When the musical group Time Machine appeared. The history of the rock group "Time Machine"
Domestic rock band founded in 1969 Andrey Makarevich And Sergei Kavagoe and being one of the founders of “Russian rock”.
About a year before the appearance of the now legendary group " Time Machine", in 1968, students of Moscow school No. 19 organized an ensemble called The Kids, which included Andrey Makarevich , Igor Mazaev, Yuri Borzov, Sergei Kavagoe, Alexander Ivanov And Pavel Ruben. At the very beginning of the ensemble’s existence, it also included two soloists - Larisa Kashperko And Nina Baranova. The children performed at school parties, where they sang songs of famous English and American groups.
In 1969, the first line-up of the new group was formed " Time Machine"(initially they wanted to call the group “Time Machines”). The team recorded their first magnetic album of 11 English-language songs. The recording was made on a regular tape recorder with a microphone standing in the center of the room.
Until the mid-70s, the composition of the group was constantly changing, with the exception of the trio Andrey Makarevich(guitar, vocals), Sergei Kavagoe(drums) and Alexander Kutikov(Bas-guitar).
In 1971 " Time Machine"gives his first concert in the "cradle of Moscow rock" - DC "Energetik".
Creative collaboration began in 1972 "Time Machines" with a famous group "The Best Years", which lasted several months. After this, the band's former drummer “The Best Years” Yuri Fokin plays for a while "Time Machine". In the same year they were drafted into the army Igor Mazaev, the drummer also leaves the band Yuri Borzov. Comes to the team Max Kapitanovsky, but soon he is also sent to serve his homeland. Sergei Kavagoe sits down at the drums himself. Later appears in the group Igor Saulsky from the team "Best Years".
In 1973 from "Time Machines" to the group "Leap Summer" leaves Alexander Kutikov. In the same year, the record company "Melody" releases a record Dmitry Linnik together with "Time Machine". This is the first official mention of the group.
The first filming took place in 1974 "Time Machines" in one of the film episodes “Afonya” (Georgy Danelia). The group receives its first fee of 600 rubles, which it spends on purchasing a tape recorder for recording songs. A new member reappears in the lineup - guitarist Igor Degtyaryuk.
In 1975 he joined the group Evgeny Margulis, who plays bass and writes for "Time Machines" songs with a blues twist.
In 1976, taking first place at the Estonian festival “Tallinn Youth Songs – 76”, "Time Machine" becomes popular throughout the country. This is where you get acquainted with the group " Aquarium" And Boris Grebenshchikov who invites "Car" on tour in Leningrad. The concerts are extremely popular. Second performance in Tallinn in 1977 it was no longer so successful.
A new soloist from the Leningrad group appears in the group “Myths” Yuri Ilyichenko, as well as brass players Evgeniy Legusov And Sergey Velitsky, which he replaced in 1978 Sergey Kuzminok.
Spring 1978 "Time Machine" took part in Sverdlovsk at the festival "Spring UPI", and also recorded her first studio album "It was so long ago…". The work took place semi-underground, in a speech studio GITIS. The album consisted of songs repeatedly performed by the group at concerts. The recording was played throughout the country and brought the group great popularity.
In 1978, the group was on the verge of collapse due to a serious conflict between Makarevich And Kawagoe. Sergei Kavagoe And Evgeny Margulis go to "Sunday", and returns to the team Kutikov. Later joins the group Peter Podgorodetsky. New line-up "Time Machines" produces songs such as "Candle", "Crystal City", "Turn", which became real national hits.
In 1979 "Time Machine" enters into a contract with Rosconcert and becomes part of the touring theater troupe, and later tours as an independent group.
By 1980 "Time Machine" already popular rock band . Still, some songs remain prohibited for performance as politically incorrect. This year "Time Machine" makes a splash with his performance Tbilisi rock festival, leaving behind "Aquarium" And " Favorite". The group leaves the underground and becomes all-Union. Hits "Time Machines" are heard on radio and television. The band receives an offer to record a soundtrack for a film "Soul".
In 1982, during campaigns against amateur ensembles in the newspaper "TVNZ" an article appeared "Blue Bird Stew", sharply criticizing creativity "Time Machines" for which the newspaper's editorial office was inundated with letters from indignant fans. During this period, the group leaves Podgorodetsky, and are included in its composition Sergey Ryzhenko And Alexander Zaitsev.
1983 – a time of temporary creative lull "Time Machines".
Until 1985 concerts "Time Machines" in Moscow it is banned, it is actually not shown on television, not a single official album has been released. Nevertheless, the group's songs are very popular. They are distributed on magnetic recordings. Also "Time Machine" performs a song for the animated series “Monkeys”, records soundtracks for films "Speed", “The Mystery of the Blackbirds.”
In 1987, the first official album was released "Time Machines" entitled "Good morning." Andrey Makarevich starring in a virtually autobiographical film "Start from the beginning". The group actively takes part in various music television shows: “Cheerful guys”, “Song-86”, “Musical ring”.
Albums released in 1988 "Rivers and Bridges" And "Ten years later." The group goes on its first foreign tour ( Bulgaria, Canada, USA, Spain, Greece).
In 1989 " Time Machine" gives a grand concert in Luzhniki, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the group. Former and present members of the band performed at the concert. The year 89 was also marked by the release of his first solo album Andrey Makarevich “Songs with guitar”.
In 1990 "Car" performs "New Year's song" in "Blue Light" Returning to the group Margulis and Podgorodetsky. "Time Machine" recording an album "In the Circle of Light" in the studio "Synthesis Records".
In 1991, after cessation of activity Rosconcert, "Time Machine" becomes an independent team. All group members take part in the defense White House during the putsch.
During the 90s, the group released 7 albums, including “Freelance Commander of the Earth”, “Breaking Away”, “Cardboard Wings of Love”. A hit like this appears “One day the world will bend under us”, for which a video clip is being filmed.
During this period, the group celebrated two anniversaries: the 25th anniversary (1994), marked by a grand concert at Red Square in front of an audience of 300,000 people, as well as the 30th anniversary (1999) - the concert takes place in SC "Olympic".
In 1999, the keyboard player was fired from the group. Peter Podgorodetsky, and a singer is invited to take his place Andrey Derzhavin.
