Biography, life story of the group "Resurrection"

Until 1994, "Sunday" could safely be called legendary group, since the history of the group belongs entirely to the history of rock music and by that time was overgrown with all sorts of legends and rumors. The year of foundation of “Resurrection” is considered to be 79th. It was then that Sergei Kawagoe and Evgeniy Margulis, who had left Mashina Vremeni, suggested that Alexey Romanov (who even sang in Mashina in 1974) should form a new team.

The Time Machine keyboardist Pyotr Podgorodetsky also took part in the recording of the first songs in the GITIS training studio (conservatively at night). Before leaving for vacation in Pitsunda, the recording was transmitted to Radio Moscow World Service, a radio station that broadcast to the West in anticipation of the Olympics. In Moscow and the Moscow region its waves were received quite steadily. That’s why the “Resurrectionists” returned from the south famous: everyone knew the song “Who’s to Blame.” This was the beginning of the legend.
The ensemble's first and second albums sold out almost instantly. "Sunday" was in great demand in all the cultural centers of Moscow and its environs. But soon the group ceased to exist: Margulis went to Araks, Romanov wanted to become a philharmonic artist. It was then that Konstantin Nikolsky appeared on the horizon of “Resurrection”. This is how “Sunday-2” arose, which in a year and a half almost put an end to the glory of “The Time Machine”.

However, in 1983, an official war against rock and roll began in the USSR. Criminal cases against musicians appeared. One of them was brought against Alexey Romanov and the sound engineer of “Resurrection” Alexander Arutyunov - for the sale of tickets to one of the concerts of “Resurrection”, specifically for entrepreneurial activities in the form of performing concerts and distributing their own recordings. The newspapers claimed that Romanov, using technical means and state documents, put a lot of money in his pocket.

As a result, Alexey, after spending nine months in Butyrka prison, received three years with confiscation and a suspended sentence (a broken TV, a broken record player, a Comet tape recorder and two chairs were confiscated from the musician). The remaining musicians, having managed to consult with lawyers, answered the question - did they receive fees from Komsomol and trade union organizations? - they answered steadfastly: “No.” At this point, the history of the "Resurrections" group temporarily - for more than ten years - stopped.

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However, Nikolsky never found a place in the resurrected composition of “Resurrection”. Kostya himself explained this by saying that he suggested singing old songs with the same arrangements. Everyone else insisted on a new interpretation famous topics. However, Alexey Romanov in an interview with BDG expressed a different point of view: >Yes, something slipped through. But I think that Kostyun felt uncomfortable in our company. We have a very unique kind of humor: we giggle all the time, but he doesn’t understand what we’re talking about. Although sometimes we ourselves don’t know why we laugh!>
This November, a concert dedicated to the band’s twentieth anniversary will take place in Moscow. However, until now one might have thought that “Sunday” was a purely commercial project, since since its revival not a single new song has been released. However, the director of "Resurrection" Vladimir Sapunov (by the way, brother Andrey) in an interview with BDG said that just this year, finally, a record with completely new songs should appear, which are planned to be recorded in August-September.

After all, “Sunday” is, of course, first of all Romanov,” says Vladimir Sapunov. - The rest of the musicians also write songs. But the main themes come from Alexey. Romanov’s creative process involves first composing poetry, which he writes quite long and painstakingly. These are not just song lyrics, but, in my opinion, real high poetry. Zhenya Margulis told me that Romanov recently read him six amazing poems. It's not difficult to make good music. Therefore, if you consider that there are already six poems and already sounds new song- “Martian”, then the record, which should have ten or eleven songs, is not difficult to put together.

However, Romanov is less optimistic:>The new album will appear only if someone still takes us into their warm financial hands. Well, only young people promised...>
The Russian crisis also affected the group. From September to November last year, a lot of concerts were cancelled. Accordingly, fees also fell. But objectively this happened to everyone Russian performers. True, now everything is returning to normal. And as evidence of this, immediately after Minsk “Resurrection” leaves for Ukraine, then will perform in Moscow.

The subsequent pause in concert activity was caused by the fact that Evgeny Margulis, who plays in “Sunday” and “Time Machine,” is leaving on tour with Makarevich’s group. By the way, “Time Machine” itself has a very busy schedule this year, as the group celebrates its thirtieth anniversary.

One day I decided to study the biography of the Resurrection group... After two hours I gave up and decided to get acquainted with something less confusing and turned on Twin Peaks.

In our country, a certain tradition of a rock band has formed: there is one musician who writes and sings his songs, and the rest in the group are just a musical background, so that the author does not sound like Alexander Bashlachev. Look at almost any band: it has a clearly defined leader (BG, Shevchuk, Shklyarsky, Grigoryan, Logutenko, Sasha Vasiliev), and the rest of the musicians can change almost every year. Even in “The Time Machine” there is a clear leader Andrei Makarevich, although quite a few songs were written and performed by Alexander Kutikov, and there are also supposedly blues by Evgeniy Margulis and even a composition by Andrei Derzhavin.

There are rare examples of the duumvirate - “Bi-2”, “Underwood”, “Agatha Christie” (and Vadim Samoilov is now touring under this name, which Gleb really does not like). But with the Resurrection group everything is much more complicated. Alexey Romanov is considered its nominal leader. But at the same time, both Konstantin Nikolsky and Evgeny Margulis played with the group, who brought and performed their own songs, and until recently Andrei Sapunov was with Romanov on almost equal rights (it’s not for nothing that their voices are so similar that I still don’t learned to distinguish). For a decade and a half, the group did not exist at all, and its former and future musicians often converged on other projects. For example, in the “SV” project, where Nikolsky and Romanov played together, while the group existed both before and after them (and - you’ll be shocked - still exists).

