Reaching for the stars: Viktor Tsoi died 35 years ago
Today, there will be many flowers in one of the alleys on Arbat, many songs will be played, and there will also be conversations about who the Russian rock culture has lost. Viktor Tsoi, as usual, looks at a portrait of passing Muscovites from the wall — 35 years ago, on August 15, 1990, he died in a car accident and forever remained a symbol of Soviet rock. About how the chieftain, who was eternally alive, with a pack of cigarettes in his pocket, did not miss, is in the Izvestia article.
Should he live in the city or in the villages
Engineer Robert Maksimovich and physical education teacher Valentina Vasilyevna did not suspect that on June 21, 1962, a future rock musician, a star named Viktor and surnamed Tsoi, was born in their small Leningrad family.
Moscow's Victory Park, a secondary art school, the first guitar chords shown to him by his father, "Vasya loves disco" and "Idiot", the Leningrad Art School, a woodcarver, netsuke figurines, ashtrays — Viktor Tsoi's life resembled a kaleidoscope that walked through intelligent Leningrad and subtly acute Korean narratives, and was combined in two hypostases — Russian and Oriental.
It became clear that the young man Viktor Tsoi, who had been creating art since childhood, would not be an easy musician either.
Announcer and voice actor Sergey Syrov emphasizes that for his time Viktor Tsoi was a bright, freedom-loving and independent personality.
— That's how he stood out from the crowd. He couldn't be forced to go with the flow. He did not work in the traditional five/two job, did not serve in the army, did not look back at public opinion and the will of the party, but did only what he liked," Syrov told Izvestia.
His friends are always marching through life.
The name of the Kino group, familiar to the Russian listener, did not appear immediately. It was preceded by "Garin and the Hyperboloids", and the first chords by Viktor Tsoi, Alexey Rybin and Oleg Valinsky sounded on the seashore in Crimea.
In 1982, close friends began recording their debut album "45" at Andrei Tropillo's studio in the House of a young technician. Alexey Rybin and Yuri Kasparyan played guitars, Valery Kirillov played drums, and Maxim Kolosov was assigned the role of bass player. Viktor Tsoi was responsible for the vocals, which were a low and husky baritone with an energetic delivery. This was the original composition of the band.
Later, Tsoi and Rybin parted ways, and Kino was to play at the rock club festival. It was a breakthrough — rumors about the band spread, and Moscow and Leningrad began to wait for them at apartment concerts.
The winter of 1983 brought "Cinema" to everyone, and in 1984 the second album was recorded. The circulations were flying, especially the "Night" released in 1986: it sold 2 million copies, and the Kino group became a "hot" novelty on vinyl shelves, a "nail" in the programs of apartment owners and a guide to the thoughts of citizens of the late USSR.
Since 1987, the band has been releasing the iconic albums "Blood Group" and "A Star named the Sun." No one knows that in just three years, the life of Viktor Tsoi and his lyrical hero will tragically end.
Visitors during the presentation of the latest CD of the Leningrad rock band "Kino" at the Moscow Youth Palace, January 12, 1991
The farewell will remain only on the Black Album disc, a kind of death mask on the bright path of a rock star. A grown-up young man, whose image goes through all his songs without words, will come face to face with the war and leave after his creator, who died in a car accident near the Latvian city of Tukums, near Riga.
He thought his tree wouldn't last a week.
Viktor Tsoi left behind a layer of legacy that subsequent generations have been trying to comprehend for decades. And this is not only music, but also films: Choi starred in "Needle" and "Ass".
In his case, death did not happen not only because it did not exist, but also because Choi was able to become not just a star, but a supernova that split into many particles.
And today Choi remains alive for his fans, he is everywhere and still relevant. His songs are heard in the train station, repeated by teenagers and adults, supported in grief, because a person "must be strong, otherwise why would he be?", they echo off the entrances and lull "good night", they commemorate dead comrades, they teach chords to those who picked up the first The guitar.
Participants of the feature film "Needle" by the Kazakhfilm studio: director Rashid Nugmanov (right), the leader of the rock band "Cinema" Viktor Tsoi (left) and actress Nina Ilyina (center) at the Golden Duke Film Festival of popular genres
Oleg Pivovar, a professional musician and critic, told Izvestia that in the late period of Viktor Tsoi's work he talked about topics that have no statute of limitations: love, death, war and freedom.
By that time, the musician had become a father — his son was born, who was named Alexander, and in every word now one could feel not only the philosophy of the performer himself, but also the fatherly parting words that many of his listeners might miss.
— He did it accurately and figuratively, hitting, as they say, the bone. The secret of his eternal relevance, in my opinion, lies in a rare combination of talent, the importance of the topics raised, and a brilliantly simple form that is understandable and close to everyone, regardless of age and time," said Oleg Pivovar.
The last hero of the Russian legend
When learning his first chords, Viktor Tsoi hardly knew that he would become a new classic and one of the pillars of Russian culture in recent decades. Oleg Pivovar emphasizes that the classics are valuable because they do not lose their power over time: their words and meanings only gain new confirmation in a changing world.
"The perception of Tsoi's work has not only found its place in the surrounding reality, but has also become entrenched in it," the musician added.
Russian Russian legend, because it is precisely the image he created of a "lonely hero", a young man with a pack of cigarettes in his pocket, who is all wrong when his girlfriend is ill, and at the same time the chieftain, who clenches his fist and puts his patient shoulders under the whip, resonates with the Russian cultural code.
— Tsoi wrote in Russian, and it was this language that became his thought guide. The themes he addressed — loneliness, rebellion, sacrifice — are close to any person who is prone to reflection, regardless of the country. We were just lucky that he was a Soviet artist, and his words entered our cultural context," Oleg Pivovar noted.
There were many recent folk heroes in Russia, but Tsoi can still be called one of the apostles of modern Russian thought, Pivovar emphasized. He was a man who talked to us about the main things, remaining himself, and that's where his vivacity and strength lay.
Only a conductor of eternal ideas and truths, rather than a "saint" and the last, could present a song with truly Christian lines: "And he will come and bring spring with him, and disperse the gray clouds of the army ..." Only Viktor Tsoi, who left us 35 years ago, could say bluntly:
Death is worth living,
And love is worth the wait.
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