In 2000, a joint tour with the group began. "Sunday", named "50 years for two". From the same year "Time Machine" becomes a regular participant in the annual rock festival "Wings".
Since 2001 "Time Machine–21 century" is registered as an open joint stock company, and the group name becomes a trademark. Albums released from 2004 to 2009 "Mechanically", "Time Machine"(Studio " Abbey Road").
In 2009, eau de toilette was released. "Time Machine", presented by the group at the exhibition InterCHARM 2009. The band celebrates its 40th anniversary by going on a 40-city tour, ending with a final concert in SC "Olympic".
2010 was marked by performances at festivals "Rock over the Volga" And "Invasion".
Current group members:
- Andrey Makarevich– main vocals, guitars, songwriter (since 1969)
- Alexander Kutikov– bass guitar, guitars, vocals, songwriter (1971–1975, since 1979)
- Evgeny Margulis– guitars, bass guitar, vocals, songwriter (1975–1979, since 1989)
- Valery Efremov– drums, percussion (since 1979)
- Andrey Derzhavin– keyboards, vocals, songwriter (since 2000)
Discography
Studio albums:
- 2007 – Time Machine
- 2004 – Automatically
- 2001 – The place where the light is
- 1999 – Clocks and signs
- 1997 – Breaking away
- 1996 – Cardboard Wings of Love
- 1993 – Freelance Earth commander
- 1992 – It was so long ago... (1978 recording)
- 1991 – Slow Good Music
- 1989 – In the circle of light
- 1987 – Rivers and Bridges
Live albums:
- 2010 – Day 14810th
- 2005 – Kremlin Rocks!
- 2001 – Time Machine and Resurrection. 50 for two
- 2000 – XXX years of the Time Machine
- 2000 – The Little Prince (recorded 1979-1980)
- 1994 – Unplugged
- 1991 – Time Machine – XX!
Collections:
- 2010 – Typescript
- 2009 – Don’t park cars
- 2006 – Time Machine. Part 1
- 2004 – Unreleased. Part 2
- 2001 – Best songs 1989–2000
- 1998 – The Best (Supplement to Stereo & Video magazine)
- 1996 – Unreleased
- 1996 – Megamix
- 1996 – Who did you want to surprise?
- 1993 – Best songs 1979–1985
- 1987 – Ten years later
- 1986 – Good time
Other notable recordings and works:
- 2007 – Old Days (Compilation of rare songs 1973-2005)
- 2005 – Recorded on TV (recorded in 1975)
- 1999 – Unreleased. Part 2
- 1997 – Turn (1980 recording)
- 1985 – Fish in a jar
- 1984 – Strangers among strangers
- 1982 – Running in circles
- 1982 – Failed concert
- 1982 – Fortune Hunters
- 1981 – Moscow – Leningrad
- 1979 – Time Machine – 79
- 1978 – Birthday
Filmography:
- House of the Sun (2010)
- Loser
- Election Day (2007)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (2006) – cartoon, dubbing
- Dancer (2004)
- Thieves in law (1988)
- Captain of the Pilgrim (1986)
- Bartender from The Golden Anchor (1986)
- Start Over (1986)
- Breakthrough (1986)
- The Mystery of the Blackbirds (1983)
- Speed, dir. D. Svetozarov (1983)
- Monkeys – animated series (1983)
- Soul (1981)
- Six Letters on Beat (1976)
- Afonya (1975)
History of the group's creation
Moscow schoolboy Andrei Makarevich became interested in music as a teenager and already at the age of fifteen he organized his first band, “The Kids,” which, in addition to him, included Misha Yashin, Larisa Kashperko and Nina Baranova. At first, the guys sang in English, performing hits by popular Western artists at amateur performances and school discos. 
In 1968, Andrei first heard the Beatles, whose work completely changed his mind. The example of the Fab Four, as well as a joint performance at a school concert with VIA Atlanta, inspired young Makarevich to create the rock band Time Machines. In it, by analogy with the Beatles, there was no longer a place for girls: Andrei sang and played the guitar, Pasha Rubin and Igor Mazaev became bass players, Yura Borzov sat on the drums, Sasha Ivanov played rhythm guitar, the keys were entrusted Seryozha Kawagoe. The latter’s parents worked at the embassy, lived and worked in Japan for a long time and acquired high-quality musical equipment, which qualitatively improved the sound of the newly formed group.
At first, disagreements often arose among the members of the group regarding the musical material: Makarevich insisted on the original repertoire, the rest of the guys tried to imitate the Beatles. Because of this, there was even a split in the group, and Mazaev, Borzov and Kawagoe made an attempt to create their own team, which was unsuccessful. Time Machines reunited again, and soon the first album, consisting of eleven English-language songs, was recorded on a home tape recorder. Unfortunately, this material has not survived, which Makarevich does not regret at all, calling it “monstrous.”
By this time, the guys had graduated from school and were thinking about continuing their education. Not everyone managed to combine university studies with music, and Rubin and Ivanov left the group. Makarevich and Borzov entered the capital's architectural institute, where they met Alexei Romanov and Alexander Kutikov. The guys began performing together in the institute rock band and gave concerts at the Energetik Palace of Culture.
Soon Kutikov replaced Mazaev, who had gone into the army, and Maxim Kapitanovsky took the place of the drummer. A year later, he also went to serve in the Armed Forces, and Kawagoe himself sat down at the drums.
The main stages of creativity
This trio remained the main part of the group until the mid-70s, which by that time had already changed its name to “Time Machine” and, thanks to the participation of the Zodiac trio in the recording of the album, even appeared at the Melodiya studio. 
But Rosconcert and the Union of Composers ignored the appearance of a strange group that stood out from the general concept of the Soviet stage, and created all sorts of obstacles for the young musicians. Not everything was going smoothly in the group itself either, and in 1974, due to disagreements with Kawagoe, Kutikov left it. He was replaced by Evgeniy Margulis, a versatile musician with a “blues” voice.
In the same year, the “drivers” were invited to star in Georgy Danelia’s film “Afonya”, and although the episode with their participation was cut out in the final version, the song “You or I” remained in the film, and the name of the group remained in the credits.
