Our Time: 30 Unique Interviews About Who, When and How Created Our Music Scene
7 hrs. 58 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Mikhail Margolis
Author
Mikhail Margolis
Narrator
Alexander Sharonov
Narrator
Alexander Sharonov
Description
Mikhail Margolis’s new book is devoted to the history of Russian show business and the key figures on its front stage and behind the scenes. It is based on a unique documentary chronicle—interviews once made by Margolis himself. Preserved in newspaper and magazine archives, audiotape recordings, and various broadcasts—these are testimonies of an era, the direct speech of the heroes and eyewitnesses.
Together with the author, we’ll travel back 10, 20, 30 years. Times when Igor Talkov had just been shot before a concert, Valery Meladze was still an unknown singer to anyone, Igor Krutoy lived in Moscow in a communal apartment with an old lady, and Fyodor Bondarchuk predicted the death of music videos. It was the time when Linda and Deetsl appeared on stage. It was the time when the 26-year-old Philip Kirkorov believed the image of an artist on stage should be modest. It was the time when Russian rock came out of the underground and, unexpectedly for itself, began to gather stadiums after tasting real fame.
In this book, you’ll read interviews with Alla Pugachova, Boris Grebenshchikov, Stas Namin, Tigran Keosayan, Alyona Sviridova, and other people who made Russian show business the way we see it today.
Some names have already become classics; others are hardly remembered now. In this book there is enough direct speech, facts, close-ups, portraits—to feel how Russian musical “survival games” developed and changed, together with its players and with our reality.
Together with the author, we’ll travel back 10, 20, 30 years. Times when Igor Talkov had just been shot before a concert, Valery Meladze was still an unknown singer to anyone, Igor Krutoy lived in Moscow in a communal apartment with an old lady, and Fyodor Bondarchuk predicted the death of music videos. It was the time when Linda and Deetsl appeared on stage. It was the time when the 26-year-old Philip Kirkorov believed the image of an artist on stage should be modest. It was the time when Russian rock came out of the underground and, unexpectedly for itself, began to gather stadiums after tasting real fame.
In this book, you’ll read interviews with Alla Pugachova, Boris Grebenshchikov, Stas Namin, Tigran Keosayan, Alyona Sviridova, and other people who made Russian show business the way we see it today.
Some names have already become classics; others are hardly remembered now. In this book there is enough direct speech, facts, close-ups, portraits—to feel how Russian musical “survival games” developed and changed, together with its players and with our reality.