Having been disbanded in the early 80s due to the arrest of Romanov (show trial of rockers who were "engaged" entrepreneurial activity), the group “Resurrection” united in a golden lineup in 1994... To give one concert and immediately kick Nikolsky to hell. After this there was a studio lull, in 2001 the group released the compilation album “All Over again”, and two years later - finally a numbered album. Third. After the albums of 1979 and 1981. Since then, there has not been a word about new songs from “Resurrection”. In 2015, Sapunov left the group due to a conflict with Romanov over the Ukrainian issue, but, unlike Agatha Christie, no one seemed to care. The group still doesn’t write new songs, and the cat cried out for the old ones.

I made such a long summary so that you understand how difficult it was for me to weed out for the top those songs that can really be considered “Sunday songs”. I really wanted to make this top because I really love this group. At one time it was even my second favorite after Aquarium. I want to make a reservation: I did not include the songs of Evgeniy Margulis in the top (however, among them there would still not have been a sufficiently worthy one), as well as Konstantin Nikolsky (although a couple of his compositions came to the group before the author himself). In general, everything is very confusing. In short, listen to the top and don’t worry!

11. It happens (“Resurrection-1”, 1979)

A little sad song, but at the same time with a surprisingly positive motive. “There are wings, but there is no happiness,” Romanov sings to us, but for some reason we still don’t cry, but smile. Perhaps this is such a bright sadness about how fleeting sometimes joyful events are. About the fact that in childhood we were much better able to enjoy the little things. They built fortresses out of chairs and also knew how to fly.

10. “Train” (“Resurrection-2”, 1981)

A song that gives hope that everything will be fine. Very bright and kind with a beautiful message: you want to believe that all paths always lead to home. The song is about the fact that a person, no matter how far he is from the starting point, will still be drawn to it.

9. “Teach me to live” (without album)

A charming composition that is more similar in style to Nikolsky than to Romanov. However, it was written by the permanent leader of the group. The structure of the lyrics in the song is simply incredible - with long lines and unusual rhymes. Try to read this as a verse, you will break on the second line:
Teach me to live, teach me to do something,
My nights are numbered, and my days, like dreams, are short.
And what loves through sleep, what breathes on behalf of the body,
It's just a shadow on the hot sand by the lazy river...
When I first heard it, I didn’t even believe at first that it was possible to write THIS way.

8. Leaf fall (“Taking your time”, 2003)

And this is where I broke down. And I realized that I simply cannot properly describe the emotions from the songs of “Resurrection”. Almost everything comes down to beautiful images and a charming atmosphere. This song is sung by Andrei Sapunov, which is not surprising - images of Orthodoxy are often found in his work. Including his by far best song, more on that later. And also in my childhood, when it was hard for me to do something homework(especially in mathematics), he involuntarily began to hum “if only I could learn to learn...”.

7. Don’t leave me (“Taking your time”, 2003)

When the album “Not in a Hurry” was released, I had already been listening to “Resurrection” for some time and had an idea about their work. I really liked their songs, and therefore when the album came out, I rushed to buy a cassette with it. The first track - “I will create peace for you” - somehow didn’t resonate with me. I won’t say that it’s downright bad, but it seemed pretty passable to me. But as soon as the first chords of the second song sounded, my heart sank - I heard the very “Resurrection” that I fell in love with. Yes, these are the same chords, the same lyrics, the same voice.
By the way, Romanov’s voice is generally some kind of constant. Now the musician outwardly looks like some average drunk neighbor who, wearing an alcoholic T-shirt on the staircase, asks for a tweet because the pipes are on fire. But the voice... the voice remained as light and angelic as on the very first album. And you only need to hear just a few words from Romanov to understand: a drunkard definitely cannot have such a voice, and his appearance due to age and illness.

6. Soldier of the Universe (“Resurrection-1”, 1979)

Yes, the group deliberately calls this song “I'm Used to Wandering Alone” so that there are no militaristic associations. But let them go to hell, because everyone knows: this is the “Soldier of the Universe.” Here, of course, the first thing that catches you is the music. However, you don’t need to be a music expert to understand who inspired the band when writing music (well, how they were inspired... it’s called “stealing the tune” from the song “Breathe”). However, if the song were just a copy of Pink Floyd, it wouldn’t be so memorable. After all, the text in it is very cool. I can write “charming” again, but I still have five points ahead, and I have already exhausted the limit for the word “charming”.

5. Who is to blame? (“Resurrection-1”, 1979)

Well, yes, play the song “Who is to blame?” in the top songs of “Resurrection” - it’s somehow even a little vulgar. Well, it’s clear that a song with such philosophical lyrics should hit the top. Well, what can I do, how can I live without her? This is a really cool, albeit very sad, song. The pain from the unsaidness of my life, the disappointment from unfulfilled hopes... No, with all my love for Nikolsky’s songs, he still could not write such a thing. It is not for nothing that the song was included in the group’s second album and in the quasi-album “All Over again” in 2001.

4. I have never been overseas (“Resurrection-2”, 1981)

Here! This is how you need to write about love for your homeland. And not these “from the Volga to the Yenisei” of yours. Unfortunately, certain people did not fail to use it for their own political purposes, but everyone who listens to this song is simply obliged to understand: it is not about love for the Motherland, which is capitalized, not about love for the Fatherland, the state, etc. . Well, think for yourself: will the underground in 1981 release a song, they say, love the USSR and don’t think about emigrating somewhere there, like some kind of rat? My address is the Soviet Union, all this is here. Of course not! This song is about a small homeland, or rather about the homeland within yourself. About the fact that you cannot change yourself, give up who you are. It’s not for nothing that the song contains the lines: “They cry in the same way in pain, they give birth to children in pain.” Don't try to look for paradise somewhere on the side. Heaven is inside you. And let it sometimes be accompanied by mental anguish. But maybe this is my SRSG, and in fact Romanov meant that in the USA it is no better than in the USSR, and in general blacks are lynched there.