In 1975, “Time Machine” was invited to television to record the “Music Kiosk” program. The program never aired, but seven new compositions, recorded in a professional studio, quickly spread throughout the country. When in 1976 the group was invited to perform at a music festival in Tallinn, their songs were already well known to the public, who warmly greeted “Time Machine”. The team won the main prize and met many talented musicians, including Boris Grebenshchikov. He helped organize the “machinists” tour in St. Petersburg, which was a huge success.
Time Machine - Puppets (1977 performance)
But, nevertheless, “cultural” officials continued to persistently ignore their increased popularity, so the group’s touring activities took place in “underground mode.” Makarevich was nervous about this situation, and he tried in every possible way to give the team official status. Andrei even came up with the literary and musical program “The Little Prince,” with which he unsuccessfully tried to get into Rosconcert for several years.
The rest of the group members were quite happy with their “illegal” situation, which did not in any way affect the income from touring activities, so disagreements began again among the musicians. In 1979, Kawagoe and Margulis moved to “Sunday”, Kutikov returned to the group, and after some time Pyotr Podgoretsky joined the team.
In the same year, “Time Machine” received the opportunity to perform from Rosconcert, joining the troupe of the Moscow Comedy Theater. The musicians immediately began creating a new concert program, and a few months later they loudly announced themselves at the prestigious music festival in Tbilisi. From this moment the group's rapid rise to the top of the musical Olympus begins.
Time Machine - Only I Know (1985)
Their hits were played on radio stations, cassettes filled record kiosks, and after participating in the film “Soul,” the band members began to be stopped on the streets. But, despite this, in 1982, the work of “Time Machine” was sharply criticized by officials (“... the rock group declares indifference and hopelessness from the stage and multiplies the records of these dubious declarations,” wrote party critics), and only a wave of people's anger and thousands of fan letters forced the functionaries to retreat.
"In the Nikitsky Botanical Garden." The first clip of “Time Machine”
This dual situation persisted until the mid-1980s. The group actively toured the country and freely performed songs of their own composition. At the same time, she was banned from official performances in Moscow, most of the television programs with the participation of musicians ended up “on the shelf,” and until 1986 not a single professional studio album was published.
With the beginning of Perestroika, the situation changed radically. The team became a participant in the Festival of Youth and Students and went on tour abroad for the first time. The excitement at their concerts was comparable to the height of Beatlemania, when fans were ready to burst into tears from the excess of feelings of their idols. At the end of 1986, the group’s first official album, “In Good Hour” (a compilation of the best songs), was released, and a year later, the first studio album, “Rivers and Bridges,” was released. The musicians became frequent guests on television; not a single popular music and entertainment program of that time could do without their presence.
“Time Machine” celebrated its twentieth anniversary with a large-scale concert in Luzhniki, at which close musician friends and former members of the group performed. The next quarter-century anniversary of the “machinists” was celebrated in the very heart of the capital, on Red Square. The best Russian rock bands were present at the concert, and about 350 thousand people gathered to listen to the musicians.
After 1991, Makarevich began to actively participate in the public life of the country, openly expressing his civic position. The group came out in support of Boris Yeltsin on the barricades of the White House, and in 1996 they supported Boris Nikolayevich in the next presidential election.
Time Machine - My friend plays the blues better than anyone else
At the anniversary concert at the Olimpiyskiy, dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the group, many politicians were present. Among them were Anatoly Chubais, Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Putin, then still in the position of prime minister. Immediately after this large-scale show, Pyotr Podgorodetsky was fired due to excessive addiction to cocaine. Later, he wrote a scandalous book, “A Machine with Jews,” in which he spoke unkindly about his former bandmates.
The last concert in which Podgoretsky took part was a performance in 1999, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the group. In 2000, a concert DVD recorded at this performance was released. The musicians performed 36 of their hits.
Time Machine - The Place Where the Light Is (2001)
In the 2000s, the group consistently delighted fans with new creativity. In 2001, the experimental album “The Place Where the Light” went on sale, in which keyboardist and arranger Andrei Derzhavin, who replaced Podgoretsky, made his debut. He also wrote the lyrics for the song “Wings and Sky,” although he later admitted that it turned out rather weak. In general, the album turned out to be unusual for the group’s work: listeners were treated to a completely new sound quality and a large number of soloists.
The tenth anniversary studio album of “Time Machine”, entitled “Mechanically” (it was invented by 26-year-old Elina Sokolova, who won a naming competition announced by the group), was released in 2004.
The musicians recorded their next album, Time Machine, at Abbey Road Studios in London. The studio employees wanted to send the resulting material to the organizers of the Grammy Awards (in the Foreign Music category), but this required enormous investments from the group itself, and it was impossible to earn several hundred thousand dollars by selling discs in Russia.
The next album, “Do Not Park Cars” (2009), in addition to the group’s new songs, unexpectedly included covers of other artists’ old hits from “Time Machines.” Sergei Chigrakov from “Chizh” sang “Crossroads”, Alexey Kortnev sang “What did you have”, Boris Grebenshchikov - “I am a snake” and “Apocrypha”, Pyotr Mamonov - “Leisure Boogie”, etc.
Discography
- Rivers and Bridges (1987)
- In the Circle of Light (1988)
- Slow Good Music (1991)
- It was so long ago...1978 (1992)
- Freelance commander of the Earth. El Mocambo Blues (1993)
- Cardboard Wings of Love (1996)
- Breaking Away (1997)
- Clocks and Signs (1999)
- The Place Where the Light Is (2001)
- Mechanically (2004)
- Time Machine (2007)
- Don't park cars (2009)
- YOU (2016)
The Time Machine group now
Recently, “Time Machine” has sharply reduced the number of performances and does not often spoil its fans with concerts. Perhaps this is due to Margulis leaving the group and the political statements of the group leader, which disappointed many fans of the group. Thus, in 2014, the anti-militarist Makarevich condemned the annexation of Crimea to Russia, repeatedly participated in anti-government rallies of “white ribbon” democrats, and spoke to Ukrainian military personnel in Slavyansk. The discrepancy in political views also explains the sudden departure from the group of Andrei Derzhavin, who was banned from entering the country by the Ukrainian authorities before his tour in the fall of 2017.Time Machine – Rats (2012)
As for creativity, the group’s last album, “You,” was released in 2016. A new member of the group, guitarist Igor Khomich, took part in the recording of the album.
