Group "Time Machine" year of creation - 1968. (Moscow city)
Brief biography :
It was organized in one of the Moscow schools. The founder of the well-known Andrey Makarevich. He performed a year earlier in the vocal-guitar quartet "The Kids" at school parties.
Often songs were sung in English. (Because of the desire to be like gr. "").
In the 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.
Having survived troubled times, in the autumn of 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 performed very successfully at the Tallinn Days of Popular Music and later gave 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 the cultural policy of the country changed, the MV again begins 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.
The most famous hits of 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.
Several times in my life I had the same dream. Its essence was that I had to get somewhere where they were waiting for me. On the way, various everyday difficulties arose, I lingered here and there and as a result I was late, but somehow very much - say, for a whole day - and came when there was no one else, the lights were dimmed, the chairs were turned over and the cleaning lady mop the floor. I don't know why, but I've never experienced a more acute sense of loss.
A.V. Makarevich.
In 1968, Andrei Makarevich and his classmates organized an amateur rock group called The Kids. In 1969, it became known as "Time Machines" ("Time Machines"), and the songs were performed in English. In 1973, the name was changed to a single number - "Time Machine", which remains to this day.
Having performed in 1976 at the festival "Tallinn Songs of Youth - 76" in Estonia and received the first prize, "Time Machine" becomes popular.
In the 1980s, the group gained all-Union popularity. "Time Machine" is allowed on television (program "Musical Ring"), radio, songs written in the 1970s "Turn", "Candle", "Three Windows" become popular. "Turn" for 18 months leads the hit parade of the "Soundtrack" of Moskovsky Komsomolets. "Time Machine" takes part in the filming of the musical film "Soul" with Sofia Rotaru in the title role.
The rock band actively tours the cities of the USSR. The hits "Jumps", "Blue Bird", "Puppets" are heard in restaurants and at weddings. The group's underground magnetic albums circulate in large numbers.
Over the years, such musicians as Alexander Kutikov, Evgeny Margulis, Pyotr Podgorodetsky and others became famous as part of the Time Machine. Due to the large number of composers, the band's musical style is eclectic. In their work, the musicians use elements of classic rock, rock and roll, blues, bard songs.
"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.
The ensemble, which was destined to go down in history as the "Time Machine", had not been called at all before, and consisted of 2 guitars (Andrei Makarevich and Mikhail Yashin), and two girls (Larisa Kashperko and Nina Baranova), who sang English American folk songs.
It all really started in 1968, when Andrey Makarevich first heard the Beatles. Then two new guys came to their class: Yura Borzov and Igor Mazaev, who joined the new group "The Kids". The first composition of the group "The Kids" was approximately as follows: Andrei Makarevich, Igor Mazaev, Yuri Borzov, Alexander Ivanov and Pavel Ruben. Another was Borzov's childhood friend, Sergei Kavagoe, at whose insistence the singer girls were fired. After some time, the first album of the "Time Machine" group was recorded (originally planned as "Time Machine", i.e. in the plural). The album consisted of eleven songs in English. The recording technique was not difficult - in the center of the room there was a tape recorder with a microphone, and the members of the group were in front of it. Alas, this legendary record is now lost.
1971 Alexander Kutikov appears in the group, who brought the spirit of major cloudless rock and roll to the team. Under his influence, the group's repertoire was replenished with joyful songs "Seller of Happiness", "Soldier", etc. At the same time, the first concert of "Time Machine" took place on the stage of the Energetik Palace of Culture - the cradle of Moscow rock.
1972 The first troubles begin. Igor Mazaev is taken into the army, and soon Yura Borzov, who was a drummer in the group, leaves. The resilient Kutikov brings Max Kapitanovsky to the group, but soon he is also taken into the army. And then Sergey Kavagoe sits down at the drums. Later, Igor Saulsky joins the line-up, who left the group so many times and returned
again, that it is simply impossible to determine exactly when he was in the line-up and when he was not.
1973 Between Kawagoe and Kutikov every now and then there are minor frictions. In the end, this leads to the fact that in the spring Kutikov leaves for the Leap Summer group.
1974 Sergei Kavagoe brings Igor Degtyaryuk to the group, who stayed in the squad for about half a year, and then left, it seems, for Arsenal. Kutikov returned from Leap Summer, and for some time the group played in the line-up: Makarevich - Kutikov - Kavagoe - Alexei Romanov. This lasted until the summer of 1975.