3. Taking your time (“Taking your time”, 2003)

A song written by Romanov, but traditionally performed by Sapunov. And it performs simply superbly. Another magical ode to light sadness. Beautiful images of the unity of man and nature. I’ll tell you honestly, when I listen to “Resurrection” at work, I deliberately rewind this song. Because I don’t have any work process under it, I begin to involuntarily meditate. Especially under the drawl of words like “the luuuuuuuuuck will be pulled again”...

2. Ringing (without album)

In general, this is Sapunov’s solo song, but it was played very often at Resurrection concerts, and therefore I think it’s fair to mention it. Because I just adore her. One of the most religious songs in Russian music in general. I don’t even know what else I can write about her. Sorry.

As a bonus today... I guess "Do your thing". A cheerful, cheerful, driving thing. It’s not often you see this at Resurrection.

1. “On the Road of Disappointments” (“Resurrection-2”, 1981)

A song that simply could not exist in the USSR in 1981. Because at that time only the Aquarium group knew about reggae music. Nevertheless, “On the Road of Disappointments” came out as the most reggae composition with lyrics in the traditions of Russian literature. Mental anguish, philosophical introspection, more unique images... And all this to a reggae tune. By the way, there was also some kind of rock and roll version of the song, I don’t know which of the billion groups was recorded. And now she’s not so catchy anymore. Probably because the original “On the Road of Disappointment” is an inextricable combination of emotions from music and text. Just like most of the Aquarium songs. I remember the first time I heard this song on the radio: I sat dumbfounded at the tape recorder and wished I could rewind and listen because I hadn’t recorded it. I probably didn’t even understand what I heard then. But I felt very good. After all, the most important thing cannot be seen with the eyes. You can't hear with your ears, you can't understand with your brains. Oh, this is from somewhere else in the opera.

Our rock bands of the last century were always characterized by PAPHOS - the pathos of boys who were just ripe for the opportunity to declare themselves as the very best interesting objects discussion and lust. How many groups have destroyed themselves without dividing the role of the LEADER in the team, because measuring by centimeters is the job of the young...
Time puts everything in its place. And the role of everyone in the case looks quite unambiguous - in a case that they couldn’t - which was simply trashed.

The group "Resurrection" is a Soviet and Russian rock band. It has existed since 1979 with a break in 1982-1994. Leader - Alexey Romanov (1979-1982, 1994 - present), Konstantin Nikolsky (1980-1981). The style is rock, something between blues, psychedelic rock, art rock with elements of country and rock and roll.

"Resurrection" - Who is to blame. 1992.

Resurrection in 1979-1982

In the spring of 1979, Mashina Vremeni drummer Sergei Kawagoe left the group. He and his former bandmate decided to create their own group: in June, bassist Evgeniy Margulis left Mashina and took his place in the new band.

- “The consumption of the “machinists” of 1979 is still not clear. I was not present with them at that moment, because I was finishing college, where I studied for ten years, and then immediately went to military camps. When I returned, in May, Kava and Zhenya unexpectedly appeared to me and said: "Don't you have any songs? Come on, let's make a group. We left Mashina." Well, come on, if that's the case, why not? But we, I say, don't have any base, no instruments. True, I have a piano and a twelve-string guitar at home. Come, let's come up with some arrangements. And Kava, apparently, has already matured a strategy: to do the same thing that “Machine” once did: record more "A dozen things of less quality and scattered on reels all over the country, in recording studios. The Japanese, it seems to me, have always been driven by ambition!" (Mikhail Margolis “Protracted Turn”)

Konstantin Nikolsky - One look back (Veterok)

The songwriter was Alexey Romanov, the leader of the fairly successful Kuznetsky Most group. Romanov's longtime friend Alexei Makarevich was called to fill the remaining vacancy - lead guitarist. Thus was born a new rock band - the Resurrection group.

“At home, on my knees,” they “made” ten songs in a month. It was decided to record them in the training studio of GITIS, where former “Machine” participant Alexander Kutikov worked as a cameraman. The recording also included the keyboard player of “Mashina” Pyotr Podgorodetsky and a good guitarist and vocalist Andrei Sapunov from Stas Namin’s VIA “Flowers”. During the recording, Kawagoe “sat down at the keys” and recorded the synthesizer part.

After meeting Andrei Sapunov, the repertoire of “Resurrection” included songs by Konstantin Nikolsky, an acquaintance of Andrei Sapunov. Half of the songs were not actually “Resurrection” songs, such as “Snow Woman” and “Who is to Blame?” were part of the repertoire of “Kuznetsky Most”, “I Have It” - from “The Time Machine”, the period when Romanov sang there.

The group, whose songs were broadcast by the Moscow World Service radio (broadcasting to the west on the eve of the Moscow Olympics), soon became wildly popular; the song “Who is to blame?”, which is on the list, became a super hit popular songs“MK”, beating the famous “Povorot”, took fifth place, in 1999 taking 9th place in the list of the 100 best songs of Russian rock in the 20th century according to the radio station “Our Radio”. In addition, the songs “Snow Woman” and “Dream” were popular.

In September, a traveler unexpectedly wakes up in Margulis and leaves the group. Sapunov took up the bass guitar. Musically talented, he quickly mastered the new instrument.