“It all started on December 11, 1953, when a boy was born into the family of architect Vadim Makarevich, who was named Andrei.
They often played music at home. True, Andrei’s mother, who graduated from music school, rarely sat down to play the instrument - caring for the family, combined with the profession of a doctor, did not leave any free time. My father did not receive any musical education, but he played the piano beautifully, picking out completely different music by ear, including jazz and classical (even technically complex things Rachmaninov). It is no wonder that the boy spent his first musical experiments on the piano keyboard. The debut composition could be called “Thunderstorm”, where “lightning” was performed on high notes, and “thunder” on bass. I tried to select some melodies, I really liked the song from the movie “The Last Inch”, so much that I begged my father to teach me how to play it. But the relationship with the piano teacher did not work out. She demanded that Andrei become friends with notes, and for him the notes caused persistent disgust. Soon the teacher abandoned her classes, and the boy was sent to a state music school. However, even there he lasted no more than two years, and this was the end of the first stage of playing music.
Already in the seventh grade, Andrei’s friend Slava Motovilov, using only three chords, played him some song Vysotsky on a seven-string guitar. The above chords were immediately learned by Andrey, and... soon (in 1968) the very first ensemble appeared. To introduce it, let’s use a quote from the book of the hero of our story: “It was a strange ensemble. Two girls (history has preserved their names: Larisa Kashperko and Nina Baranova), me and Misha Yashin “played” some tourist songs Vizbora. Misha usually brought them, I didn’t even know about those songs...”
At school No. 19, where Andrei studied, there was another ensemble of children a year older. It was a real band - three electric guitars and drums - and they played better. One day, the Atlanta group, led by Alik Sikorsky, came to a New Year's Eve party. They had their own powerful equipment, and the impressions of their performance were very vivid. Moreover, during the intermission, the Atlanteans allowed them to play their instruments, and Sikorsky himself played along on the bass guitar. In his book “Everything is very simple” (Radio and Communication Publishing House, 1991), quotes from which we will often use, Andrey Makarevich stated: “I think we played terribly. Our classmates looked at us sympathetically. But a life choice was made... To what extent fate depends on some, in general, little things. Alik could not have let us play...”
One day Andrei returned from school at a time when his father was copying the Beatles album “Hard day's night” taken from a neighbor onto a tape recorder. The teenager had heard tiny fragments of Beatles music before, but this time the sensations were different. “There was a feeling that all my previous life I had been wearing cotton wool in my ears, and then it was suddenly taken out,”- the physiological process that happened then with Andrei is understandable to all music lovers who lived at that time. “New music” burst into life, shifting the usual guidelines and concepts, opening up another, bright and colorful world. The music of the Beatles was listened to day and night long, the songs were “filmed” down to the smallest detail and fanatically unlearned. A circle of Beatlemaniac friends appeared.
Two new students who had just appeared in the class successfully fit into it: Yura Borzov and Igor Mazaev. Each of them initially had musical abilities, and their great love for the music of the Beatles and the desire to play something similar greatly enhanced their overall creative potential.
The idea of creating a group was in the air, and soon a group appeared, which, with some stretching, can be called the first, short-lived, composition of the subsequently legendary group: Andrey Makarevich - guitar, vocals; Alexander Ivanov - rhythm guitar; Pavel Ruben - bass guitar; Igor Mazaev - piano; Yuri Borzov - drums. The repertoire consisted of twelve English-language (like the Beatles!) compositions composed by Andrey. And this group was called “Mashin” s time." Yes, yes, exactly “machines”, and this was facilitated by the fact that the plural in the name was then generally accepted. "Doors", "Rolling Stones", and, of course, "Beatles", "Slavs", "Falcons", "Buffoons"- the series of names on both sides of the Iron Curtain can be continued endlessly. The struggle for the plural continued until 1973, when the ensemble’s fans, who did not want to accept it, won an unconditional victory...
Musical instruments deserve a separate description. By that time, Andrei had already managed to “promote” his parents for a thirty-five-ruble guitar “made in USSR” (“made in the USSR”), the role of the bass was played by a similar instrument with four cello strings, but the situation with drums was much worse. The pioneer drum and cymbal from the hat were no longer satisfying, and the situation could have become hopeless, when suddenly we learned that the factory bosses of the school had a decommissioned drum kit gathering dust. It is hardly possible to feel what a triumph it was for the “machinists” to carry the drums into the school building with their own hands. And when, at the group’s first concert, the school caretaker with a sweeping gesture handed out the speakers from the school’s KINAP film installation, there was no limit to the jubilation. It seemed that such a powerful (about thirty watts) sound was hitting me in the back, as if pushing me to future victories.
To this first performance of theirs, Yura Borzov invited his friend Sergei Kawagoe, who studied at school No. 20 near Smolenskaya Square. Among themselves they called him Japanese, although he was only half Japanese. His father visited his homeland, the land of the rising sun, as a result of which his son acquired signature musical instruments. The Japanese liked the concert, and a couple of days later he stopped by Andrey, armed with two Japanese electric guitars and a guitar combo. (Amplifier and speaker combined in a single housing). The teenagers mumbled until the night, and the next morning the group began rehearsing with a new lineup - with Kawagoe, who had not yet played anything. However, soon Japanese relatives sent Sergei a real electric organ with a speaker, and this event led to Kawagoe’s reincarnation as a keyboard player.
Some time later, the group recorded their first album, Time Machines, which consisted of eleven English-language compositions and was recorded at home using a household tape recorder. The band members' passion for the work of the Beatles predetermined the aim: the recording hand-made reflected the construction of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. Of course, this was still a group game, so collectors are unlikely to look for this rarity: the film, “fortunately,” was lost. But games are games, and for their performance at school No. 4, “Time Machines” receive their first fee in the amount of 40 rubles, which almost causes a quarrel - an idealist Makarevich believed that “taking money for art is shameful.” Only the argument of his comrades about the need to purchase equipment was able to shake his position, and the money migrated to the “party treasury.”
Troegubov V., Time Machine, in Sat.: Legends of Russian Rock, M., “Lean”, 1999, p. 34-37.