1975 Romanov leaves the group, and in the summer Kutikov suddenly leaves, and not just anywhere, but to the Tula State Philharmonic. At the same time, Evgeny Margulis appeared in the group, and a little later the violinist Kolya Larin.
1976"Time Machine" is invited to Talin to the "Tallinn Songs of Youth-76" festival, where they perform with brilliance, and where they first meet Boris Grebenshchikov and the Aquarium group, which at that time was a nice acoustic quartet. Grebenshchikov invites them to Peter. Their concerts are wildly popular. Violinist Kolya Larin is no longer in the line-up, and his place is taken by a certain Seryozha Ostashev, who also did not stay long. At the same time, Yura Ilyichenko, the soloist of "Myths", joined the group.
1977 Ilyichenko, longing for his native city, leaves for St. Petersburg, and the "Time Machine" stays together for a short time. And then Andrey comes up with the idea to introduce wind players into the group. So a brass section appears in the group: Evgeny Legusov and Sergey Velitsky.
1978 The composition is being replaced. Instead of Velitsky, Sergey Kuzminok comes to the team. In the same year, the first studio recording of "Time Machine" takes place. Kutikov, who by that time had played in Leap Summer, got a job at the GITIS training speech studio in order to use the studio for its intended purpose. Andrei Makarevich turns to him, Kutikov promises to arrange everything, and a few days later the recording begins, known to us as "It was so long ago ...". It lasted a whole week, and it included almost all (at that time) songs of "Time Machine", with the exception of the first early ones. The recording turned out great, and within a month it sounded everywhere. It is a pity that its original has been lost, and what we are listening to today is a copy that happened to be in the possession of one of Andrei's acquaintances. In the fall, "Time Machine" parted with the pipes, and the synthesizer in the person of Sasha Voronov entered the group, though not for long.
1979 The group is falling apart. Sergei Kavagoe and Yevgeny Margulis leave for Resurrection. At the same time, Kutikov returns to the group, who brings Efremov with him, and a little later Petya Podgorodetsky joins the group. "Time Machine" begins to rehearse in a new line-up, and the group's repertoire is replenished with such things as "Candle", "Who did you want to surprise", "Crystal City", "Turn". In the same year, "Time Machine" becomes a group of the Moscow Touring Comedy Theater at the Rosconcert.
1980"Time Machine" is already very popular, and its name on theater posters is a guarantee that tickets will be sold out. The theater poster looked like this: very large at the top - "The Time Machine Ensemble", and then small, on the verge of legibility - "In the play of the Moscow Comedy Theater" Windsor Mockery "based on the play by W. Shakespeare. "The only problem is that the spectators walking on the inscription "Time Machine", they really could see their favorite group, which sang completely unknown songs on the verge of intelligibility of sound. It was not quite what the audience expected to see, but this did not care much for the management of the theater, which received huge profits. It could not last long And then Rosconcert decided that it would be much more profitable to use the "Machine" to its fullest. After a successful audition, the "Time Machine" becomes an independent professional rock band. At the same time, the famous festival in Tbilisi - "Spring Rhythms-80" happened. "Time Machine" shares first place with the group "Magnetic Band"
1981 A hit parade appears in the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, and the song "Povorot" is declared the song of the year in it. She stayed in first place for a total of 18 months. All this time, the group had no right to perform it at concerts, because. it was not filled in, and it was not filled in because Rosconcert did not send it to LIT, as it had doubts about which turn was meant. The fact that "Turn" sounded five times a day on "Radio Moscow" did not bother anyone.
1982 The newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" burst into a group of articles "Blue Bird Stew". In response, the editorial office was littered with bags of letters under the general motto "Hands off the Machine." The newspaper, which did not expect such a rebuff, had to reduce everything to a general toothless controversy - the matter, they say, is young, and opinions may be different. "Blue bird stew "Coincided with another split in the group. Petya Podgorodetsky leaves. After a while, Sergey Ryzhenko offers himself, and a little later Alexander Zaitsev joins the line-up.
1983 Sergei Ryzhenko, who had to play supporting roles, leaves, and the "Time Machine" remains four.
In general, this time is characterized by Andrei Makarveich himself as a time of relative calm. Although, to say that the group did nothing at all would be a lie. Perhaps, approximately from this period, it began to take shape. as a professional, sustainable team.
