Patriotic theme in the work of the Lyube group. History of the Lube group

It belongs to the producer and composer Igor Matvienko, who at that time worked at the Record Studio of Popular Music. In 1987-1988 he wrote music for debut songs based on poems by poets Alexander Shaganov and Mikhail Andreev. In those same years, the permanent leader of the group, soloist Nikolai Rastorguev, was also found. Perhaps it was he who came up with the idea for the name of the group, since he was from Lyubertsy, near Moscow. The name of the group may be associated with the popular Luber youth movement in those years, the ideas of which were reflected in the early work of the group.

On January 14, 1989, the first songs of “Lube” - “Lyubertsy” and “Old Man Makhno” were recorded in the “Sound” studio and in the studio of the Moscow Palace of Youth. Participating in this work were Igor Matvienko, Nikolai Rastorguev, guitarist of the Mirage group Alexey Gorbashov and Lyubertsy resident (musician of the Lyubertsy restaurant) Viktor Zastrov. In the same year, the group’s first tour and performance at Alla Pugacheva’s “Christmas Meetings” took place, at which Rastorguev, on the advice of Alla Borisovna, put on a military gymnast to perform the song “Atas”, and since then it has become an important attribute of his stage image.

In subsequent years, the group's popularity grew. (According to the research holding ROMIR Monitoring as of January 2006, 17% of respondents named “Lube” the best pop group.) The direction of the group’s musical creativity was gradually adjusted, which in the mid-1990s touched on current military rock themes and yard chanson, which largely reworked traditions of the Soviet stage.

Nikolai Rastorguev - Honored Artist (1997) and People's Artist of Russia (2002). The group's musicians Anatoly Kuleshov, Vitaly Loktev and Alexander Erokhin were also awarded the title of Honored Artist (2004).

Interesting Facts

The video for “Don’t Be a Fool, America” received the Grand Prix of the Advertising Film Festival at Cannes for Best Director.
-On May 7, 1995, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Victory, the song “Lube” - “Combat” was broadcast for the first time. Although many still believe that this is a song about the war in Chechnya.
-The group participated in the election campaign of the Rodina bloc in 2003. Subsequently, the group held concerts more than once in support of the United Russia party and the Young Guard youth movement.
-At the V award ceremony of the Russian recording industry "Record-2003" in November 2003, the album "Come on for..." was recognized as "Album of the Year", which stayed at the top of the sales charts for almost the entire 2002.
- “Lube” is the favorite group of the second President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.

Composition of the group

First lineup:

Vocals - Nikolay Rastorguev
-bass guitar - Alexander Nikolaev
-guitar - Vyacheslav Tereshonok
-drums - Rinat Bakhteev
-keyboards - Alexander Davydov

The group existed in this form for no more than a year. And already in 1990 the composition began to change. During the existence of the group, Yuri Ripyakh (drums), Alexander Weinberg (bass guitar, lead guitar), Sergei Bashlykov (bass guitar), Evgeniy Nasibulin, Oleg Zenin, Sergei Pereguda (guitar) managed to visit it.

Current lineup:

Vocals, guitar - Nikolay Rastorguev
-bass guitar - Pavel Usanov
-drums - Alexander Erokhin
-keyboard instruments, button accordion - Vitaly Loktev
-guitar - Alexey Khokhlov, Yuri Rymanov
-backing vocals - Anatoly Kuleshov, Alexey Tarasov

Almost all of the group's songs were written by Igor Matvienko (music), Alexander Shaganov (lyrics) and Mikhail Andreev (lyrics).

"Lube" is a Soviet and Russian musical group founded on January 14, 1989 by composer Igor Matvienko, whose leader and soloist is Nikolai Rastorguev. The group's creativity is focused on rock music using elements of art songs and Russian folk music.

The idea of ​​​​creating the Lyube group belonged to the producer and composer Igor Matvienko, who at that time worked at the Record popular music studio.

In 1988, it was in his head that the idea of ​​​​creating a new musical group, different from the usual Soviet stage of the late period, arose. A musical group was created whose work is close to the national-patriotic direction with elements of folklore, military themes, art songs and lyrical works. The musical accompaniment of the songs is a kind of symbiosis of popular, folk and rock music, in some cases with extensive choral parts. The search for a candidate for the role of vocalist took a long time (initially it was offered to Sergei Mazaev, until Matvienko’s former “subordinate” from work in the “Hello, Song” ensemble, Nikolai Rastorguev) was finally appointed to this position (some songs from the repertoire of the “Hello, Song” ensemble "included in the first album of the group "Lube").