Text source - Wikipedia
The beginning of the group's biography " Time Machine". 1968 - spring 1970.
School No. 19 (named after Belinsky) Moscow, Kadashevsky 1st lane, 3a. The group “Time Machine” was formed here. The predecessor of “Time Machine” was a group called “The Kids”, formed at the 19th Moscow school in 1968. It included:
Andrey Makarevich - guitar
Mikhail Yashin (son of the poet and writer Alexander Yashin) - guitar
Larisa Kashperko - vocals
Nina Baranova - vocals
The group sang Anglo-American folk songs and performed at school functions. The recordings have not survived; only one of the songs from that period can be heard on the “Unreleased” disc - this song “This Happened to Me,” which sang about unfulfilled love and separation. The group gave concerts in Moscow schools, where they managed to reach an agreement, but were not particularly successful, although they often performed at school amateur performances.
The turning point, according to Makarevich’s recollections, was the day when VIA “Atlanta” came to school with a concert, whose director Alexander Sikorsky allowed the young musicians to play a couple of songs on their equipment during the 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 high school students from two Moscow schools, called “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 from 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 at neighboring school No. 20 Sergei Kawagoe (keyboards).
After the formation of the group, an internal conflict immediately occurs over the repertoire: the majority wants to sing Beatles songs, Makarevich insists on performing lesser-known Western material, citing the fact that the Beatles sing too well and unprofessional imitation of them would look pathetic. The group splits, Kawagoe, Borzov and Mazaev try to organize a group at school No. 20, but the attempt is unsuccessful and soon the Time Machines reunite.
The very first tape recording was made with this lineup, consisting of eleven English-language songs written by the group members. At concerts, the group performs cover versions of songs by English and American groups and their own songs in English, written in imitation, but very quickly their own songs in Russian appear in the repertoire, the lyrics for which Makarevich writes. The style of the group was greatly influenced by the principles of the hippie movement, which became popular among part of the Soviet youth in the early 1970s.
Participants remaining after graduation (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 rock band. On March 8, 1971, a concert of the group was held at the Moscow Architectural Institute, at which a meeting between Kutikov, who was invited there, and Makarevich took place.
In 1971-v 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 invited Alexander Kutikov to take the place of Mazaev, who was drafted into the army (the first concert with his participation took place on November 3, 1971), then, at Kutikov’s suggestion, Max Kapitanovsky, who had previously played in the group “Second Wind,” sat down at the drums instead of Borzov, who went to the group of Alexei Romanov. In 1972, Kapitanovsky was also drafted into the army, and Sergei Kawagoe, in order not to look for a new person in the group, moved to drums. Despite his complete unfamiliarity with drums, he learns to play very quickly and remains the band's drummer until 1979. Until the mid-1970s, the main three musicians remained Makarevich (guitar, vocals), Kutikov (bass guitar) and Kawagoe (drums); the remaining 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, since due to the busyness of Kawagoe, who decided to enroll at Moscow State University, “Machines” still cannot perform in full force at this time. The group is going to the Black Sea to perform for vacationers at the international student camp “Burevestnik-2”. At the concerts, hits of Western groups are mainly performed one-on-one (Sergei Grachev sings), but part of the program is devoted to songs from the repertoire of Time Machines performed by Makarevich. Upon returning from the south, joint performances continue for some time, but the alliance soon disintegrates. For some time after the collapse of “Machines”, the drummer of “Best Years” Yuri Fokin stayed and for about another year Igor Saulsky periodically played keyboards.
In 1973, under pressure from the public, the name of the group changed to the singular - “Time Machine”. For some time, Alexey 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. The Melodiya company is releasing 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 official annals. As Makarevich wrote, “... even such a trifle helped us to exist: in the eyes of any official idiot, an ensemble that had a record is no longer just hippies from the gateway.”
From the autumn of 1973 to the beginning of 1975, the group went through a “time of troubles”, performed on dance floors and sessions, played “for board and shelter” in southern resorts and often changed its lineup. In a year and a half, at least 15 musicians passed through the group.
In the fall of 1974, under a formal pretext, Makarevich was expelled from the institute and he got a job as an architect at the State Institute for the Design of Theaters and Entertainment Facilities (Giprotheatr). 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 dance group. 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, it replaced the group's studio. In the final version of the film, almost all the footage from “The Time Machine” is 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 returned, but in the summer of 1975 he again went to VIA at the Tula State Philharmonic. Kawagoe and Makarevich quickly find guitarist Evgeni Margulis, who has a characteristic “blues” voice. Makarevich immediately invites 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 masters his new instrument; Since then, Makarevich has played exclusively lead guitar. In the group, Margulis begins to write and perform songs with a blues slant.
Over the next four years, the trio Makarevich - Kawagoe - Margulis became the core of the group, periodically supplemented by one or two session musicians. In 1975, Eleonora Belyaeva invites “Time Machine” to sign up for TV at the “Music Kiosk”. Over 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 “Tallinn Youth Songs-76” festival in Estonia, where they are surprised to learn that the “Machine” songs 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 in Leningrad begin. Yuri Ilchenko (formerly the lead singer of the Leningrad group “Myths”) joins the group for six months. After his departure, the group played as three members (Makarevich, Margulis and Kawagoe), and in 1977 they performed again in Tallinn, although 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 then responsible for the sound. In March 1978, the “Birthday” magnetic album, compiled by Andrei Tropillo from individual recordings, was released. He took the recordings that Makarevich brought (Tropillo was then conducting underground sessions) and replicated this tape in the amount of 200 pieces. In the spring of 1978, Artemy Troitsky takes “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, completely stands out from the general range of “politically reliable” VIAs that performed there.
In the summer of 1978, the “engineers” learned that Kutikov, who worked in the speech studio of GITIS, found an opportunity to organize a recording of the group “Leap Summer” (where he was then playing) there during non-working hours. Makarevich asks Kutikov to help “Machine” sign up: he agrees. In about two weeks, the group records 24 songs at night, which are currently performed at concerts. The recording used overdubbing and two tape recorders with poorly tuned paths; the sound of the guitars and the rhythm of the section against the background of the voice turned out to be “dull.” The recording is immediately copied, it is distributed throughout the country (as Makarevich claims - without the knowledge or consent of the group) and brings the group wide fame. The original version of the recording was lost; in 1992, from a copy kept by Gradsky, an album entitled “It Was So Long Ago…” was digitized and published. Subsequently, the existence of a higher-quality 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 “Time Machine” songs, made in the same studio, but at a different time, differing in technical features.