1985 Recorded magnetic album "Fish in a Bank" (mini-album), the group is working on recording music for the film "Speed" (dir. D. Svetozarov).
In the same year, "MV" takes part in the cultural program of the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.
The second magnetic album of Andrey Makarevich's acoustic songs was recorded
The group takes part in the filming of the film "Start over" (dir. A. Stefanovich) One moment of clarification: indeed, the group, and not just one, Andrei Makarevich starred in this film. Although. Of course, AM played the main role.
1986 The film "Begin Again" is released on a wide screen. A new concert program "Rivers and Bridges" is being prepared, almost simultaneously the recording of the double album "Rivers and Bridges" is taking place at the Melodiya company. In the same year, positive changes began in relation to the "MV" on television. The group participates in TV programs "Merry Fellows", "Song-86" and "What, where, when?" (performed: "Dedication to the cow", "Song that does not exist" and "Music under the snow") The group also takes part in the popular music festival Rock-panorama-86 (Moscow), after which. very promptly for those times, the giant disc "Rock-panorama-86" with the songs "Music under the snow", "Good hour" ("Melody") is released. On another disk of the giant "Happy New Year!", the song "Fish in a Bank" ("Melody") appears. Participation in the filming of the film "I return your portrait." And, finally, a disc-minion with two songs "Fish in a Bank" and "Two White Snows" (Yu. Saulsky, I. Zavalnyuk) is released. Yuri Saulsky (as you know, he helped the group in the "difficult" years).
1987 The group takes part in the New Year's "Blue Light -87" and the TV program "Morning Mail" with the song "Where there will be a new day." "MV" was once again invited to the TV program "Musical Ring" (Leningrad TV, host T. Maksimova), in which she played brilliantly. The program was then broadcast on Central Television. Attention! This year, the Melodiya company releases the first giant disc of the Time Machine group, Good Hour. The big minus of this disc is that, oddly enough, it was formed without the direct participation of musicians, and for this reason it is considered insufficient for such a high-profile title as First Disk. And yet, from a discographic point of view, it is. Following this, the double album "Rivers and Bridges" ("Melody"), already fully processed and recorded by the musicians, is released, which is a holistic, ordered piece of music. Along the way, they are recorded as a retrospective of the film "Soul" of the song "The Way", "Bonfire" on the disc-minion "Bonfire" together with S. Rotaru, ("Melody")
1988"MV" pleases viewers again with its participation in the New Year's "Blue Light -88" (song "Fluger") Work is underway to record music for films: "Without a Uniform" and "Bards". The retro-disc "Ten years later" ("Melody") is released. The group is preparing a new concert program "In the circle of the world", the premiere of which took place in the summer at the State Central Concert Hall "Russia". At the same time, a giant disk of this program is being recorded. A CD-cassette "Rivers and Bridges" is released on Melodiya. In the same place, on Melodiya, a giant disc "Musical Teletype-3" is released, which also includes the song "MV" "She goes through life laughing", a compact cassette "Rock group" Time Machine "(together with the group Secret) "songs: Turn, Our house, You or me and others.
Foreign tours begin: this year Bulgaria, Canada, USA, Spain and Greece
On the radio station "Youth" (the program "World of Hobbies", presenter T. Bodrova), two radio programs about the work of "Machine" are broadcast.
1989 The giant disk "In the circle of the world" ("Melody") is released. Foreign tours in Africa, England.
This year is also marked by a six-hour anniversary concert dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the group (Small sports arena of the Luzhniki stadium, Moscow). And on "Melody" single recordings of songs continue, such as: "Heroes of yesterday" and "Let me dream" (music by A. Kutikov, lyrics by M. Pushkina, performance by A. Kutikov) - a giant disc "Radio station Yunost. Hit parade Alexander Gradsky", a giant disk Radio station Yunost. Hit parade of Alexander Gradsky. This year, Andrei Makarevich's first solo album, the giant disc "Songs to the Guitar", is being recorded and released.
1990 It becomes a good tradition to take part in the New Year's Blue Light. Now this is a light -90 (the song "New Year"). The year was marked by the return of Evgeny Margulis and Peter Podgorodetsky to the group. Work is in full swing at "Synthesis Records" on the giant disc "Slow Good Music". The firm "Melody" releases a compact cassette "Andrei Makarevich. Songs for the guitar", and "Senitese" "In the circle of the world".
