Machine" are cut out - the group appears for just a few seconds, although the songs sound a little longer.

In 1974, due to numerous conflicts with Kawagoe, Kutikov left for the Leap Summer group. A few months later he returns, but in the summer of 1975 he again leaves for the VIA at Tulskaya State Philharmonic. Kawagoe and Makarevich quickly find guitarist Yevgeny Margulis, who has a characteristic "bluesy" voice. Makarevich immediately offers Margulis to play the bass guitar, to which he easily agrees, although he honestly warns that he has never held a bass in his hands. However, he quickly learns a new instrument for himself; since then, Makarevich has been playing solo guitar exclusively. In the group, Margulis begins to write and perform songs with a blues bias.

For the next four years, the trio Makarevich - Kavagoe - Margulis becomes the core of the group, periodically supplemented by one or two session musicians. In 1975, Eleonora Belyaeva invited The Time Machine to sign up for TV at the Music Kiosk. For two days in a professional studio, sound engineer Vladimir Vinogradov records seven songs: "Sunny Island", "Puppets", "In the Circle of Clear Water", "Flag over the Castle", "From End to End", "Black and White" and " Flying Dutchman". The group is not allowed on television, but the first high-quality studio recording of MV's own songs is immediately replicated and spontaneously distributed throughout the country.

In 1976, the "machinists" come to the festival "Tallinn Songs of Youth-76" in Estonia, where they are surprised to learn that the songs of "Machine" are known outside of Moscow. At the festival, the group receives the first prize, and there they meet Boris Grebenshchikov, thanks to whom periodic amateur tours begin in Leningrad. Yuri Ilchenko comes to the group for six months (formerly - soloist Leningrad group"Myths"). After his departure, the group plays in three (Makarevich, Margulis and Kavagoe), in 1977 they again perform in Tallinn, however, with less success than the first time.

Experiments with sound begin: a brass section is invited to the group, initially consisting of saxophonist Evgeny Legusov and trumpeter Sergei Velitsky; in 1978, Velitsky was replaced by Sergei Kuzminyuk. Igor Klenov was responsible for the sound then. In March 1978, the birthday magnetic album, assembled by Andrey Tropillo from separate recordings, saw the light of day. He took the recordings that Makarevich brought (Tropillo then held underground sessions) and replicated this tape in the amount of 200 pieces. In the spring of 1978, Artemy Troitsky takes the "Machine" to Sverdlovsk, where the group performs at the "Spring UPI" festival. The performance turns out to be scandalous - the group, with its appearance and repertoire, is completely out of the general range of the "politically reliable" VIA that performed there.

In the summer of 1978, the “drivers” learn that Kutikov, who worked in the speech studio of GITIS, found an opportunity to organize a recording of the Leap Summer group (where he then played) there after hours. Makarevich asks Kutikov to help "Machine" also sign up: he agrees. In about two weeks at night, the group records 24 songs, which are currently being performed at concerts. The recording used an overdub with re-recording and two tape recorders with badly tuned paths, the sound of the guitars and the rhythm section turned out to be "dim" against the background of the voice. The record is immediately copied, it diverges throughout the country (according to Makarevich - without the knowledge and consent of the group) and brings the group widely known. Original version the recording was lost, in 1992, from a copy that Gradsky kept, an album was digitized and published under the title "It was so long ago ...". Subsequently, the existence of a better copy of the recording in GITIS was repeatedly mentioned on the Internet, but it was not officially published. There are also recordings of a number of songs "Time Machine" made in the same studio, but at a different time, differing in technical features.

In the autumn of 1978, the then-unknown Hovhannes Melik-Pashaev called the group and offered to perform for big money in a construction team in Pechora, at the same time offering himself as a keyboard player. Performances in the "field" conditions (in a forest clearing and in a small rural club) bring more than a decent income, and Pashaev is fixed in the group, working at concerts as a sound engineer, but mainly acting as a group administrator. Using his rich connections, he organizes performances. Commercial activity of Melik-Pashayev is bearing fruit: according to the memoirs of Sergei Kavagoe, in Last year During their underground existence, musicians earned more than a thousand rubles a month each with concerts (the salary of an engineer at a factory at that time was about 120-150, a skilled worker - about 200 rubles a month).

In the same autumn of 1978, the band parted ways with the brass section. Alexander Voronov appears, playing on a synthesizer of his own making, but does not take root in the team and soon leaves. November 28, 1978 the group participates in the opening of the First Rock Music Festival "Chernogolovka-78". The first place was shared just by "Time Machine" and "Magnetic Band", the second was taken by "Leap Summer". The most interesting thing is that "Time Machine" and "Magnetic Band" will again share the first place in a year and a half at the "Tbilisi-80" festival.

At the end of 1978, the Little Prince program was created for 1979, according to fairy tale of the same name Antoine de Saint-Exupery, which is a concert "Time Machine", where during the first part the songs were interspersed with textual interludes from the book, selected more or less in tune with the lyrics of the songs being performed. Subsequently, from 1979 to 1981, the program changed, differed in composition, arrangements, new prose and poetic fragments were included in it, including other authors. The texts were first read by Andrei Makarevich, and in February 1979, Alexander Butuzov (Bassoon) was invited to the group as a reader especially for the performance of the literary part of the program.