In the fall of 1978, the group received a call from the then unknown Hovhannes Melik-Pashayev and offered to perform for a lot of money in a construction team in Pechora, at the same time offering himself as a keyboard player. Performances in “field” conditions (in a forest clearing and in a small rural club) bring more than decent income, and Pashayev becomes established in the group, working at concerts as a sound engineer, but mainly serving as the group’s administrator. Using his rich connections, he organizes performances. Melik-Pashayev’s commercial activities are bearing fruit: according to the memoirs of Sergei Kawagoe, in the last year of their underground existence, the musicians earned more than a thousand rubles a month from concerts each (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 group parted ways with the brass section. Alexander Voronov appears, playing a synthesizer of his own making, but does not fit into the team and soon leaves. On November 28, 1978, the group took part in the opening of the First Rock Music Festival “Chernogolovka-78”. The first place was shared by “Time Machine” and “Magnetic Band”, the second place was taken by “Leap Summer”. The most interesting thing is that “Time Machine” and “Magnetic Band” will again share 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-Exupéry, which was a “Time Machine” concert, 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 performed. Subsequently, from 1979 to 1981, the program changed, differing in composition, arrangements, and new prose and poetic fragments were included, including those by other authors. The texts were first read by Andrei Makarevich, and in February 1979, Alexander Butuzov (“Bassoon”) was invited specifically to perform the literary part of the program as a reader in the group.
In February 1979, Andrei Tropillo recorded “The Little Prince” during one of the “Time Machine” trips to Leningrad and distributed reels of the recording. This recording of "The Little Prince" is the only known recording of the program in its early version and with the old composition of the group. 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” talks about the creative crisis and personal conflict between him and Sergei Kawagoe. According to Podgorodetsky (he came to the group later and was not a personal witness to the events), there was a major scandal related to financial issues, in addition, Kawagoe and Margulis were against Makarevich’s desire to bring the group from the underground to the professional stage. The final split of the group occurs after a concert organized by Makarevich, despite the active reluctance of Kawagoe, in the basement of the newly formed City Committee of Graphic Artists - a committee of avant-garde artists on Malaya Gruzinskaya. According to Makarevich, the concert is going disgustingly (his colleagues specify in their memoirs that Kawagoe, Margulis and Melik-Pashayev clearly had too much alcohol before the concert and openly fooled around on stage). That 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 Kawagoe” with him. Margulis, whom Makarevich was counting on very much, leaves with Kawagoe. In “Time Machine” with Makarevich, the only musician, there remain Melik-Pashayev, Butuzov and technicians Korotkin and Zaborovsky.
In May 1979, Kutikov, who was then playing in “Leap Summer,” invites Makarevich to recreate “The Time Machine” with him and “Leap Summer” drummer Valery Efremov. Pyotr Podgorodetsky, who had recently been demobilized from the army, was invited to take the place of the keyboard player; a professional pianist, he makes a huge impression on Makarevich with his fantastic performance and ability to play anything. Kutikov and Podgorodetsky knew each other before “Machina”, since 2 weeks before arriving at “Machina” he was taken into the “Leap Summer” team. With this composition, the group is rehearsing a program that includes new songs “Right”, “Whom 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 slant, which he performs himself.
By the end of 1979, pressure from party bodies and the police made “underground” concert activity increasingly difficult. A “curator” from the culture department of the city committee of the CPSU of Moscow is specially assigned to the group. Makarevich is hatching the idea of leaving the underground and including the group in one of the state creative associations. Negotiations are underway, including with the Taganka Theater. As a result, the group received an offer from 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 care, 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 bypass the ban on private concerts (according to Makarevich: “you could calmly practice your music and your songs, and then the session became not a criminal underground event, but a completely a legal creative meeting with artists of a famous theater"). The theater, having received the opportunity to write on posters “ featuring the group Time Machine", sharply increases fees.
1980s: work at Rosconcert.
The work of “Time Machine” as part of the theater lasts only a few months. In January 1980, the management of Rosconcert decides that it is more profitable to use the group for its intended purpose, and offers to present its own concert program. The concert program in one department is passed by the artistic council and in the spring of 1980, “Time Machine” receives the status of an independent ensemble at Rosconcert and begins its own touring activities. Hovhannes Melik-Pashayev officially becomes the “artistic director” of the group, and Andrei Makarevich is indicated in small print on the posters as the “musical director.”
Andrei Makarevich receives a certificate from Yuri Sergeevich Saulsky at the Tbilisi-80 festival. In the new composition, the group triumphantly debuted on March 8, 1980 at the Tbilisi Rock Festival of 1980, where it received first prize for the songs “Snow” and “Crystal City”, ahead of “Autograph” and "Aquarium".
The popularity of the group emerges from the underground and turns into an all-Union one. “The Time Machine” is constantly played on the radio, the songs “Turn”, “Candle”, “Three Windows” become popular. “Turn” topped the “Sound Track” hit parade of “Moskovsky Komsomolets” for 18 months (the only officially existing Soviet hit parade at that time). Clandestine magnetic albums are sold in large quantities, one of the sources of which is the studio recording of “The Time Machine” - “Moscow - Leningrad”, made semi-underground 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 arriving at the box office and were instantly sold out. However, on the eve of the first concert, an official from the CPSU Central Committee, Ivanov, arrives to approve the program; on his instructions, the program is not accepted, concerts are cancelled. Until 1981, the group continued to use literary fragments at concerts, read between songs, but in the fall Butuzov was fired from the group and this practice ceased. The negative reaction of the Central Committee led to the fact that “Time Machine” was not allowed to perform concerts in Moscow at all until 1986. During these six years, “Machine” manages to tour almost the entire Soviet Union.
In 1969, on the initiative of Sergei Sirovich Kawagoe, a new musical group was created, performing songs in the then popular genres - rock, rock and roll and art songs. The final name of the group – “Time Machine” – replaced the original version “Time Machines”.