In addition to musical events, there is the Exhibition "Graphics by Andrey Makarevich" and the film "Rock and Fortune. 20 Years of Time Machine" (dir. N. Orlov) is released
1991 "MV" takes part in the International Festival "Musicians of the World to the Children of Chernobyl" (Minsk), as well as in the Charity Action of Solidarity with the "Vzglyad" program (USZ Friendship, Andrei Makarevich's initiative). Political moment: Andrei Makarevich's speech at the barricades on August 19-22 before the defenders of the White House during the days of the coup d'état. Musical moments: the release of the double album and compact cassette "Time Machine is 20 years old!" ("Melody"), release of a giant disc and CD "Slow Good Music", recording and release of Andrey Makarevich's giant disc "At the pawnshop" ("Synthesis Records"). Presentation at the State Central Concert Hall Russia.
Exhibition of graphic works by Andrei Makarevich in Italy
1992 Participation of Andrei Makarevich in the filming of the film "Crazy Love" in the role of Dr. Barkov (dir. A. Kvirikashvili). Andrei Makarevich's book "Everything is very simple" (Stories from the life of the Time Machine group) is being published At the Sintez Records studio, a disc is being recorded -giant "Freelance Commander of the Earth"
1993 As usual - participation in the New Year's Blue Light -93 ("Christmas Song") Synthesis Records is released: a double album "Time Machine. It was so long ago". (Recorded in 1978), giant disc "Freelance Commander of the Earth", retro discs "Time Machine. Best Songs. 1979-1985" (2 discs), compact discs (CD) "Freelance Commander of the Earth" and "The Best ". The "Russian Disk" company releases a CD "Slow good music", and this year marks the 40th anniversary of Andrei Makarevich! On this occasion, a wonderful benefit performance was arranged at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall - a concert with the participation of a large number of good musicians and friends of A.M.
1994 The year began with participation in the New Year's Blue Light -94 (the song "This Eternal Blues") The Moscow Palace of Youth hosts a presentation of the disc "Freelance Commander of the Earth" Andrei Makarevich's solo concerts in Moscow (c / t "October", the Great Hall of the Olympic Village). In addition, a solo disc by A.M. "I draw you." The former drummer of the group and sound engineer Maxim Kapitanovsky wrote the book "Everything is very difficult" This year, "Time Machine" turns 25 years old! Which was marked by a grandiose festive concert on Red Square in Moscow.
1995 The disc "Who did you want to surprise" comes out - a collection of well-known songs for a long time.
1996 The release of the album "Cardboard Wings of Love". In December, joint concerts of Andrei Makarevich and Boris Grebenshchikov are held at the State Central Concert Hall "Russia", + the disc "Twenty years later" will be released
1997 The release of the disc "Bringing Off", the presentation of the album took place in the Gorbunov Palace of Culture.
1998 In May, the Oktyabr Concert Hall hosted the presentation of Andrey Makarevich's solo disc "Women's Album". In December, a press conference was held at the "Rhythm-Blues-Cafe", at which it was officially announced the start of a world tour dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the group. At the same press conference, the imminent appearance of the "Clock and Signs" was announced.
1999 January 29, the first concert of the anniversary tour - a concert in Tel Aviv, Israel. June 27. The official birthday of "Time Machine", 30 years. The rock group was awarded "For Merits in the Development of Musical Art" by President Boris Yeltsin the Order of Honor. The awards ceremony took place on June 24 with a live broadcast on TV. In November, a press conference "MV" dedicated to the release of the album "Clocks and Signs" was held at the Central Department Store. On December 8, the grandiose final concert of the anniversary tour of the 30th anniversary of MV took place at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex in Moscow. After the concert, the next day there are changes in the group: the keyboard player, Peter Podgorodetsky, was fired, and Andrey Derzhavin was taken in his place.
year 2000. In January, the band's first concert took place in the Olympic Village in Moscow with a new keyboardist, Andrey Derzhavin, a former pop musician who previously helped Kutikov record his "Dancing on the Roof" (1989) and Margulis in "7 + 1" (1997).
In February, a joint tour with the Resurrection group called "50 for Two" began. It took place in Moscow in March. It continued as "50 for two at the request of listeners" in a number of cities in Russia and abroad. June 17 "Time Machine" plays at the rock festival "Wings" in Tushino.