Work on recording the first songs began on January 14, 1989 in the Sound studio (headed by Andrey Lukinov). The following took part in the work: guitarist of the Mirage group Alexey Gorbashov, another guitarist, Viktor Zastrov, a Lyubertsy resident by registration and conviction, tenor Anatoly Kuleshov and bass Alexey Tarasov were invited to record the choir, Nikolay Rastorguev as a vocalist, as well as Igor Matvienko as composer, arranger and artistic director. From that moment on, it was decided to keep a calendar and consider this date as the official birthday of “Lube”.

The texts for the debut works “Lube” were written by the poet Alexander Shaganov, who has proven himself through his work with the rock group “Black Coffee” (the song “Vladimir Rus”) and Dmitry Malikov (the song “Until Tomorrow”), as well as the poet from Tomsk Mikhail Andreev, wrote for the Matvienkov group “Class” and the Leningrad group “Forum”. The first songs recorded were “Lyubertsy” and “Old Man Makhno”. Later, other songs were recorded that became popular over time: “Dusya-aggregat”, “Atas”, “Don’t ruin, men”, and others.

“I came to Moscow to receive the Lenin Komsomol Prize and decided to meet with Igor Matvienko at a rehearsal of a very promising group. I gave them my song “Cages” and decided to see what came out of it. I arrived early and sat down on the windowsill to wait, a young man was sitting there, also waiting for Matvienko. We started talking. This was young Kolya Rastorguev.

The first tour of “Lube” began at the end of March 1989. The lead singer of the group “Class” Oleg Katsura joined them with his program. Concerts took place in Pyatigorsk and Zheleznovodsk. The first concerts were not successful and were held in empty halls. The concert lineup of the group was as follows: Nikolay Rastorguev - vocals, Alexander Nikolaev - bass guitar, Vyacheslav Tereshonok - guitar, Rinat Bakhteev - drums, Alexander Davydov - keyboards. True, the group did not last long in this composition and a year later there was a change of musicians.

In December 1989, an invitation was received to perform in “Christmas Meetings” by Alla Pugacheva. Participation in this concert also includes the stage image of the group’s lead singer Nikolai Rastorguev - a military uniform of the 1939 model, rented from the Soviet Army Theater for the performance of the songs “Atas” and “Don’t ruin, men.” The idea belongs to Alla Borisovna Pugacheva, she once said at a rehearsal: “What did they wear after the war? Zheglov, Sharapov... tunics, boots.” The form suited Rastorguev and corresponded to the theme of the songs. Many then considered the lead singer of “Lube” to be a retired military man; in fact, he did not even serve in the army. The uniform itself, over time, received changes: the usual officer's harness, in which the first performance was made, was replaced by a harness with a five-pointed star in the form of the emblem of the Red Army, and even later a breastplate with the inscription “Lube” appeared against the background of the Russian national flag.

" Nevsky Avenue. I was walking around St. Petersburg and saw a portrait of Nikolai Rastorguev. Then I realized that Kolya had become a popular person. Although, at our first acquaintance, it was impossible to guess the future People's Artist in Rastorguev. Matvienko brought Kolya and said that this is our new soloist. When a short, heavily built man walked through the door, I strongly doubted his capabilities. I asked how old he was, he answered: “32”, I was 24 years old at that time. And by that time I wrote the song “Vladimirskaya Rus”, which became very popular performed by the group “Black Coffee”. The first song that Kolya and I started recording in the studio was “Old Man Makhno”. We recorded the entire album in a week. Those songs that were included in the first album of the Lyube group had been lying around in our briefcases for a year and a half - there was no money to record them.
(Alexander Shaganov, www.trud.ru)

In 1990, a magnetic album was released with the first songs of the group entitled “We will now live in a new way or rock about Lyubertsy”, which became the prototype of the first album which would later be included in the official discography of “Lyube”.

" - Hello friends! My name is Nikolai Rastorguev, I am the lead singer of the group “Lube”, now you will hear the first album of our group...” - with these words of Rastorguev the magnetic album begins, which included the first songs between which, as small inserts, audio tracks (intro) with information about the group and authors were placed , recording studio. With the release of these first songs “Lube”, Igor Matvienko founded his own production center on behalf of which all the composer’s products will now be produced, “Lube” became the first collective of this center.

In the same year, there was a change of musicians in the group: Yuri Ripyakh took the place on the percussion instruments, and Vitaly Loktev took the place on the keyboards. Alexander Weinberg is invited as another guitarist.

