Boris Grebenshchikov-70: his quotes about the Russian-Ukrainian war and the top 7 hits "Aquarium"

Along with Andrei Makarevich's rock band "The Time Machine" (formed in 1969) "Aquarium" is the oldest rock collective of the USSR (which then included Ukraine), which still actively tour and produces albums. Today there are 24 studio albums in the Aquarium. The Grebenshchikov himself (or BG) - 15 solo. Both rock leaders immediately spoke about the sharp rejection of Russian aggression against Ukraine and after February 24 left Russia.

The focus gathered the quote of the anniversary about the Russian-Ukrainian war, mentioned the milestones of his career and made the top 7 powerful "Aquarium" hits. "The war with Ukraine is madness. And the people who solved it are the shame of Russia," BG said in his video. Boris Grebenshchikov emphasized that in Ukraine there is a real war, not a "special operation", as Roszma writes.

The singer added that all Russian media in principle write a lie: "In present -day Russia, all the media are lying. " "You understand, if in the center of Europe one country attacked the other and the whole world is silent because the country that has attacked has a nuclear button, then sorry, the state of obscene," said the artist. "I think what is happening in Ukraine "It's a shame: shame all over the world and Russia. We will not pour water in the sieve. We all know what is happening.

It is senseless to discuss it. The war lasts eight years because the bandits brought from Belgorod and Rostov and abandoned them in Donetsk. Everyone knows everyone. It is. There is no point in hiding. I have a lot of acquaintances in the Donbass. So I understand more less what is happening, "the musician explained. "This is fascism-the destruction of one nation by another by national and cultural feature," said the Aquarium leader in the Russian-Ukrainian war again.

" , destroy, put in prisons, shoot any person they will meet on the street. " The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation brought to the register of foreign agents Boris Grebenshchikov. "BB Grebenshchikov carried out concert activities in foreign countries for the purpose of providing financial assistance to Ukraine. He opposed a special military operation in Ukraine. He received support from foreign sources. He lives outside the Russian Federation," the Ministry of Justice said.

In total, BG and Aquarium have about a thousand songs. The voice of Boris Grebenshchikov is very recognizable, but in relation to the tunes-there is (as the music critic Artemius Troitsky) 10-12 conditional "pattern", which the author selects depending on the mood of the composition. The main feature of the work "Aquarium" is figurative, symbolic poems.

Despite their entire complex figurative series, they are mostly divided into two types: lyrical - about Epiphany and satirical - about God's destruction. The first type includes, for example, the song "10 Strel" or "Ivan Bodhidhar": "Ivan Bodhidharma is moving from the south in the rocks of the spring, he drunken from the Reck, in which he was barely a state in the hands of the geography of all our houses and passions.

" The second type belongs to the song written in September 2023 - "not forgotten", where the lines about modern Russia: "Overlover, stacks of elegant and beam". Often, the prophetic texts were published in Grebenshchikov. Only their meaning was not immediately clarified, but gradually. Here, for example, an excerpt from the song of Grebenshchikov "Electrical" (1984). "Sleened early for the circus, snobbing for the beginning of the hike to the holy earth.

We have moving holy, vocabularily melted wax; . If I would be . . . "1984 - the extreme point of stagnation. We move slowly. But "early for the circus", which will start in the restructuring (period 1985-1990). However, it is inevitable - after all, the road to its opposite - the temple - ordered. We were then governed by absolute unbelief: we lost their belief in socialism, and in religion we were indifferent in Soviet.

Therefore, "it is late to start a hike to the Holy Land" - we do not believe anything. Our fate is "colorless days", gray. And who is the raspberry-red bird? This is a fennel fenix - a symbol of spiritual revival. Grebenshchikov says that if he could become him, he would try spiritually to "update" us (returned us, "took home"), but unfortunately, Boris - not Phoenix.

The prophetic meaning of these lines can only be evaluated by surviving the restructuring, crisis of nineties, and by covering in the 2000s. But how is it? I think that the question himself will not answer this question. "If you, listening to my songs, do not see the blinding paintings, I am sorry for you," B. G. once said. In fact, hearing, for example, the lines from the song of the Master BO ":" The dragon landed on the field - they will read later that you are sleeping . . .

" - it is difficult to forget this picture. The musician feels the time in the restructuring ): "We have been warming for seven years of war, we were taught that life - this is a bout The aquarium "" 500 "was heard extremely gloomy words:" On the pursuits of the prevention of Methet Sukhoi, my family, as pigs, a branch of their snob. Patriotism is simply "Kill Innovate": this trunk passes through my heart. In the mudny water you do not see the stake, the dead of his dead dead.

"Today we understand that this is the beginning of the killing policy, which was already pursued by the President of the Russian Federation. In 2014, when all the well -known events in Crimea and Donbass began He responded with the social and rigid album "Sol. No one has heard such a socio-acute Grebenshchikov since the 1980s. Music sounded fierce, aggressively, and every line of his new songs-as a knife on his heart.

The hall reacted by applause to particularly vivid lines, like this: "You will be in Moscow. Says on the holiday - not that served the love of the Tabya in the land. " Cherny Swan - in the field of beaten Kirpich . . . "" Poetry in Ogne "(" Colonel Vasin "): the most social song BG - about restructuring. "Golden City": The most famous song "Aquarium" (not their authorship, soundtrack "Ace") - about paradise.