On September 2, Andrei Makarevich took part in a 7-hour rock marathon in New York. In addition to him, the following took part: Resurrection, Chaif, G. Sukachev and others. Since August, Makarevich has been working with Artur Pilyavin, head of the Kvartal group, on the project Time for Hire.
In mid-October, a maxi-single by Andrey Makarevich and Artur Pilyavin is released with three old songs "Time Machine".
On December 9, the final concert of the MV and Resurrection tour "50 Years for Two" was held at the Moscow TsKD. The TV version, slightly truncated, was shown on the TVC channel. On the New Year's Eve channel TV-6, the premiere of the film "Showcase" took place, in which Andrei Makarevich's songs were performed, accompanied by "Quarter".
year 2001. On February 27, the presentation of the new Web project "Time Machines" "Strange Mechanics" took place. It was stated that this new official site would be the only place to get reliable and up-to-date information about the band and its musicians.
On May 18, a live double album went on sale, the songs of which were recorded during the tour together with the Resurrection group.
On August 1, the single "Stars do not ride the subway" was released with four songs from the album "A place where the light is."
The publishing house "Zakharov" published Andrey Makarevich's book "Sam Sheep", consisting of three parts: "Sam Sheep", the previously published history of the group "Everything is very simple" and the last section "House".
On October 31, the album "A place where the light" was released, which was received very warmly by the public. A lot of revelations, excellent sounding did their job. According to a poll of listeners, the new keyboard player A. Derzhavin on this disc fit into the sound of the group.
2002 On May 9, A. Makarevich performed on Red Square in a concert dedicated to the Victory Day, performing "Bonfire" and "Life is more than death" with the guitar.
In October, Sintez Records releases two combined albums "The Best" by A. Kutikov and E. Margulis, consisting of songs performed by them as part of the group. Throughout 2002, the group actively performs with concerts in Moscow clubs, in the KZ of the Olympic Village, not forgetting about visiting tours.
On October 29, A. Makarevich gave a concert at the Moscow Operetta Theater to present to the public his new solo album "Etc.", recorded with the musicians of the newly created Creole Tango Orchestra.
Since December, "MV" has been performing with the program "Prosto Mashina", which, as stated, consists of the best songs for 33 years of the group's existence.
On March 19, the first concert "Russian Rock in Classic" was held in the Kremlin Palace, where the MV theme "You or Me" was performed by the symphony orchestra.
2003 In May, the Kultura TV channel showed a film dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the composer Isaac Schwartz, for whom Makarevich recorded the song "The Cavalry Guard does not last long" to B. Okudzhava's verses.
On October 15, Andrey Makarevich presented on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater the program "A thin scar on his beloved priest" with songs by Mark Freidkin and the participation of Max Leonidov, Evgeny Margulis, Alena Sviridova, Tatyana Lazareva and the Creole Tango Orchestra. On the same day, the album of the same name appeared on sale.
On December 5, "Sintez records" for the anniversary of AM releases a gift disc "Favorites of Andrey Makarevich", on 6 CDs with bonuses: unreleased songs "I've been inclined to change places since childhood" and "It was in the dens of San Francisco" (previously recorded for cinema and the album "Pioneer thieves' songs"), as well as several song dedications to friends.
December 11, 2003 - Andrei Makarevich's 50th birthday. In the State Concert Hall "Russia" a holiday-concert of the hero of the day and his friends was arranged.
2004 Anniversary year.
May 30 on Red Square "Time Machine" celebrates its 35th anniversary. The concert took place within the framework of the action "Future without AIDS". "Time Machine" joined the AIDS movement along with Elton John, Queen musicians, Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya. This project was continued in St. Petersburg and other major cities of the country.
On July 5, Channel One premiered the detective story "Dancer", filmed a year ago by Dmitry Svetozarov. Andrei Makarevich and Andrei Derzhavin took part in the creation of the soundtrack for "Dancer". A. Makarevich acted not only as a composer and poet, but also as a general producer and initiator of filming.
Two more significant events take place this autumn. The release of the Anthology "Time Machine", which included 19 albums of the group for 35 years, a DVD collection of 22 clips and a lot of pleasant souvenirs for fans of the musicians (circulation 1200 copies).
And on November 25, 2004, the new album "Machinically" was released (for the first time in the history of the group, a competition for the best album name among fans was announced).