The first song of the group "Lube", which became a laureate of the Song of the Year festival, is "Atas".
Then the filming took place in the Ostankino studio. And by the way our song sounded,
how Kolya and the Lyube musicians performed, how the audience applauded,
When we received our diplomas, I got the impression that
that among all the songs that were performed at the festival,
among all the songs of that year; the song "Atas" was the brightest...

The first year of Lyube’s creative activity was marked by the musicians’ appearance on the stage, appearance on television and the distribution of songs in record sales kiosks. The group became recognizable, performed in programs and broadcasts broadcast throughout the country: “What, Where, When”, “Christmas Meetings” by Alla Pugacheva”, the group became a laureate of the annual all-Union song competition “Song of the Year” (in 1990 “Lube” became finalists of the competition with the song “Atas”).

In 1991, a record (LP) was released with the debut album “Atas”, the songs of which: “Old Man Makhno”, “Taganskaya Station”, “Don’t Ruin, Men”, “Atas”, “Lyubertsy”, etc. were already well known on television, radio and concerts. The recording was carried out at the Sound studio and the studio of the Moscow Palace of Youth. Due to technical features, the vinyl media did not contain the entire album (only 11 out of 14 songs were included). Later, a CD and audio cassette with the full-length first album appeared on store shelves.

In the album cover design, artist Vladimir Volegov stylized the group as a paramilitary detachment during the Civil War of 1917-1920. moving in a cart with a machine gun through the village, thereby drawing a parallel with the hit of the group “Old Man Makhno”.

Despite the release of their first official album, the group is recording new songs and actively touring. Saving studio time, Igor Matvienko records musical parts and arrangements, inviting session musicians while the group is at concerts.

“One time Igor Matvienko called me on the phone from Moscow and asked: “We’re running out of time, help us out urgently, old man. “Lube” and I are going to the studio to record. Try to sketch out at least a few choruses.” And right over the phone he played me a few chords of the future song. Gave me a studio phone number. He says we'll wait. And my relatives and I gathered on this day to plant potatoes in the garden. I had already dressed accordingly and was literally standing in the doorway when the phone rang. Well, I put the shovel aside, sat down at the table, and began to think. So out of courage, out of passion, the song “Tram Pyaterochka” appeared.

In March 1991, a series of concerts with a program entitled “All Power - Lyube!” was held at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex. with the support of the company "LIS'S" (owner Sergei Lisovsky), which included already popular songs, such as: "Atas", "Lyubertsy", "Old Man Makhno", as well as new ones, previously unreleased and not broadcast on radio and television songs: “No, play the fool, America”, “Hare sheepskin coat”, “Lord, have mercy on us sinners and save...” etc. In support of the program, a video version of the concert of the same name will be released: A special feature of the recording market of that time was and remains uncontrolled stream of unlicensed audio products. The Lyube group did not escape this either. The first songs of the new planned album were stolen and distributed without the permission of “Lube” on audio media. In order to reduce losses, PC Igor Matvienko releases its own pilot version of the second album called “Don’t Be a Fool, America” (according to another version, one of the group’s early albums was specially given to pirate companies for promotion).

“- A little information for fans, in connection with the release of a pirated album, we are forced to officially release our own version of this album...” - this is exactly what the band’s producer Igor Matvienko says on the introductory recording of the magnetic album.

For the first time, “Lube” begins filming its official video clip (although previously they had already shot videos for the song “Cages” from the debut album and the English-language song “No More Barricades,” which are not included in the group’s official video series). Filming took place in Sochi for the song “Don’t be a fool, America.” A technical feature of creating the video was the introduction of computer graphics with animation elements. Sergey Bazhenov (BS Graphics) was responsible for directing, computer graphics and animation. The artist was Dmitry Venikov. The clip was “drawn” on a “Paintbox” (a prototype of modern computer graphics programs). The filming director was Kirill Kruglyansky (Russian Troika Video company). The background for the video was a burned-out Sochi restaurant.

The video took quite a long time to film; each frame had to be painted by hand. The finished product was shown to the viewer in 1992. Later, the famous music observer Artemy Troitsky sent a video clip to the Midem international festival in Cannes (without notifying the Lyube participants). Thus, in 1994, the video for the song “Don’t be a fool, America” received a special prize “For humor and quality of visuals” (out of 12 jury members, only two voted against). According to Billboard columnist Jeff Levenson, at the aforementioned MIDEM fair, the clip became the topic of heated debate, including among lawyers, on the subject of whether the clip was an example of comic militarism, veiled propaganda or a clever parody.

