Andriy Makarevich-70: his quotes about the Russian-Ukrainian war and the top 7 hits "Machines of Time"

Andriy Makarevich since 2014 on the side of Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War. The focus on the anniversary of the rock star revealed what the secret of the creative longevity of the musician, recalled Makarevich's quotes about the war and made a tops of the band "Machine Time".

Andriy Makarevich (born December 11, 1953) is the leader of the "oldest" rock band in the post-Soviet space "Machine Time" (formed in 1969), which set the canons of the Slavic year, where the focus is on the figurative text, the content of the song, not the content On the melody, which did not interfere with the team regularly release shock hits over more than half a century of existence of the team. "Machines of Time" 10 magnetoalbs, 13 official studios and 27 Makarevich solors.

Incredibly, the fact is that the rock band, changing its sound from decade to decade, since the emergence of frantic popularity-from about the mid-1970s-has stored it to this day. For example, in Kyiv 2016 at the largest Ukrainian Festival atlas Weekend "Machine Time" as a headliner one of the days, gathered under the tie the largest festival platform on VDNH is 10-12 thousand spectators. I was at that concert (and I personally had to talk to a rock star several times).

New interesting things and old hits sounded. Makarevich as if moving on a fantastic car of time slider: "Here's a thing of 2016. Now we travel in 1975. or in 1981. " For those in the sea "," Island "," Three Windows. " that the old songs of Makarevich do not lose their freshness and resemble the sew: over the years they become higher, stronger, more powerful. Of the new ones, as a diagnosis of propaganda atmosphere in the Russian Federation, then the satirical thing "Krysi" was then.

annexation of Crimea. "I go in the peace march. I understand that time does not allow you to reach Sakharov, jump into the lane in front of the pipe. I understand a little late that I will now get in the Kurginian Falcon. Two - men under 50 years, well dressed from the lane. I have a little pacific with a yellow-blue ribbon on the lacquer. Cry: "Bandera, Bl*Dy!", Makarevich said on the social network. -"And the people, by the way, were thousands of 70-80.

Recently, the cops lied in the calculations about three times, now 25 times-three thousand! They could report that no one came at all, what it was already there. " "Not everything in the world is well, but there are any rules that the countries have agreed. If at some point, we spit, we will start doing what we want, because we suddenly decided that it is not good, then it will end it badly.

When the figure is reported 94% of the Crimean referendum, I want to ask: it is 94% of the population or is it 94% of those 37% who came to vote in general? Agree, these are different things - Makarevich thought. And we are served as a general decision. If we take a map of Russia in 1918, we will see that it is both Rostov region and Krasnodar region - it was all Ukraine.

Now, for example, if the Krasnodarians, shaking this map, will be held The referendum will decide to join Ukraine on the basis of historical justice. Do they have a phrase to the end? " "Wars have existed since humanity exists. It would probably be naive that at our age everything was over. But thousands of those killed in two weeks, hundreds of thousands of refugees, destroyed cities - all through sick ambitions of one person! We are in the Middle Ages? people call me. It's very good people.

Someone has already gone, someone is not yet. They are in full despair of the inability to do something, though somehow influence the situation. The frenzy of the world that was destroyed in an instant, "the musician wrote in his telegram -channels.

And when Russian propaganda reported that Ukraine was bombing its cities, Makarevich responded with lines that became famous: "Even Hitler did not think to declare that the Soviet army had bombed its cities, took to the blockade of Leningrad to discredit the peace. " He added that now the whole world faced the fourth Reich. He also added that Hitler's fate ended tragically. And after all these events, Germany had to pay reparations for a very long time.

"Those who have not yet understood that we were already in the fourth Reich should be remembered immediately what the third ended," the musician finished. "With the war we need to finish and a long time ago. Due to one uncle's burden, a few million people broke. And several hundred thousand were killed through this whim. And it lasts daily . . . Who attacked? . That's who attacked, he's not right! Today, the chief "driver" lives in Israel near Tel Aviv with his wife and little son.