History of creation and composition
At the turn of the 1960-1970s of the 20th century, youth and student groups were gaining popularity in the USSR, imitating, as a rule, British and other legendary musicians in their work. Following this trend, in 1968 in Moscow, students from school No. 19 with in-depth study of the English language created a group that included four high school students: Andrei Makarevich, Mikhail Yashin, Larisa Kashperko and Nina Baranova. The girls sang, and the guys accompanied them on guitars.
The repertoire of young people who were fluent in English consisted of famous foreign songs, with which they performed in the capital’s schools and youth clubs under the name “The Kids.”
One day, at the school where the boys studied, there was a performance by VIA from Leningrad “Atlanta”. The group had at its disposal high-quality, high-quality equipment and a bass guitar, which was then a curiosity. During the break at Atlantov, Andrei Makarevich and his comrades performed several of their own musical works.
In 1969, the original composition of “Time Machine” was organized, which included Andrei Makarevich, Yuri Borzov, Igor Mazaev, Pavel Rubin, Alexander Ivanov and Sergei Kawagoe. The author of the name of the group, which then sounded “Time Machines”, was Yuri Ivanovich Borzov, and Sergei initiated the creation of an exclusively male group - so Andrei Makarevich turned out to be the permanent vocalist.
According to the guys, the appearance of Kawagoe in Time Machines helped them achieve success. Sergei, whose parents lived in Japan, had real electric guitars, which were considered scarce in those days in the Soviet Union, and even a small amplifier. This is how the sound of TimeMachines songs stood out from other musical groups.
Conflicts began to arise in the men's group regarding the choice of repertoire: Sergei and Yuri wanted to play the Beatles, but Makarevich insisted on choosing compositions by less famous authors. Andrey argued his position by saying that they still wouldn’t be able to sing better than the Fab Four, and “Time Machines” would have a “pale look.”
As a result of the dispute, the team split: Borzov, Kawagoe and Mazaev left Time Machines and began work under the name “Durapon Steam Engines”, but did not achieve success, and therefore returned to Time Machines.
After the release of the debut album, guitarists Pavel Rubin and Alexander Ivanov left the group. By that time, the guys had completed secondary education and were no longer seriously thinking about music, but about getting a higher education. Yuri and Andrey entered the architectural institute in Moscow, where they met Alexey Romanov (now performing at) and Alexander Kutikov.
The latter soon replaced Mazaev, who was drafted into the armed forces, as part of Time Machines, and Borzov went to the group of Alexei Romanov. The drummer was the screenwriter and writer Maxim Kapitanovsky, who a year later also left to serve in the armed forces of the USSR.
At the same time, Sergei Kawagoe began preparing for entrance exams at Moscow State University, which is why he regularly missed rehearsals and canceled performances, while Makarevich and Kutikov worked in the “Best Years” group. Having reunited in 1973, the guys changed the name to a more familiar one to the ears of Soviet people - “Time Machine”, and a year later Alexey Romanov became a vocalist together with Makarevich.
At the same time, Kutikov left the band and was replaced by Kutikov, who played the bass guitar. 5 years after the conflict related to the general concept, the composition of “Time Machine” changed again: Makarevich remained the vocalist, and Alexander Kutikov, Valery Efremov and Pyotr Podgorodetsky accompanied him. In 1999, Podgorodetsky was fired due to problems with drugs and violations of discipline, and was replaced by.
Music
The debut album of the group, then working under the name “TimeMachines”, was released in 1969 and bore a similar name. It included 11 English-language songs that were significantly reminiscent of the work of The Beatles. The record was recorded at home: vocalist Makarevich stood in the center of the room with a reel-to-reel tape recorder with a recording function and a microphone, and musicians were located around the perimeter of the room. The guys distributed the reel with the recorded songs among friends and acquaintances.
Group "Time Machine" The official release never took place, but now the guys occasionally perform a composition from Time Machines called “This Happened to Me.” It was also included in the album “Unreleased”, released in 1996.
By 1973, the structure of the group had undergone significant changes, and the name began to sound like “Time Machine,” but the musicians had to wait a long time for formal performances and people’s love. In 1973, the collection “Melody” was released, where “Time Machine” was included in the musical accompaniment.
"Time Machine" - "One day the world will bend under us"The period 1973-1975 became the most difficult in the history of the group: there were practically no performances, the guys often sang for room and board, more than once they had to look for a new base for rehearsals, and the leader of the Time Machine was expelled from the university, and he got a job at Giprotheatr. At the same time, the guys were offered to play a number of compositions in the film “Afonya”, for which they received a decent fee. However, in the final version of the film, only one song remained, “You or I,” but their name appeared in the credits.
In 1974, “Time Machine” recorded the composition “Who is to Blame,” written by Alexei Romanov, which, unfortunately, was perceived by critics as dissident. Although, according to the author, the composition did not carry any hidden meaning, much less a political background.
"Time Machine" - "The Little Prince"In 1976, the group performed at the Tallinn Youth Songs music festival, and soon their songs were sung in all corners of the Soviet Union. But 2 years later, a scandalous incident occurred: at a famous music festival, the group was called politically unreliable, and the guys were suspended from further concerts.
Since then, the musicians' performances have become illegal, but, according to Kawagoe, they brought in good income. However, Andrei Makarevich always sought to bring the group to the all-Russian stage from closed performances in semi-basements, which caused another conflict with Sergei Kawagoe.
"Time Machine" - "For those at sea"Having changed the composition of the group, Makarevich, with the help of a specially appointed party curator, still managed to bring “The Time Machine” to the stage, and by the beginning of the 1980s the group was already performing fully officially. At the concerts, held in crowded halls, the hits “Turn”, “Candle” and others were played, which do not lose popularity today.
Soon, the group again received an unpleasant surprise from the USSR authorities: the musicians’ work was sharply criticized by officials, but, to everyone’s surprise, fans defended the right of “Time Machine” to carry out further concert activities - 250 thousand letters from fans came to the editorial office of Komsomolskaya Pravda. in support of musicians.
"Time Machine" - "The years fly by like an arrow"With the beginning of the collapse of the USSR, political pressure on musicians weakened significantly; they performed freely at the capital’s concert venues, released new albums, no longer fearing political censorship. In 1986, the group's first foreign performance took place at a music festival in Japan.