The group itself is undergoing a change in composition. Having decided to take up his own project, namely, the rising star from Minsk Alena Sviridova, Yuri Ripyakh leaves the group, and is replaced by the drummer of the Gulyai Pole group Alexander Erokhin. Following Ripyakh, bass guitarist Alexander Nikolaev temporarily left Lyube for family reasons; Sergei Bashlykov, who has now opened a guitar school in Germany, began to master the bass guitar as part of the group. Through the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” an announcement was made about the recruitment of a choir, so backing vocalists Evgeny Nasibulin and Oleg Zenin appeared in the group.

In 1992, the group released their second album, “Who Said We Lived Badly..?” Released back in 1991, the interim magnetic album is getting a full-fledged release - previously unincluded songs have been added, and a branded disc with printing has been released. Work on the album took two years. The recording was made at the recording studios of the Moscow Palace of Youth and Stas Namin's studio (SNC). Mastering was done in Germany, in the Munich studio MSM, (directed by Christoph Stickel). Among the most famous songs on the album: “Come on, play around,” “Don’t be a fool, America,” “Hare sheepskin coat,” “Tram Pyaterochka,” “Old gentleman.”

Early editions of the album (published in Germany) contain very incomplete information about the band and the album, with many grammatical errors. This fact is typical for publications of that time (even branded ones) abroad. However, this particular edition is considered the first official for this album. The album was later re-released. The album's design included photographs of the band's musicians against the backdrop of old Moscow courtyards taken by A. Fadeev and E. Voensky, as well as historical photographs from the 20s and 30s.

During the release of the second album, guitarist Alexander Weinberg left the group. Together with backing vocalist Oleg Zenin, he organizes the group “Our Business”.

During the first three years of its existence, the Lyube group gave about 800 concerts, during which time it attracted more than three million people to its performances.

Back in 1992, “Lube” began recording new songs that differed from the songs of the previous two albums in theme, sound quality and predominantly rock sound in the style of rock ballads. Recording songs for the new album lasted almost two years. All music and arrangements were written by Igor Matvienko. The authors of the texts were: Alexander Shaganov, Mikhail Andreev and Vladimir Baranov. Professional musicians were invited to record the music: guitarist Nikolai Devlet-Kildeev (group "Moral Code"), drummer Alexander Kosorunin (group "Untouchables", "Rondo"). A group of folk instruments participated in the recording of some songs. The choral arrangement was handled by Anatoly Kuleshov (since 1994 he was included in the permanent composition of the Lyube group as a choirmaster and backing vocalist). The choral parts were performed by a team of vocalists, both those who had previously worked with “Lube” (Alexei Tarasov, Evgeny Nasibulin, Oleg Zenin), and new ones brought in to participate in the recording of the album (Yuri Vishnyakov, Boris Chepikov - both are members of the “people's club of Russian lovers bass"). Recording and mixing were carried out at the Mosfilm studio, directed by Vasily Krachkovsky, mastering was performed by the German company Audiorent.

After recording the songs, it was planned to shoot video clips for some of them. It was decided to combine these clips, connect them with meaning, and so the idea came to make a feature film, the musical episodes of which would be the songs of the group “Lube”. Dmitry Zolotukhin was invited as the director of the film. Filming took place in 1993 with the participation of the Kontakt studio, Mosfilm and the Central Film Studio of Children's and Youth Films named after. Gorky." Actress Marina Levtova was invited to play the main role, as well as a number of famous theater and film actors. The script is based on new songs, each of which is a complete musical novella that tells a short story. The plot of the film is quite simple: TV journalist Marina Levtova comes to the detention zone and interviews prisoners, guards, and children from an orphanage. People tell, remember, and everyone's story is a song. At the same time, the Lyube group gives a concert in the camp. Although the case takes place in a colony, the criminal aspect does not dominate the picture - this, according to Igor Matvienko, is rather a zone of human life. “Lube Zone” is a film made with songs. The group's album of the same name, in its themes, depth and drama, goes beyond the usual boundaries that exist in Russian show business. The seriousness of the intentions of the musicians and the band's producer was also expressed in the fact that they delayed the release of the finished album until the release of the film by almost a year and a half, risking reducing the level of their popularity by performing old songs. The album's songs are distinguished by their diverse themes: on the one hand, the group continues its style characteristic of previous albums (songs: “Sparu”, “Road”), on the other hand, songs in the style of rock ballads (“Moon”, “Little Sister”) became an innovation. ). The song “Horse” becomes special in the group’s repertoire. Recorded without musical accompaniment with choir parts, this song will become a hit for the group after the release of the album, which is considered by many to be a folk song. A video recording of a performance with the song “Horse” at the “Star Surf” festival in 1994 in Sevastopol was later included in the official collection of video clips of the group.