It is amazing, but the creativity of "drivers" does not "rust" the sixth decade. They had bursts of popularity in the 70s, 80s, 90s and zero with a slight change in style. Moreover, which is strange for the rock band, there are almost no fast compositions in their repertoire. The second song I studied on the guitar in 6th grade was "Marioths".

Once a friend of a father is a journalist (which was unusual for Daddy's circle, where, for the most part, candidates and doctors of the exact sciences turned) that his son was in the fall of the new youth band "Machine Time". And he also likes it. Judging by the name, it was an instrumental cosmic music such as Space or the Latvian "Zodiac". Since the time machine, as a device, was an integral attribute of science fiction.

I thought it was some electronic passages that penetrated "space and time", attract either in the depths of space or the bottom of the ocean. And he was embarrassed when he heard their magneto -album "Hunters for Luck" in 1981. There were no electronic revelations there. The boys sang about the house, friends, loneliness - in quite simple accompaniment. Through the unpretentious and roughly decorated compositions, the image of the wise and in something close in the views of the boy.

So he wondered: "What will happen in 20 years?" Really what? Twenty years - this seemed to be an extraordinary term. And the young man dreamed: "Maybe all people will live in one big country over which the eternal sun will be the light? If something is . . . ". "Something" happened earlier - in ten. The country that was in stock - the USSR. But nothing, a dream, that the peoples on the earthly ball live in harmony and "then no one remembers the war" is now more than relevant.

The soloist raised many questions that teachers at school tried to bypass. "You became a rebel - and the darkness shuddered, the whole world you wanted to change, but all the rebels are waiting for prison . . . " The healthy irony of the author was also impressed. Here is his advice to the enemies: "Let them forget everything and go their way, and I will come without them somehow. " The "three windows" were immersed in the philosophical nirvana (this is, of course, I didn't know such "smart" words, then.

One window - in the field, the other - to the forest, the third - to the ocean, "and a strong calm wave, and when I am bored in the old house, I sit near the third window" (Isn't it later the admiration of Makar Diving?). On the one hand - idealism: "Win, there is no doubt - light. " On the other hand, a tough, caustic look: "The Swiss door is inaccessible and important, it stands on a guard ship . . . ".

In short, the unknown author was a sage, an informal teacher: "Let's pause in words, pronouncing and silent again, that the meaning of the above word was better given in the heads. " He also gives useful recommendations in late things: "It is not necessary to bend under the changing world, let it be better for us.

" And it is impossible, "babies", sitting with the handles, he teaches in his example: "I will start again again again, until the light is breaking until the candle burns!" The love of "Machine Time" in the 1980s became comprehensive. In 1987, a aunt from the public (outraged by a line from his song: "Report me to Rekhe, put me in water" in the "unclear" "Ring" on "The incomprehensible" Boris Grebenshchikov was angry.

And put in the water?! " Grebenshchikov with the smile of the Cheshire cat sincerely answered her: "If you mean the water I sing," who would finally be angered by the lady. And "Ring" with Makarevich turned into a mass certificate in love. Why criticize if everyone likes? The people were only begging for the group "Sing more". The attitude of Makarevich to the Peter Gurus - Boris Grebenshchikov. One embodies a rational beginning, the other is irrational.

Despite these opposites, they are friendly to each other and both emigrated from Russia with the beginning of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine. Due to the dominance of prudence, for many years Makarevich had no songs about love (for a woman, in general about love - enough)! In addition to the dancer of the Corper ("Ah, Variette, Variette - noise in the head"). Probably the lack of lyrics was explained by the absence of lyrical feelings to the opposite sex.

If his similar things clung to the ironic side. Actually, he expressed his position in the humorous font "ah, this moon" (performing Pidhorodetsky, the words of Makarevich): "Is it worth falling in love to be disappointed?" Makarevich has been holding down for decades! It did not interfere with him repeatedly marry, to divorce, to have children (whom four today) from different women-and from wives, in particular. But this did not affect creativity.