In 1986, the “first real album” of “Time Machine” was released. As indicated on the band's official website, it was woven from concert soundtracks, and the musicians themselves did not take part in the recording. But even in this form, the presentation of the album “In Good Hour” became a big step forward for the team.
"Time Machine" - "Good Hour"And already in 1988, “Time Machine” was recognized as the group of the year. In the early 1990s, the lineup underwent changes again: Zaitsev left the team due to problems with alcohol and drugs, but Margulis returned.
In 1991, on the initiative of Makarevich, the guys performed as part of a political action organized to support. The apogee of popularity was the 8-hour “Time Machine” concert on Red Square in Moscow, which attracted about 300 thousand fans. And in December 1999, the “Time Machine” concert was attended by such outstanding politicians as and also, who then held the position of prime minister.
"Time Machine" - "The World Abandoned by God"Already in the 2000s, “Time Machine” entered the top ten most popular Russian rock bands according to Komsomolskaya Pravda, and the composition “Bonfire” was included in the hundred best songs of Russian rock in the 20th century according to Nashe Radio. In 2010, the leader of the group became famous for his literary activities, publishing 3 books.
The Time Machine logo is a gear with a peace symbol inside. The symbolism was depicted on the cover of the album “Mechanically”. Today, T-shirts, baseball caps and scarves with the team’s logo are produced.
Logo of the group "Time Machine" In the summer of 2012, Margulis, citing a desire to work on a solo project, left the Time Machine, nevertheless remaining on friendly terms with the musicians. And in February 2015, information appeared in the media about a new discord in the group related to the political situation in neighboring Ukraine. True, rumors that the team broke up were not confirmed. However, Andrei Derzhavin did not take part in the “Time Machine” tour of Ukraine.
The fuss arose because of Andrei Makarevich’s position regarding the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Makarevich took the side of the latter, thereby provoking persecution on an unprecedented scale, including a boycott and disruption of speeches, as well as a fake message about his death. The artist himself added fuel to the fire; in the summer of 2015 he recorded the track “My former brothers became worms.” At the same time, the musician categorically denies the political context of the composition.
"Andrey Makarevich" - "People are worms"Despite this, in September 2015, group leader Andrei Makarevich told reporters that the group intended to unite again with the “golden” lineup to record a new album. But, unfortunately for the fans, this did not happen. After the ill-fated song, rumors appeared that Makarevich had a conflict with Margulis. But soon Evgeniy said that he had not quarreled with Andrei Vadimovich, but his work is so far from him that he is not ready to comment on it.
"Time Machine" now
2017 was marked not only by long tours, but also, again, by politically motivated scandals. So Andrei Derzhavin supported the official position of the Kremlin on Crimea, and therefore ended up on the list of artists who are prohibited from entering Ukraine. Makarevich himself considers the annexation of Crimea an annexation, which he has repeatedly expressed in his interviews.
In Ukraine, “Time Machine” toured with an incomplete lineup At the same time, the musicians held a number of concerts in Ukrainian cities, and its leader Andrei Makarevich refused to comment on the difference in political views of the musicians. By the way, the group’s producer Vladimir Borisovich Sapunov also supported the position of the Russian Federation. However, judging by the questionnaires and photos on the Time Machine website, there were no personnel changes in connection with the political worldview at that time.
This continued until the fall of 2017. Director and producer Vladimir Sapunov was fired from his post after 23 years of work in the team. He explained that they had a conversation with Andrei Makarevich, in which he told him: “We are no longer working with you.” At the same time, Sapunov noted that he was grateful to the team; working with him, he managed to forget about his illness and feel happy. At the same time, news appeared on the Internet that Makarevich also fired Derzhavin, but this information was not confirmed at that time.
On May 5, 2018, Sapunov died due to a long illness; the ex-director of the Time Machine was diagnosed with oncology.
At the beginning of 2018, it became known that Andrei Derzhavin had left the group, and since the topic had been discussed in the media for a long time, this news did not surprise fans. In an interview that the musician gave in March, he said that the reason for leaving was the intersection of tour schedules. The fact is that Derzhavin decided to revive his team - the legendary group of the 90s “Stalker”.
As a result, in 2018, three members remained in the “Time Machine” group - Makarevich, Kutikov and Efremov. One way or another, the musicians continue to tour. In 2018, the group will perform at the Khmelnov Fest music festival in Minsk. Also, for the first time in 5 years, they will visit Tyumen, where they will give the “Be Yourself” concert at the Philharmonic.
And in November 2018, their participation in the play “Quartet I” is planned. Previously, Andrei Makarevich took part in “Letters and Songs...” more than once, but solo. This time the entire cast will appear on the theater stage.
In 2019 the group turns 50 years old. In honor of the anniversary, the musicians decided to invite famous Russian directors to film the film almanac “The Machine [out of] Time.” It will consist of short stories-sketches, united by one theme: the song “Time Machines”.
Discography
- 1986 – “Good Hour”
- 1987 – “Ten Years Later”
- 1987 - “Rivers and Bridges”
- 1988 - “In the Circle of Light”
- 1991 - “Slow Good Music”
- 1992 - “It was so long ago...1978”
- 1993 - “Freelance commander of the Earth. Blues of El Mocambo"
- 1996 - “Cardboard Wings of Love”
- 1997 - “Breaking Away”
- 1999 - “Clocks and Signs”
- 2001 - “The Place Where the Light”
- 2004 - “Mechanically”
- 2007 - “TimeMachine”
- 2009 - “Do not park cars”
- 2016 - “YOU”
Clips
- 1983 - “In the Nikitsky Botanical Garden”
- 1986 - “Good Hour”
- 1988 - “Heroes of Yesterday”
- 1988 - “All I Can Say is Hello”
- 1989 - “Sea Law”
- 1991 - “She wants (Get out of the USSR)”
- 1993 - “My friend plays the blues better than anyone else”
- 1996 - “Turn”
- 1997 - “He was older than her”
- 1997 - “One day the world will bend under us”
- 1999 - “The era of great dislike”
- 2001 - “The Place Where the Light”
- 2012 - “Rats”
- 2016 - “Once Upon a Time”
- 2017 - “Sing”