After the premiere of the film and the release of the album in 1994, it became clear that the group was still in demand by the public, despite the rather experimental sound of the musical material in a manner unusual for Lyube. The “Lube Zone” CD became the best among domestic CDs in the production and sound category at the end of 1994 in Russia; for winning among more than 60 (sixty) Russian recording companies, it was awarded the “Bronze Spinning Top” prize. The creative approach to the album's design was highly appreciated among American design firms (the cover and booklet are made in the form of photographs from the film with lyrics and information about the recording of the album). The album “Lube Zone”, released in 1994 as a soundtrack to the film of the same name, became the group’s first work related to cinema.

In 1993, guitarist Vyacheslav Tereshonok died (presumably from drugs) [source not specified 289 days], professional guitarist Sergei Pereguda was invited to take his place (previously worked with Evgeny Belousov, in the groups “Integral”, “Jolly Fellows”).

On May 7, 1995, for the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the song “Combat” was recorded and broadcast for the first time. The verses of the song by the author Alexander Shaganov lay on the desk for two years, later Igor Matvienko wrote music on them. The text, music and performance are presented in a style that characterizes military themes. The song narrates episodes of the war, and the musical accompaniment alternates with the melody characteristic of the Great Patriotic War with the rhythms of modern rock music, thereby drawing parallels between wars of different years. The first performance of the song “Combat” took place in Moscow, in the park of the Central House of the Soviet Army at a concert dedicated to Victory Day. A paramilitary video was planned, for which footage of an airborne division exercise was filmed, but it was not completed in time. Work on the next album began with the song “Combat,” and the song itself became a popular hit for the group and was recognized in Russia as the best song of 1995.

During the New Year holidays of 1996, the ORT TV channel showed the musical film “Old Songs about the Main Thing,” in which Nikolai Rastorguev performed the song “The Dark Mounds Are Sleeping” (by the poet Boris Laskin and the composer Nikita Bogoslovsky), which is a cover version of the original song from 1939 of the year. Later, during the 1996 presidential election campaign, “Lube” presented new songs “Moscow Streets” and “Demobilization Soon.” All these songs were included in the new album, which was based on military themes.

In May 1996, the album “Combat” was released, it contained both new compositions: “Moscow Streets”, “Samovolochka”, “The main thing is that I have you”, which immediately became popular, and songs already familiar to several generations , “Two comrades served,” “The dark mounds are sleeping.” For the first time, when recording an album, all the main parts were performed directly by the Lube musicians. The songs were recorded at the Lyube and N. Rastorgueva studio and at the Mosfilm studio. Accordion player Vladimir Pirsky (Russia ensemble) and guitarist Alexander Levshin (worked in A. Pugacheva’s group) took part in the recording. Most of the songs on the album were recorded. in a combination of folk and modern instruments, which has already become a distinctive feature of the songs "Lube". The recording used quotes, as well as parts of folk and classical Russian musical works. Some songs were recorded performed by Nikolai Rastorguev with an ensemble of folk instruments. The album contains two duets: with Lyudmila Zykina “Talk to me” (Nikolai Stepanov, the head of the Rossiya ensemble with which Zykina performed, suggested creating this song) and a duet with Rolan Bykov - a cover version of the song “Two Comrades Served". Initially there were two versions of the album: version for an audio cassette, it differs in the arrangement of songs on the cassette and does not contain the track “Orlyata-2”, which is present on the CD. The design of the album was carried out by DirectDesign, which has been collaborating with “Lube” and Igor Matvienko’s PC for many years. The design of the album is designed in a military style with the image of a red star (the emblem of the Red Army) against the background of a military uniform, as well as using historical photographs from the time of the Great Patriotic War.