In November, the group's first concerts took place - “Resurrection” at the peak of glory.

In January, Margulis returned to the group, and two more members appeared - trumpeter Sergei Kuzminok and saxophonist Pavel Smeyan. In the spring, the band continues to perform successfully, new songs appear, the first and second albums sold out instantly, but against the backdrop of external prosperity, a conflict is brewing within the lineup. “Everyone is tired of each other.” The band members felt that Alexey Makarevich, the lead guitarist, did not play his parts very skillfully at that time. It was decided to change it. They took Alik Mikoyan, a former member of Mashina. I liked it, but summer came and the musicians went on vacation to Pitsunda.

And in September “Resurrection” disappeared - Margulis went to “Araks”, Kawagoe and Makarevich left music (the first took the scientific path). Only Romanov remains in the group.

"Resurrection" - Dream

Evgeniy Margulis:

- “Then, back in the eighties, I suddenly noticed that at the concerts only the halls and our mood changed, otherwise everything was like a stupid dream, the audience was the same, the fans flowed with us from one session to another, and this couldn’t help but bother me, especially since Leshka Makarevich’s lack of professionalism was making itself felt, and Kava, with his stupid quibbles, completed the dullness of the rehearsals.

Sapun and I went on wild sprees, Romakha did the same; sometimes we would go to our basement to see the next guitarist, get upset and go back to all the bad things."

Sapun was the first to think about leaving the group, and he gave me an excellent reason: they invited me to Araks.

Second period (1980-1982)

It seemed that the group would never live up to its name. Upset, Romanov put work book in "Araks", listed there as something of a songwriter, and in the future he hoped to penetrate the Philharmonic. And then Konstantin Nikolsky called him.

Nikolsky was known not only to the “rock party”, but also to ordinary Soviet listeners, as the author of the music for the song “Old Piano” - the hit of VIA “Flowers”. He and his friend Sapunov already practically had new line-up- he, Sapunov, Romanov and drummer Mikhail Shevyakov. There was a repertoire, all that remained was to find the “base” and equipment.

The second line-up was perhaps the most interesting, but also the most controversial and unstable. Nikolsky’s lyrics at first glance were very similar to “Voskresenskaya”, but at the same time there were visible deep differences. Nikolsky wrote “beautiful” songs with a high degree of pathos, which were perfectly remembered by listeners.

Naturally, the appearance in the group of a member with pronounced leader inclinations did not lead to anything good and this composition was not destined long life. Romanov dreamed of getting into the Philharmonic, Nikolsky and Sapunov were not going to give up studying at the music school. When the opportunity arose professional work under the leadership of manager Hovhannes Melik-Pashayev, it was a completely different group. Romanov went to Melik-Pashayev. He entered into an agreement with the regional philharmonic society. It seemed to Romanov that his career was taking off, but in the fall of 1982 Brezhnev died. All the group’s concerts were canceled, and “Resurrection No. 2” ceased to exist.

“...And here is Leningrad, you know, it’s class, an excellent hall, a gorgeous apparatus, everything is rehearsed, everything sounds, but here Brezhnev, take it and die! Not a single concert took place!” (Alexey Romanov)

Group "Resurrection" - Musician

History of the group

Spring 1982 new team records first album. Pavel Smeyan and trumpeter Alexander Chinenkov also took part in the recording. The album came out strange. Old Romanov intonations were intertwined with new wave music, which caused mixed reactions among fans. In the fall, the group went on tour to Leningrad. For Romanov, this was the first tour in his life.

On New Year The group went to Tashkent to give a concert at the local sports palace. There was excitement in the hall; there were posters about Russian rock everywhere. Melik-Pashayev, who knew how to “manage business,” entered into an agreement with the Moscow Philharmonic, although it fiercely hated the group.

- “Then we had to go to the Central Television and make a career. But it was not clear where we were moving. It was possible to complicate the music, make it more beautiful, more sophisticated, but it was not clear where we were moving - Kuzmin was playing a new wave at that time, and There seemed to be no point in meddling there, but “Cruise” played hard rock and that too was packed.” (Alexey Romanov)

This was followed by several concerts at the Hermitage Theater, and then Romanov was arrested

Lawsuit and band breakup

They were arrested in August - Romanov and the sound engineer of “Resurrection” Alexander Arutyunov. As Ilya Smirnov, a direct participant in those events, wrote in his book “The Time of Bells. Life and death of Russian rock":

“They were charged with ‘private business activity’ in the form of performing concerts and distributing recordings of their own songs.” A year and a half earlier, a criminal case had already been initiated against the group, but it was closed. Its essence was what is now perceived as absolutely normal, but then was illegal: receiving a fee for one’s work. Trade union committees of institutes and heads of houses and palaces of culture paid musicians - although they had no right to do this. Well, okay, an apartment concert: a man sings to himself and sings, wearing a hat in a circle - that’s the whole show business for you. And the groups are connected with electricity, light, equipment, so the concert was disguised as a “youth recreation evening”, handicraft “tickets” were made - pieces of paper or cardboard with stamps (craftsman fans translated the stamps with a boiled egg, so that for one real “ticket” there were several “leftists”), and then dispersed to “distributors”. There were several managers known throughout Moscow who had detailed distribution channels based on the conspiratorial practice of revolutionary and even pre-revolutionary times: the distributor distributed “tickets,” for example, to three assistants, each of whom was not familiar with the other two, those Using the same principle, they moved the treasured cardboard boxes further. Thus, punctures and, as a consequence, troubles on the part of the police and the OBKhSS (department for combating the theft of socialist property, if anyone doesn’t know or has forgotten). But in the case of “Sunday,” a puncture did occur.”