Suddenly in 1996, the album "Cardboard Wings of Love" appears, where our hero promised: "I will break from the earth (this is a" landed "-that Andrei Vadimovich!), As if a dog is a chain and rise to the clouds . . . " The wonderful song was still somewhat abstract. But on the next disk there was a smash "He was older than her. " Where the heroine, in which the lyrical (finally!) The hero was in love, "flew at night. " And only it overshadowed his love.

And then he could not stand and "stepped out of the window, as she stepped, he took off, as she flew, but not up, but down. " If you make simple arithmetic calculations, it was clear that this lyrics were a reflection of the novel (then covered in the media) of Makarevich with a radio host with the "feathered" name Ksenia Striz. And "flying at night" for DJ is probably a common thing. In short, it was clear that Makarevich in the fourth ten years got! But the song came to glory.

However, in five years, he will reflect this story in a strong, but too "sober" song. Makarevich's mind, who won, came to the following conclusions: "And, of course, she was pleased that she had brought it out of her mind, but she did not love him, did not love him - and all the works. " The author even destroyed his previous lyrical hyperbole: "And no one fell from the eaves, and no one flew at night. The lyrics were reduced again. But wisdom is in place.

And the rules that the author shared in his songs can be taken by anyone. As in the masterpiece from the solo "in the pawnshop" of the turning point 1991: "Do not wait for the end, in the clock insertion, then you breathe freely at the edge. And the bullets that will find you, you will not hear, and the rest will fly by. " Makarevich's formula (image - action - transformation): teacher - guidance - to protect dignity. The latter is close to Ukraine.

It is likely that is usually an apolitical rocker (previously annoyed when they spoke about rebelliousness and protesting of the year, asking in a response: "And why protested" Beatles? " From the "People's Fare" in Russia, he turned into a rogue, feeling the pressure of power and ton of Hate. This theme in 2016 will sound in the song "Krysi": "The priest and the chief judge took me into turnover: one shouted - you do not like the country The other - you do not love the people.

When both fell silent, I asked for something else for the devil. I love both the people and the country but I cannot tolerate rats. " "In his home country - long. A brief statement. The first bans went at the end of the seventies - we still lived in the USSR. They played on student dormitories and houses of culture, they were on our own, so it was not easy to ban us, as well as to catch at all - we were not anywhere. At the end of 1979 they were in the concert, and a beautiful life lasted until 1982.

"The stew of a blue bird". We were closed for six months. Next, everything was great until 2014 - Crimea, Donbas. The years and a half were recorded in "Friends of Hunts". It has passed and that. I am to the fact that when the concerts are abolished today, I can only express our sympathy for our fans, and remind - nothing new. We have lived for a long time. We will live further.

" There are such insightful lines: may evil creep from century to century, and the sky close the smokes again, but life in the world is slightly more than death, and light in the world is a little more than , which has not lost its relevance today. It seems like satire on "law-abiding" people who, as puppets, are subordinated to another's will.

But there is also a deeper interpretation-Kabalistic, that all people are subordinated not only , which became in the USSR an all-union hit and officially played in restaurants as a variety smash (such as "Red Ruta"). For many years she was the main song of the band. Makarevich wrote it under the impression of collapse of his rock collective in the late 1970s. Makarevich did not give up and revived the team - they soon were waiting for success.

The concerts of "Time Machines" often end with this song. It became a great hit in the 1990s as a metaphor that in vague times can save talent. Eugene Margulis, who wrote music. Makarevich's words. The superchite of the band, where the main idea is expressed in the chorus: "It is not necessary to bend under the changing world, the path is better for us. " Bonus - soundtrack: a song written by Andriy Makarevich for the movie "Crossroads" (1999).

The movie is mediocre, what you don't say about the composition. She became a hit and in 1999 sounded in Kiev on all musical layouts, in addition, this thing was a prophetic: at 68 years Makarevich again found "at the intersection of seven roads" and was forced to leave the Russian Federation to Israel. In March 2022, he had a fourth child-Eutan, born from a 37-year-old journalist Einat Klein (originally from Kiev). The crossroads of seven roads, that's the intersection of seven roads - my life.