Alexander Kutikov: "Long turn" is a completely author's book. But at the same time it will be called "Biography of the Time Machine".
Current and former "machinists" took up memoirs early, and fans of "MV" already, I believe, have formed a certain retrospective library. It can include not only the writings of Andrei Makarevich, Maxim Kapitanovsky, Pyotr Podgorodetsky, but also a lot of memoirs of people wandering on the Internet and in the printed press, who at different periods were somehow involved in the group.
However, the "Machine" rides and rides. Four decades! And its history is expanding and being rethought. No one has succeeded in such a long-range and hyper-successful flight in domestic rock music and is unlikely to succeed in the foreseeable future. This fact alone makes the "Time Machine" a unique phenomenon in our Palestinians. Starting as the Soviet Beatles, Makar and his comrades have turned into Russian Rolling Stones by today, at least from a chronological and status point of view.
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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 energy 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. Over the years, such musicians as Alexander Kutikov, Evgeny Margulis, Pyotr Podgorodetsky and others became famous as part of the Time Machine. Due to the large number of composers, the band's genre 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 the singular "Time Machine", which it remains to this day.
In the first years, the composition remains unstable, and the team remains amateur. At concerts, the group performs cover versions of The Beatles songs 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 Time Machine songs 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, a major financial scandal led to the almost complete collapse of the group. Margulis, Kavagoe and Alexey Romanov leave Makarevich and create the Resurrection group. Teaming up with Kutikov again, Makarevich recruits a new line-up, 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. The group's underground magnetic albums circulate in large numbers.
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 "The Time Machine" "The Blue Bird"), where the group and its music were subjected to unconstructive criticism. The article was compiled on the basis of an initiative letter from a group of well-known artists it was signed by writer Viktor Astafiev, chief director of the Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theater Maximillian Vysotsky, soloist of the diploma winner of the competition. Glinka Evgeny Oleinikov, director of the Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic Leonid Samoilov, conductor Nikolai Silvestrov, poet and playwright Roman Solntsev.
Meanwhile, Andrei Makarevich starred in the film "Start Over", whose main character is written off from himself. Several songs from the Time Machine are heard in the film. Only in 1986, the first official album of "Time Machine" "In Good Hour" was released, 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 "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 the possible reasons for the dismissal, the musicians of the group 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, the 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 - on Palace Square in St. Petersburg, where the number of spectators exceeds 60,000. On June 8, 2008, with the support of TNK-BP, "Time Machine" plays a free concert in the city of Ryazan on Lenin Square, which gathers about 20,000 spectators.
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 and 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 formation of the group, an internal conflict immediately occurs due to the repertoire: the majority wants to sing the songs of the Beatles, Makarevich insists on performing less well-known Western material, citing the fact that the Beatles sing too well and unprofessional imitation of them will look pitiful. 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 by English and American groups and their songs in English, written in imitation, but very quickly their own songs in Russian appear in the repertoire, the lyrics for which are written by Makarevich. The principles of the hippie movement, which became popular among part of the Soviet youth in the early 1970s, had a great influence on the style of the group.
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 Energetik Palace of Culture. 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, the "Machines" still cannot perform at that time in full force. The group goes to the Black Sea to perform in front of vacationers in the international student camp "Burevestnik-2". The concerts mainly perform one-on-one hits by Western groups (Sergey Grachev sings), but part of the program is devoted to songs from the Time Machines repertoire 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 of the Best Years, Yuri Fokin, was delayed in the Machines, 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 the Tula 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. For six months, Yuri Ilchenko comes to the group (formerly the soloist of the 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. The original version of 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. Melik-Pashaev’s commercial activities are bearing fruit: according to Sergei Kavagoe, in the last year of their underground existence, musicians earned more than a thousand rubles a month each with concerts (the salary of an engineer at the plant 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 for 1979, the program “The Little Prince” was created, based on the fairy tale of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, which is a concert “Time Machine”, where during the first part the songs were interspersed with text interludes from the book, selected more or less in tune with the texts 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 The Little Prince during one of the Time Machine's trips to Leningrad and distributed the recording reels. This recording of "The Little Prince" is the only known recording of the program in its early version and with the old band line-up. 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; a professional pianist, he makes a huge impression on Makarevich with his fantastic capacity for work 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 the party organs and the police makes it increasingly difficult to "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 the Rosconcert, and in November 1979 became part of the troupe of the Moscow Touring Regional Comedy Theater. 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”, dramatically 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 their 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 touring activity. Hovhannes Melik-Pashaev officially becomes the "artistic director" of the group, and Andrey Makarevich is indicated in small print on posters as "music director".