“ It seems to me that I was born into this world for a song like “Combat”, because the song is more than 10 years old, and it is just as popular. I was at its first performance in the CDSA (Central House of the Soviet Army) park. Soldiers say this song lifts their spirit. I talked with officers, generals, and fate somehow brought me together with the now deceased Minister of Defense, Marshal Sergeev. And they all said: “This is the song that helps us in difficult work.”
The constant professional composition of musicians has ensured that since that time the group’s concerts have been held with live sound. In support of the album, a solo concert was held, broadcast on television, and there was also a performance at the “Slavic Bazaar” in Vitebsk; at the same festival, Nikolai Rastorguev, in a duet with Lyudmila Zykina, performed the song “Talk to Me.” Concerts with live performance, which was a rarity at that time, did not go unnoticed by music critics (in particular, by journalists from the “Sharks of the Feather” program). The content of this album turned out to be in tune with the mood of Russian society, which was experiencing the war in the Caucasus. The song “Combat” confidently took the first line of the Russian charts, and the album itself received the award for the best album of 1996 in Russia.

Simultaneously with the album “Combat”, Nikolai Rastorguev is recording a solo album with songs by the British group “The Beatles”. This became Rastorguev’s long-standing dream. The album entitled “Four Nights in Moscow” was released in limited edition in 1996. A characteristic feature of the album is the recording of songs in a “close to the text” style, repeating the original edition of “The Beatles”. Musicians from the Lyube group took part in the recording of the album, as well as a string quartet for recording some parts. Igor Matvienko was one of the recording musicians, and Nikolai Rastorguev himself became the album’s producer.

In 1995, backing vocalist Evgeniy Nasibulin left the band (he was also a guitarist in the film “Lube Zone”). He went to work in the choir “named after Pyatnitsky”. A year later, on August 7, 1996, bass guitarist Alexander Nikolaev, who had worked in the group since its founding, died in a car accident. After some time, Pavel Usanov, who is currently working in the group, was invited to take his place.

By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation (number 1868) dated April 16, 1997, “For services to the state, great contribution to strengthening friendship between peoples, many years of fruitful activity in the field of culture and art,” Nikolai Vyacheslavovich Rastorguev was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

In the spring of the same year, an interim collection of the best songs “Lube” - “Collected Works 1989-1997” - was released. This collection includes the best songs of the group for 8 years, a cover version of the song “Song about a Friend” (from the film “The Way to the Pier”) and a new song “Guys from our yard” from the future album, which was performed at a solo concert group dedicated to Victory Day (the concert was broadcast on television).

On December 5, 1997, a new album, “Songs about People,” was released. A video clip was shot for the title song of the album “There, Behind the Fogs” by director Oleg Gusev and cameraman Max Osadchy, which first appeared on television in November of the same year. The best songs on the album were: “There, Beyond the Fogs,” “Years,” “Starlings.” The song “Isho” was presented at Alla Pugacheva’s Christmas meetings in 1998, and the previously recorded song “Guys from our yard” was slightly changed during the recording of the album and two video clips were shot for it at once (the first is a chronicle of Moscow in the 60-70s. , the second was filmed in 1998 by director Artem Mikhalkov). Continuing the collaboration with Lyudmila Zykina, the duet recorded the famous song “The Volga River Flows” for the album, accompanied by the state ensemble “Russia” under the direction of N. N. Stepanov. New musicians and those who had previously taken part in the Lube recordings, such as guitarist N. Devlet-Kildeev and drummer A. Kosorunin, were invited as session players. The recording was made at several studios: Lyube, Mosfilm, Ostankino and PC Igor Matvienko. In terms of its style, lyrics, and sound, the album is designed in a calm manner of performance, with lyrical songs, without the harsh songs inherent in early albums. These are songs about human relationships: happiness and unhappiness, sadness and slight nostalgia for a time that has already passed. They did not leave indifferent the majority of those to whom these songs are dedicated - ordinary people. The simplicity of the songs is emphasized by the design of the album's booklet, which used photographs of the Lyube group traveling in a train carriage around the country, like most ordinary people.

At the beginning of 1998, in support of the album “Songs about People,” the group went on a concert tour to cities in Russia and abroad. The tour was sponsored by the Peter the Great trademark. The multi-day tour ended with a concert at the Pushkinsky Concert Hall on February 24, 1998. A video and audio version of this performance was released on two CDs, audio and video cassettes in the spring of 1998 under the title “Songs from the concert program “Songs about People.” Yuri Rymanov, who had previously worked with Rastorguev, performed as a guitarist at these concerts in the ensembles “Six Young” and “Leisya Song.” From that time on, he was included in the group.