Then the case was closed, but Andropov opened all closed cases. Let’s return again to Ilya Smirnov’s book: “The investigation into this case was led by a woman named Travina (from the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Regional Executive Committee). The rest of the group members were saved by a miracle: summoned for questioning a little later, they managed to consult with lawyers (and in absentia with V. Albrecht) (V. Albrecht is a lawyer, dissident, author of the famous manual “How to Behave During Interrogations,” which was circulated in those years in lists, photocopies and on photographic films - A.L.), therefore, when asked whether they received fees from Komsomol and trade union organizations ... they answered with an unbreakable “no”, despite the complete idiocy of such an answer. (It turned out that part of the group worked for money, and part for free). However, there was no order to imprison people for idiocy. Therefore, they remained witnesses until the end of the trial, unlike Romanov, who said “yes” (as most people in his place would have done...).”

Andrei Makarevich has a different view on this story: “Despite the constant detentions, closing sessions, etc., none of the Moscow musicians seem to have suffered, although many were under investigation (except, perhaps, the idiotic story with Leshka Romanov, who incriminated himself." Let's leave it to the conscience of both authors to make their definition - it seems that the truth, as always in such cases, is somewhere in the middle. Here is how, according to I. Smirnov's description, the process went: "The precedent was very important. After the arrest Arutyunova and Romanov dragged everyone who had anything to do with rock and roll to the police station on Belinsky St. ... May also brought the long-awaited transfer of Travina’s legal product to the court. The trial took place in the city of Zheleznodorozhny - away from possible youth protests - and was remarkable for the absence of a prosecutor. The prosecution collapsed in the most scandalous way... And the resolution - “To be released from criminal liability in accordance with Article 52 due to the insignificance of the embezzled amount." However, the court rubber-stamped the guilty verdict - three and three and a half years probation.. ."

The trial was accompanied by angry publications in the press about how Romanov, with a beautiful guitar, using technical means and government documents, exploiting the labor of his comrades, made a lot of money. Romanov: “In general, they are such grabbers, Nepmen. All this junk was appealed to the highest authorities, and they changed the article for me to “prohibited fishing” - this is like the distribution of cassettes. It seems like we are shop workers, or we are beating a seal. And they delayed the execution of the sentence for two years - which means you have to go into hiding for two years and then it was considered that you had served your sentence. With this, the story of “Resurrection” seemed to end forever.

The fates of the group members developed differently.

After the collapse of "Araks" and the non-release of the already recorded and announced album "Alarm Bell", Margulis created the group "Nautilus" with Kavagoe, which also recorded a somewhat inexpressive but strong magnetic album, worked for Yuri Antonov, then formed the group "Shanghai", then ended up in reformed composition of “Time Machine” together with the returning Podgorodetsky.

Sergei Kavagoe, after a short return to music (in the mid-eighties, he played with Margulis in “SV”), went into science and now, as far as we know, lives in Canada.

Konstantin Nikolsky purposefully continued (and continues to this day) to write and record his own songs.

Until recently, Mikhail Shevyakov was engaged in entrepreneurial activities.

Andrey Sapunov performed with solo acoustic concerts, then played in several groups, then became part of the Lotos ensemble and, together with keyboardist Alexander Slizunov, was recorded vinyl record, published in 1989 by Melodiya.

Everything was much more complicated and tortuous for Romanov. Almost immediately after his release, he became involved in an interesting project - a recording of the Moscow Time suite, in which poems by Arseny Tarkovsky, Yuri Levitansky, and Grigory Pozhenyan were used. “Moscow Time” started to write the same old friend Romanova, guitarist Vadim Golutvin, trumpeter, percussionist and backing vocalist Alexander Chinenkov. Sergei Nefedov from “Fantasy” played the keyboards, Romanov and Igor Klenov played the bass guitar, and Voronin played the drums.

Soon after this, Romanov was again picked up by Melik-Pashayev, who put together the program “In the Same Rhythm” from assorted artists and took it around towns and villages. Romanov assembled an ensemble with which he sang his songs and accompanied the rest of the participants in this show. “We played with Margulis, with Kamil Chalaev (bass guitarist, cellist, former member of the Rock-Atelier group, later played in Metro, and now, according to rumors, lives in Paris - A.L.) and Zhenya Kazantsev (bass guitarist of Joseph Kobzon, “Carnival”, who worked in Melik-Pashayev’s program with Kuzmin, and after his departure remained with Romanov). The singer Tanya Igoshina worked there - cool folk singer, but she was carried away by the stage, and there was no one to accompany her. She is a serious, stable person, an honored artist, but here we have hooliganism going on. It's boring to just play pop music... We had stylizations - Latin American music, Indians, some Chinese arrangements. She sang in the Mari language, and I learned and sang one song - in the style of heavy metal. They were foolish, in a word. Hovhannes looked askance at this matter and in the end disbanded the group by a strong-willed decision. After that I quit.”

"Resurrection" - On the road of disappointments

Romanov tried to put together a new group, which didn’t work out very well. Remembering his youth, he played at a dance in Sokolniki Park (bassist and vocalist Alexey “Starukha” [Antonov] played with him there), and then was invited to join the group “SV”.

This was probably the only supergroup of 1988-90. The repertoire of “SV” combined old and new songs by Romanov, well-burdened with exquisite arrangements: Nefedov’s rich keys were balanced by the almost Davis-like timbres of Chinenkov’s trumpet, Golutvin’s masterful guitar ligature was superimposed on the powerful rhythm section of Kazantsev-Kitaev. In the Romanov of the “SV” period, one could feel unprecedented confidence, strength and free control of one’s own flight.