In February 1979 Andrey Tropillo recorded " little prince”during one of the trips of the“ Time Machine ”to Leningrad and distributed reels with a record. This recording of The Little Prince is the only known recording of the program in its early version and with the old lineup. In 2000, a later version was released on CD.

By the spring of 1979, a conflict was brewing between the two founders of the group, Makarevich and Kawagoe. Makarevich in the book “Everything is very simple” speaks of a creative crisis and a personal conflict between him and Sergey Kavagoe. According to Podgorodetsky (he came to the group later and was not personally a witness to the events), there was a major scandal related to financial issues, in addition, Kavagoe and Margulis were against Makarevich's desire to bring the group out of the underground to the professional stage. The final split of the group occurs after a concert organized by Makarevich, contrary to Kavagoe's active unwillingness, in the basement of the newly formed "Gorkom of Graphs" - a committee of avant-garde artists on Malaya Gruzinskaya. According to Makarevich, the concert is disgusting (his colleagues specify in their memoirs that Kavagoe, Margulis and Melik-Pashayev obviously overdid alcohol before the concert and frankly fooled around on stage). On the same evening after the concert, the group gathers in Melik-Pashaev's apartment, where the equipment was stored, and Makarevich announces his departure from the group, inviting "everyone except Kavagoe" to follow him. Margulis, whom Makarevich counted on very much, leaves Kavagoe. In "The Time Machine" with Makarevich, the only musician, remain Melik-Pashaev, Butuzov and the technicians Korotkin and Zaborovsky.

In May 1979, Kutikov, who then played in Leap Summer, offers Makarevich to recreate the Time Machine with him and Leap Summer drummer Valery Efremov. Pyotr Podgorodetsky, recently demobilized from the army, is invited to take the place of the keyboard player; professional pianist, he makes a huge impression on Makarevich with his fantastic performance and ability to play anything. Kutikov and Podgorodetsky knew each other before the "Machine", since 2 weeks before arriving at the "Machine" he was taken to the "Leap Summer". In this line-up, the group is rehearsing a program that includes the new songs "Right", "Who did you want to surprise", "Candle", "There will be a day", "Crystal City", "Turn" and others. Podgorodetsky writes several songs for the group with a humorous twist, which he performs himself.

By the end of 1979, the pressure of party organs and the police made it increasingly difficult for the "underground" concert activity. A “curator” from the department of culture of the city committee of the CPSU of Moscow is specially attached to the group. Makarevich hatches the idea of ​​leaving the underground and including the group in one of the state creative associations. Negotiations are underway, including with the Taganka Theatre. As a result, the group received an offer from Rosconcert, and in November 1979 became part of the troupe of the Moscow Tour Regional Theater Comedy. It's funny that the party curator, pleased with the departure of the scandalous group from under his tutelage, gives the "Time Machine" a brilliant description. In the theater, the main occupation of musicians is the performance of songs built into performances, which makes it possible to circumvent the ban on private concerts (according to Makarevich: “you could safely practice your music and your songs, and then the session became not a criminal underground event, but quite legal creative meeting with artists of the famous theater). The theater, having received the opportunity to write on posters “with the participation of the Time Machine group”, sharply increases fees.

1980s: work at the Rosconcert The work of the Time Machine as part of the theater lasts only a few months. In January 1980, the leadership of Rosconcert decides that it is more profitable to use the group for its intended purpose, and offers to present its own concert program. The concert program in one department passes the artistic council and in the spring of 1980 "Time Machine" receives the status of an independent ensemble at the "Rosconcert" and begins its own tour activity. Hovhannes Melik-Pashayev officially becomes " artistic director» groups, and Andrey Makarevich small print on posters it is indicated as "music director".

Andrei Makarevich receives a diploma from Yuri Sergeevich Saulsky at the Tbilisi-80 festival. In the new line-up, the group makes a triumphant debut on March 8, 1980 at the 1980 Tbilisi Rock Festival, where it receives the first prize for the songs "Snow" and "Crystal City", ahead of "Autograph" and Aquarium.

The popularity of the group leaves the underground and turns into an all-Union one. "Time Machine" is constantly played on the radio, the songs "Turn", "Candle", "Three Windows" become popular. "Turn" for 18 months leads the hit parade "Soundtrack" "Moskovsky Komsomolets" (the only officially existing Soviet hit parade at that time). Underground magnetic albums diverge in large circulations, one of the sources of which is the studio recording of "Time Machine" - "Moscow - Leningrad", semi-underground made in the summer of 1980 during the group's tour in Leningrad by sound engineer Andrei Tropillo at the Leningrad branch of Melodiya.

In the second half of 1980, an attempt was made to restore The Little Prince as a separate program, the concert was being rehearsed, costumes were being sewn, the program successfully passed several artistic councils, tickets for the performance at the Variety Theater were already at the box office and instantly sold out. However, on the eve of the first concert, Ivanov, an official from the Central Committee of the CPSU, arrives to approve the program; on his instructions, the program is not accepted, the concerts are cancelled. Until 1981, the group continued to use literary fragments at concerts, read out between songs, but in the fall Butuzov was fired from the group and this practice ceased. The negative reaction of the Central Committee leads to the fact that "Time Machine" until 1986 is not allowed to perform concerts in Moscow at all. During these six years, Mashina manages to tour almost the entire Soviet Union.