In January 1998, “Lube” took part in a concert dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Vysotsky. At this concert, the group performed two songs: “On Mass Graves” and “Song of the Stars”, which would later be included in various collections of the group. Nikolai Rastorguev also took part in the recording of the song “Borders” (authors: E. Krylatov and A. Pankratov-Cherny) from the film “Hot Spot” and a cover version of the song “There is only a moment” (authors: A. Zatsepin and L .Derbenev) from the film “Sannikov’s Land” for the musical film “Old songs about the main thing - 3”. The group’s work in recording songs for the musical film “In a Lively Place” (based on the play by A. Ostrvsky) was special. “Lube” performed the title song of the film “Harness Up”, and Nikolai Rastorguev himself played the main role in the film. At the end of the year, at the annual festival “Song of the Year”, a song was presented in a duet with S. Rotaru - “Zasentyabrilo” (authors: V. Matetsky and E. Nebylova).

Among the highlights of the group’s 2001, it is worth noting the live concert “Lube” on Red Square, which took place on Victory Day, May 9. In addition, on November 8, 2001, President V.V. Putin signed a decree “On the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art,” in which he appointed Nikolai Rastorguev one of the cultural advisers. In the same year, for the documentary film “Russian Army”, television producers from Great Britain bought from the group the rights to excerpts from the songs “Demobilization Soon” and “Combat”. The film “Russian Army” some time after the end of filming was aired on Channel 4 of English TV.

On November 1, 2001, the collection “Collected Works. Volume 2". It includes songs not included in the first disc “Collected Works,” as well as new songs: “Carry Me, River” from the film “Border. Taiga Romance" (dir. A. Mitta) and V. Vysotsky's song "Song of the Stars". Now fans have the opportunity to put the second volume of “Collected Works” on their shelves.

On February 23, 2002, the song was broadcast for the first time and a video was shown for the song “Come on for...” written by Igor Matvienko (for the first time for “Lube” he acted simultaneously as the author of music and lyrics). The song was recorded in the style of a rhymed narrative of the history of domestic wars of different years with a vocal background similar to a radio broadcast; it was immediately received by the public, took the first line of the charts and ultimately became the best song of the year. The album of the same name “Come on for...” was released in March 2002, and already on March 18, 19, 20 the band performed at the State Central Concert Hall “Russia” with a new program. The album was recorded in the retro style of the 1960-1970s and was divided into two parts: the first “village” - the main songs: “Birches”, “Mowing”, “Carry Me, River”, the second “urban” with typical songs of the style those years: “Two Girlfriends”, “The Guitar Sings”. To bring the sound closer to a retrospective, vintage guitars, microphones, and an electric organ were used, and an MCI console from the 1970s was specially purchased for mixing. Part of the recording was done in the old Mosfilm tone studio (a characteristic focus on past films). The result was pop-rock, which was widely used by Soviet VIA. The ensemble “Russia” under the direction of N. N. Stepanov was invited to record parts of folk instruments. The album also contains the romance “It Was, It Was” based on the verses of N. Gumilyov and the song “Grandma” recorded with the children’s choir of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. The songs, sound style, album cover design - everything pointed to a “retro” move.

“For many reasons, I wanted to go retro with the album. And the sound of the album is much more fashionable than many modern bands. I wanted to make a cheerful album for Lyube. I deliberately refused even very good songs just because they were sad. The album turned out to be with a focus on the past. Moreover, it presents a kind of retrospective of the styles of the bygone century. Glorifying the joy of creative work of the 30s, memories of physicists and lyricists of the 60s, the pioneer soulful song “Grandma”, a shake about two classmates who are slowly walking through the city, popular style of the 70s, cheerful perestroika chanson. (Igor Matvienko, interview with the newspaper “Arguments and Facts”, 2002) "
In September 2002, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, while on vacation in the city of Sochi, attended a concert of the Lyube group in the Festivalny concert hall. The President personally thanked Nikolai Rastorguev for the concert and invited the Lyube group to visit him at the Bocharov Ruchey residence, where Lyudmila Putina met them and invited them to tea.

In October 2002, the soloist of “Lube” Nikolai Rastorguev was awarded the title of People’s Artist of the Russian Federation. One of the first was a congratulation from Joseph Kobzon, who wrote in a telegram: “Nikolai, you became a people’s name a long time ago. Thank you to the President and the Government for officially recognizing you as a people’s person!” On October 22, 2002, the collection “Anniversary. Best Songs", live album on two discs. All songs were recorded at a “live” concert at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex in May 2000 and two songs “Come on for...” and “Carry me, river” were added live from a solo concert in March 2002. With the release of this album, guitarist Sergei Pereguda left the group for several years, he left for Canada, and Yuri Rymanov returned to the band as a guitarist.

In 2003, the Lyube group participated in the election campaign of the Rodina bloc. During this period, Nikolai Rastorguev recorded the previously performed song “Birches” in a duet with Sergei Bezrukov for the TV series “Plot”.