“Do Your Thing” was the first Romanov song in which the imagery was not so much lyrical as impeccably poetic: “Let’s say I’m a night bird, let’s say I’m an owl/I can’t sleep at night/I’m making words.” The refrain “do your thing!” Romanov in 1989 commented as follows: “Do your job. You are an executioner - go ahead and execute. This text was written in 1986, and throughout 1989 I listened to it on TV: these words became very fashionable after all these congresses. It’s very funny - it turns out to be such a cliche that doesn’t mean a damn thing like “the people and the party are united.” It’s impossible to think about the meaning, it’s some kind of absurd tongue twister.”

In the eighty-ninth year, the “Resurrection” group turned ten years old, and, as a result, in the Druzhba sports hall, in Luzhniki, anniversary concert. For two days, the hall, which looked like a cuttlefish from a bird's eye view, was filled to capacity with the most diverse audience - old fans of the legendary lineup, younger rockers and completely young creatures, mostly female. For two days, “SV”, Nikolsky and “Mirror of the World”, Alexey Antonov, Vladimir Kuzmin, Pyotr Podgorodetsky and - as a special surprise for the public - “Resurrection” performed on stage in no particular order. Romanov, Sapunov, Nikolsky, Shevyakov played the program of the eighty-first year, they played wonderfully, with inspiration, as if transported eight years ago to the basement of MGIMO - but still adjusted for the past years. The event was accompanied by a photo exhibition, sale of paraphernalia, video filming - well, just like in the West, like the big ones! Based on the materials of the concert, it was planned to release a video film and a record, but alas, both the television and sound people did not work well, so all the material went into the trash...

At that time, Romanov had a whole block of new songs brewing, and they were completely different from all his work before - complex, detailed, multi-minute compositions were expected. During the next recording of “SV” there were a couple of unused studio days left, and Romanov, together with Kazantsev and Kitaev, made a rough recording of these songs. Subsequently, the demo cassette was polished at the country studio of the former bass guitarist of “Zvukov Mu” (now producer and rock critic Alexander Lipnitsky).

This action led to the departure of the entire trio from SV. They gave a successful concert in a small basement club on Kurskaya; the club was packed with people, like a tin can with sprat. Alas, Kazantsev, unable to withstand the pressure of those who wanted to fraternize, then “wired up”, unleashed and, as a result of this, fell out of the general musical process for a long time. The unnamed cast, in which Kazantsev was replaced (at first in parallel with Lotus, and then permanently) by Andrei Sapunov, began rehearsing at the House of Culture of the Pravda publishing house from the beginning of ninety-one. The sight (and the sound), I must say, was wonderful.

"Sunday" - My friend the artist and poet

All together they played, as it now becomes clear, powerful, heavy psychedelia, but this was the psychedelia of the early nineties. True, it did not have the funk elements introduced three years later by the Spin Doctors, but it did have punk: the songs “Tell It to Everyone” and “Last Love,” for all their philosophical richness, were framed by rough, straightforward guitar riffs.

In 1992, the record company Fili released a recording of “Sunday” on vinyl, dated 1981. On this occasion, a presentation was arranged at the Gorbunov House of Culture, captured by “Program A”. In the first part, the same lineup played as three years ago in “Friendship”, in the second - the remaining nameless trio. “Resurrection” played frankly shoddily, Romanov forgot the words... “Program A” did not show a much more successful performance by the trio.

Then there was some kind of indefinite calm. The trio occasionally performed, but now Kitaev, a man with a tough, complex and well-established character, was replaced by Andrei Kobzon, the son of the famous pop singer and a wonderful drummer.

Renaissance

Music lovers throughout the country could not believe their ears when they heard the news about the resumption of the activities of the Resurrection group. Nevertheless, it happened. Initially, it was planned to recreate the second line-up of the group (Romanov - Nikolsky - Sapunov - Shevyakov) and one concert with this composition nevertheless took place at the Master disco on March 12, 1994, but at the next rehearsal Nikolsky stated that he did not want to perform any new songs and In general, his opinion in the group is the only main and determining one.

To his surprise, no one agreed with this, so he, without thinking twice, collected his gadgets and left. But in such a strange beginning there was also a positive experience. If rehearsals had continued with the same lineup, the group would have lasted only a couple of months and would have broken up again. But a couple of days later, Alexey Romanov called Evgeny Margulis and the first members of the group began rehearsals. Now there was no leader in the team. Everyone was equal. Without Nikolsky's dictate, everything fell into place.

The final composition of the revived group included Romanov, Margulis, Sapunov, Shevyakov and - at first - Alexey Makarevich. The group gave their first concert on Easter, May 1, 1994 in St. Petersburg, together with Cruise. The reunion was celebrated with grandiose concerts in the Rossiya hall, which were recorded in every possible way and then released on all possible media by Silence Pro under the title “We Love You.”

Today the group lives normal life- writes new songs, goes on tour, appears on television, in general, life goes on...

"Resurrection" - There is a sediment of evil in my soul. 1992

People far from rock and roll culture don’t know much about the Resurrection group: mature team, who once performed “On the Road of Disappointment,” in which he himself participated. Music lovers are aware that Makarevich from “Resurrection” was called Alexey, and the group at the turn of the 70s and 80s recorded two cult albums: for one, most of the songs were composed by Alexey Romanov, for the second - .

Compound

The history of the Resurrection group is in many ways similar to history - leaders Romanov and Makarevich assembled their first groups in 1969. The second, however, immediately decided on the name, but the Romanov group was first called “Stray Clouds”. It consisted of guitarist Alexei Romanov himself and vocalist Viktor Kirsanov.