Andrey Makarevich receives a diploma from Yuri Sergeevich Saulsky at the Tbilisi-80 festival. In the new composition, 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.
It often happens that the name of a performer or a musical group becomes for millions of people a symbol of the era they lived - it is so closely woven into their personal memories that it becomes an integral part of them. For many current Russians, and especially for those whose youth fell on the seventies and eighties, this is, of course, the Time Machine group. The composition, photo and description of the creative path of the legendary team will be the topic of our article.
How it all began
It all started back in 1968, when the students of the Moscow school number 19 created a rock band called The Kids. Today's old people remember well that in those days it was rare to find a school that did not have its own vocal and instrumental ensemble. This fashion was a tribute to the general fascination with the songs of the then Western idols of the Beatles, and other inhabitants of the musical Olympus.
From English, the name of the group could be translated in different ways - “kids”, “guys” and even “goats”. So, the first line-up of these “goat kids” included: Andrei Makarevich, his friend Mikhail Yashin and two female vocalists - Larisa Kashpero and Nina Baranova. Imitating their idols, the group performed with the English-language repertoire at various school evenings and amateur concerts without much success. Looking ahead, it should be said that the composition of the Time Machine group will change many times over the years.
English version of the band's name
Fate gave them a chance when in the same year the professional VIA Atlanta performed at their school, and its leader A. Sikorsky communicated with young musicians on an equal footing and even played music with them during a break. This evening helped the guys to believe in themselves. The very next year they create a new team, which included their peers from the neighboring school number 20 - the same Beatles fans as they are. The path had begun.
The name of the group was taken, as in the first case, English - Time Machines, the prototype of the future "Time Machine", but in the plural. The first composition of the "Time Machine" was purely male. It included: Andrey Makarevich (guitar, vocals) - he will be a constant member of all subsequent bands, Igor Mazaev (bass guitar), (rhythm guitar), Sergey Kavagoe (keyboards), Pavel Rubin (bass guitar) and drummer Yuri Borzov. Of these, in the main, the future composition of the "Time Machine" will be formed.
Failed architects
Also in 1969, the first recording of Time Machines songs took place, performing mainly with a repertoire made up of cover versions of hits by American and English bands, supplemented by English-language compositions of their own composition. Only after some time he began to write lyrics in Russian. There is no doubt that during this period the musicians were influenced by the hippie movement, popular among Western and Soviet youth. This was reflected in their songs, and in the whole lifestyle.
The seventies begin for two members of the group, Andrei Makarevich and Yuri Borzov, with an important event - they enter the Moscow Architectural Institute, where, learning the secrets of architecture, they continue to study music. They also get acquainted with Alexei Romanov, who was soon to join the "Time Machine", and a little later - with A. Kutikov, who in 1971 was invited to the group to replace I. Mazaev, who had gone into the army.
Official appearance of the band's name
At the beginning of the seventies, the team continued to be amateur, and its composition changed several times. During these years, Time Machines successfully performed in the beat club, then created in Moscow under the patronage of the Komsomol City Committee. It is curious that a year earlier they were not accepted there because of the “low performance level”. By the way, at the beginning of their career, the Beatles were denied recording songs for the same reason.
The Russian-language and familiar name of the group first officially appeared in 1973 and was forever assigned to the team. Until 1975, he went through a difficult period, performing on dance floors and occasional concerts. During this period, the composition of the "Time Machine" has changed several times. Fifteen musicians managed to visit this collective. Problems arose in the life of the leader of the group A. Makarevich. Due to a conflict with the leadership of the architectural institute, he was expelled under a formal pretext.
Recognition of professionalism
The group's popularity skyrocketed when, after meeting Boris Grebenshchikov at the Tallinn Festival in 1976, she was given the opportunity to frequently tour in Leningrad. In the city on the Neva, she enjoyed constant success. The beginning of experiments with sound belongs to the same period. The composition of the "Time Machine" in 1977 was replenished by saxophonist E. Legusov and trumpeter S. Velitsky. This gave the songs in their performance a new expressiveness.