A little later they were joined by guitarist Sergei Tsvilkov, bass guitarist Alexey Shadrin and Yuri Borzov, who played drums. The band's repertoire included classic songs in the rock and roll style. The participants chose a psychedelically creative name - “Guys Who Start Playing When the Striped Hippo Crosses the Zambezi River.” A couple of years later the group broke up.

In the spring of 1979, the story of “Resurrection” itself begins: Sergei Kavagoe, the drummer of “Time Machine,” left the group and turned to Romanov with an offer to work together. In June, the guys were joined by a bassist who also left Mashina. The lead guitar was offered to Alexei Makarevich, Andrei's cousin.

They wrote the first 10 songs practically on their knees. A couple of them end up on the Moscow World Service radio station, which broadcast on the eve of the 1980 Olympic Games, and “Resurrection” becomes incredibly popular. Superhit "Who's to Blame?" in 1979 he took fifth place in the Moskovsky Komsomolets rating, ahead of the famous “Turn”.

In September, Margulis left the group, going to travel, his place was taken by. A couple of months later, the group gives its first sold-out concerts - “Resurrection” at the height of its glory. After the New Year, Evgeny Margulis returned, saxophonist Pavel Smeyan and Sergey Kuzminok, who played the trumpet, joined the group.

For the first album they are taking five songs from the pen of Konstantin Nikolsky - the story of “Resurrection” will also be connected with him. One of them was “Night Bird”, the hit was performed by Andrey Sapunov. The author was dissatisfied with the result; moreover, Soviet censors saw sedition in the song. Later, Nikolsky will begin to perform the masterpiece on his own and include it in his solo album.

In September the team breaks up: Margulis leaves for Araks, Makarevich and Kavagoe finish musical career. Alexey Romanov remains alone. In desperation, he followed Evgeniy to Araks and was listed as the author of the texts. Unexpectedly, Konstantin Nikolsky, then known as the author of the lyrics of the hit “Old Piano,” contacted him.

So in 1980 the band was revived: Romanov, Sapunov, Nikolsky and new drummer Mikhail Shevyakov. The lyrical texts of Konstantin Nikolsky were pathetic and bright, the songs were remembered by fans from the first time. In 1982, the group recorded their first album with this lineup; at the end of the year, concerts took place in Leningrad and Tashkent.

“Resurrection” broke up again in 1983, this was due to the arrest of Romanov, who was accused of entrepreneurship - organizing concerts. He received a suspended sentence of 3.5 years with confiscation of funds from his savings book.

In March 1994, the third line-up of the Resurrection group gave its first concert: this time Nikolsky took the leadership position. At one of the rehearsals, he stated that his word should be decisive - however, the self-sufficient and experienced Romanov, Sapunov and Shevyakov were not ready to obey. The psychological climate became tense, and Konstantin Nikolsky left the group forever.

In 2000, “Resurrection” was invited to “Maxidrom”, in 2002 – to “Wings”. They recorded albums that consisted of both new and forgotten songs. Since the fall of 2003, “Resurrection” has performed as a trio, but former members of the group periodically joined them at concerts.

For example, on October 4, 2014, the concert “From Sunday to Resurrection” took place at Crocus City Hall. All the participants who took part in the creative path team, except for three: Konstantin Nikolsky and the late Sergei Kavagoe and Alexei Makarevich.

Music

Difficult to select musical style, in which the band plays: it’s not just rock, but rather a mixture of blues, country, rock and roll and psychedelic rock. It is unique, it can safely be called “Voskresensky”. And given the constant changes in the composition of the group, there was no unity in performance over the years.

With each composition, the leaders and soloists understood that important point is the presence of a qualified technician - a “sound engineer”. The operators changed, but the quality of the music produced by “Resurrection” from the first year of their performances was at its best - sound adjustments accompanied success.

Group "Resurrection" now

The current composition of “Resurrection”: poet and vocalist Alexey Romanov, drummer Alexey Korobkov, keyboardist Yuri Smolyakov and bass guitarist Sergei Timofeev. The last to leave the band was Andrei Sapunov, singer and composer. One of the reasons was the conflict that occurred due to a concert on the Crimean peninsula in 2016: the group performed in musical theater Simferopol.

When asked why Sapunov did not come, Alexey Romanov told fans that the reason was political convictions; the musician did not want to perform in the occupied territory. After such statements, the group was bombarded with eggs. Despite leaving, Vladimir Sapunov, his brother, continued to hold the position of director. And the vocalist himself continues to perform with the group, now as “Resurrection” and Andrey Sapunov.”

The team does not have an account on Instagram, but there is an official website. There, in addition to news, photos and chords with texts, there is a rider and an online store that sells discs and T-shirts with the logo.

In 2015, journalist Andrei Burlaka published the book “Resurrection. An illustrated history of the group." Feedback from fans is positive: the text is light, with elements of irony. Together with the group members, the reader lives a creative life from the beginning of the formation of the group to the present day. Most of the photographs used in the book are unique.

In 2018, the Resurrection group has many concerts planned: in Moscow, Riga and other cities. Alexey Romanov says that the life of the group goes as usual: the group records songs, goes on tour, accepts invitations to television and radio shows.

In February, the group already held a joint pre-anniversary performance with the team “Time Machine” at the Crocus City Hall. In 2019, Makarevich’s group will celebrate its fiftieth birthday, and “Resurrection” will celebrate its fortieth birthday.

Clips

• "Snow Woman"
• "Dream"
• "Faith Hope Love"
• "Something happened"
• "Be with me"
• "I was too"
• "Leaf Fall"

Discography

• 1979 – “Resurrection 1”
• 1981 – “Resurrection 2”
• 1995 – “We love you”
• 1988 – “Living Collection”
• 2001 – “50 for two” - joint album with the group “Time Machine”
• 2001 – “All over again”
• 2003 – “Take your time…”
• 2004 – “Look how I live”

Its foundations were laid in June 1979, when, having left the Time Machine, Evgeniy Margulis (bass, guitar, vocals) and Sergei Kawagoe (drums) decided to organize a new group. Around the same time, searching suitable partners there was a songwriter, singer and guitarist Alexey Romanov, who began playing rock and roll back in the late 60s, in 1973 he joined Mashina Vremeni for several months, then he began composing songs himself, as a result of which he soon went into "Danger Zone", the leader of which was cousin Andrey Makarevich, Alexey. They performed Romanov's songs, later changed their name to "Kuznetsky Most", and separated in 1977.

The original lineup of the group, not without a hint called “Resurrection” (only later, under the pressure of various circumstances, “and” replaced the neutral soft sign), included Romanov (guitar, vocals), Margulis (bass, vocals), Alexey Makarevich (keyboards, vocals) and Kawagoe (drums); The wind section was made up of Sergei Kuzminok (trumpet), who also played in “The Time Machine,” and Pavel Smeyan (saxophone) came from “Victoria.” The group's repertoire consisted of songs by Romanov and Margulis, and Andrei Sapunov (guitar, vocals), who appeared in "Resurrection" a little later, brought with him the songs of his colleague in "Flowers" Konstantin Nikolsky.

They managed to give a few concerts and recorded material for two magnetic albums. Immediately scattered throughout the country, they were perceived by many as recordings of the new “Machine” and made the group’s name popular. The lyrical hero of "Resurrection" - as a rule, a person who survived the collapse of a dream, but did not lose his ideals, who went through severe life trials, but was not broken by them - turned out to be a very symptomatic figure for domestic rock of the early 80s, and fresh, memorable the melodies quickly found their way to listeners and entered the popular repertoire throughout the country for a long time. At the same time, the situation in Moscow at that time was not conducive to the existence of an underground rock scene - by October 1980, “Resurrection” had actually disintegrated: Smeyan joined Chris Kelmi’s “Rock Studio”, Kuzminok left the stage, Makarevich was staging variety programs, Kawagoe subsequently emigrated to Japan, and Margulis became the bass guitarist of "Araks", whose repertoire was supplemented by many of Romanov's songs.

Only next summer former members On Sunday another opportunity to sign up appeared. June 7 - June 10, 1981 in the basement of the Institute international relations The group's constant sound engineer, Artem Arutyunov, recorded Romanov's songs Resurrection, People Like in a Dark Thicket, Reggae, Train, Who's to Blame, Soldier and Traitor, as well as One Look Back and Nikolsky's Blues. Participating in the work were: Romanov and Nikolsky (guitars and vocals), Sapunov (bass, vocals) and Mikhail Shevyakov (drums). Although this line-up of the group never actually existed outside of the studio, it was this line-up (as well as the songs from this album) that became the most famous in the history of the group. In May 1982, Romanov, who was unemployed and without musicians at the time, accepted the invitation of former Time Machine sound engineer Hovhannes Melik-Pashayev and led the group he assembled. The group of Hovhannes Melik-Pashayev (which became part of in a certain sense The new incarnation of "Resurrection" included: Vadim Golutvin (ex-"Araks"; guitar), Igor Klenov (ex-"Six Young"; bass), Pyotr Podgorodetsky (ex-"Time Machine"; keyboards) and Alexander Volovik (drums ). They intensively toured the country, replaced Volovik with Vladimir Voronin from Fantasia, the following spring got a job at the Moscow Regional Philharmonic (their director at that time, by the way, was the current president of PolyGram Russia, Boris Zosimov) and recorded a new album, “Rejoice!” (1983), however, in the summer of 1983 Romanov was unexpectedly arrested and put in prison on trumped-up charges of organizing illegal concerts. The group holding on to it quickly rolled downhill. In 1983-84, Alexey Antonov, Oleg Kuryatnikov, Anatoly Aleshin from Araks flashed at the microphone, who naturally sang Romanov’s songs, but all this could not stop the process of collapse. In the spring of 1984, Golutvin left the group, and in May, Melik-Pashayev himself played the guitar on the stage of the Wings of the Soviets Sports Palace.

Later that year, Golutvin and Romanov, who had returned to freedom, formed the Salyut group, which existed for a year and a half, and at the end of the 80s they met as part of SV, which, again, played Romanov’s songs. In 1990, after the collapse of his group "Lotos", Sapunov joined them.

In 1992, when the Moscow company "FeeLee" released the group's second album on record, several attempts were made to reorganize "Sunday" in one form or another. Several performances by the second line-up of the group took place, but ultimately Romanov and Nikolsky went in different directions.

The next stage in the history of “Resurrection” began only in May 1994, when, on a wave of nostalgia, the group gathered in its “almost original” lineup of the early 80s: Romanov, Margulis, Sapunov, Makarevich and Mikhail Shevyakov, who took the place of Kawagoe, who now lives in Japan . On the May holidays, they gave two warmly received concerts in the St. Petersburg Oktyabrsky cinema and concert hall (it is curious that in those years the group never performed in Leningrad), after which the “resurrection” of “Resurrection” was officially announced. Since then, they regularly perform in Moscow, occasionally tour, and work in the studio (but, unfortunately, not on their new material). Alexey Makarevich again left the stage in December 1994 to work on his pop project “Lyceum”.