In 1980, having finally become a professional group, the group receives official status at the Rosconcert. O. Melik-Pashaev is appointed its artistic director, and A. Makarevich is its musical director. This year, "Time Machine" was expected to be a great success at the festival in Tbilisi, where it won the main prize, and thanks to which the first album released by the "Melody" company appeared.
Creativity live outside the ideological framework
Those who spent their youth under socialism remember how the Soviet ideology, deceitful and hypocritical in its essence, filled all spheres of life, and mass art languished under its especially strict control. In order for the audience to see the new program, it had to be approved in various instances and artistic councils, where its fate was decided by people who knew nothing about art and took into account only compliance with the requirements of the current party line.
The success of "Time Machine" at the Tbilisi Festival is explained not only by the artistic merits of the performance of the compositions. This was, in fact, the first time that musicians appeared on the official Soviet stage, standing out sharply from the general faceless, but ideologically consistent mass. Not without reason, discouraged by their phenomenal success, the organizers of the concert took measures to ensure that the winning musicians left the festival before it ended.
Triumph in the city on the Neva
In the 1980s, the group's popularity in Moscow and Leningrad reached unprecedented proportions. According to the recollections of eyewitnesses, the excitement at their tour concerts was comparable only to the madness of the Beatlemania era. The Palace of Sports, where the performances took place, was attacked by thousands of teenagers, and those who delivered the musicians were forced to resort to detour maneuvers in order to save the Time Machine from the enthusiastic crowd. 1980 was the beginning of their unprecedented rise.
The result of a twenty-year journey
In the early nineties, it is time to sum up the first results. Ideological censorship no longer exists, and Andrei Makarevich releases his book “Everything is very simple”, in which he talks about everything that the group has had to endure over the past twenty years. "Time Machine" is still among the most popular musical groups in the country. She takes part in many festivals and often travels with tour programs. Due to the fact that perestroika opened up the opportunity to freely travel abroad, the geography of their trips has expanded significantly, including many countries of the world.
The composition of the "Time Machine", by this time basically already established and time-tested, is periodically replenished with guest musicians, including Pavel Rubin, Alik Mazaev and a number of other names well-known to rock lovers. Without the participation of Andrei Makarevich and his team in the nineties, not a single New Year's program and not a single noticeable festival could do.
Group life in the difficult nineties
The group celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1994 with a grandiose concert on Red Square, in which many of the country's most popular musical groups took the stage with them. Their official position was largely strengthened due to the support that they provided to Boris Yeltsin, participating in the 1996 Vote or Lose campaign, which became part of his election campaign.
At the beginning of the 2000s, the composition of the Time Machine group was replenished with keyboardist Andrei Derzhavin. In their history, another stage begins, which included a lot of work related to the search for new forms of sound and the use of various audio effects. At the same time, the team does not stop concert activities and the release of discs, both in Russian studios and abroad. In particular, their albums are released by the famous English company Sintez Records, famous for producing Beatles records.
Events of the last decade
Makarevich begins the second decade of the 21st century with the release of three of his new books, which quickly became popular among music lovers of all ages. In 2012, a film dedicated to them, shot by M. Kapitanovsky, appeared at the box office. It was called "The Taymashin: The Birth of an Epoch" - this is a literal repetition of what was indicated in 1983 in the black list of ideologically unreliable musical groups "Time Machine".
The composition of the group has changed many times over the entire history of its existence. 2012 was no exception. At the end of June, E. Margulis left her, preferring the development of his own project. Soon his place was taken by Igor Khomich, who had previously collaborated with the Kalinov Most group. In 2014, the anniversary charity concert was held with great success on the site in front of the Luzhniki sports complex, in which the Time Machine group also performed. The line-up for 2014 has not changed, and on its 45th anniversary, the team performed the most popular hits.
Anxiety of our days
In early February 2015, the group's admirers were alarmed by information that appeared in the press about a split that allegedly occurred within the group, related to the different positions of its members regarding the events in Ukraine. This information seemed quite plausible, since recently political issues have become an exciting topic of discussion for many people. Fortunately, this was soon followed by a refutation.
Finally, let's name the composition of the Time Machine group in 2015, which has remained unchanged to this day: Andrey Makarevich (guitar, vocals), (vocals, bass guitar), Valery Efimov (drums) and Andrey Derzhavin (keyboards, backing vocals).