At the V award ceremony of the Russian recording industry "Record-2003" in November 2003, the album "Come on for..." was recognized as "Album of the Year", which stayed at the top of the sales charts for almost the entire 2002.

In 2004, the Lube group celebrates 15 years since its formation. As part of the anniversary, it is planned to release two albums and a series of concerts, the first of which will be dedicated to Defender of the Fatherland Day. The first album was a collection of the best military songs, “Guys of Our Regiment,” released on February 23, 2004, which collected the group’s best songs on military themes. The title song was a song based on the poems of O. Mars “Meadow Grass”. The collection included songs “Lyube” on a military theme, songs about the war by various authors and performers, and as a bonus the song “Birches” was recorded in a duet with S. Bezrukov. As a bonus video, a studio version of the video “Come on for...” was presented. For the album design, photographs of soldiers from one of the units of the Russian Army taken for the magazine “Russian View” (photographer Vladimir Vyatkin) were taken. Later, the servicemen recognized themselves on the covers of the album and talked about this fact at the Lyube concert.

In the same year, musicians of the Lyube group Anatoly Kuleshov (choirmaster), Vitaly Loktev (keyboard instruments) and Alexander Erokhin (percussion instruments) were awarded the titles of Honored Artists of the Russian Federation.

As part of the anniversary program, the second album was the release of the album “Rasseya” with new songs. The release took place on February 15, 2005. The music for the album was written by composer Igor Matvienko. The authors of most song tests are poets Alexander Shaganov, Mikhail Andreev, Pavel Zhagun. The main songs of the album were the title track “Scattering” and “Don’t look at the clock.” The style of the album follows a historical timeline. “Lube” traditionally raises the historical theme of the country from different eras, this is expressed even in the design of the disc - the cover is a historical map of the Russian Empire. The disc features duets by Nikolai Rastorguev with Nikita Mikhalkov (the song “My Horse”), the previously performed song “Birches” with Sergei Bezrukov, recorded for the 30th anniversary of the special unit “Alpha” together with the officers of this group, the song “On the Tall Grass” and the song “Clear Falcon”, which the Lyube group recorded with Sergei Mazaev and Nikolai Fomenko. The album also included: a cover version of the group's early hit - "Old Man Makhno", the song "Sister" by an unknown author from the time of the 1st World War and "Anthem of Russia" in a rock arrangement. As a bonus video, the disc included clips for the songs “Birches” and “Through the Tall Grass.”

“Why “Rassya”? Because we all live in a country called Russia, and we love our country."

With the release of the album, a series of concerts were held at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall. In addition to new and old well-known songs, the concert included many duet compositions with Sergei Mazaev and Nikolai Fomenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, the Ivanushki International group, officers of the Alpha group, and the Pesnyary ensemble. And the song “Carry Me, River (Beauty)” was performed by the composer and artistic director of the group, Igor Matvienko, together with the soloist “Lube”.

According to the research holding ROMIR Monitoring as of January 2006, 17% of respondents named “Lube” the best pop group [source not specified 1093 days], the second and third places were taken by the groups “Tea for Two” and “VIA Gra”. As it turned out, the work of the Lyube group is liked mainly by middle-aged men and people with high incomes. The direction of the group's musical creativity was gradually adjusted, which in the mid-1990s touched on current military rock themes and courtyard chanson, which largely reworked the traditions of Soviet pop music.

At the end of 2006, on New Year's Eve, the Lyube group presented a new song, “Muscovites,” which was also included in a number of New Year’s programs. With this song, work on a new album begins, which will last more than two years.

In 2007, to mark the 50th anniversary of Nikolai Rastorguev, a concert was held at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Lube's audiobook “Complete Works” was released. A full-length publication with the history of the creation of the group, interviews with its members, interesting biographical facts, photographs and much more. As an appendix, the book includes 8 numbered albums of the group, thus containing all officially published songs and all information about “Lube” in one publication. A two-disc live concert “In Russia” was also released, recorded in 2005 at solo concerts at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall. As bonuses, two new songs were presented on each disc: “Muscovites” and “If”. In the same year, a collection of video clips of the group throughout its history and a video recording of the anniversary concert for the 10th anniversary of the group in 2000 were presented on two video discs. Nikolai Rastorguev’s solo album with songs “The Beatles” was released in a separate edition; the album is a re-release of the 1996 album “Four Nights in Moscow” with the addition of tracks and was called “Birthday (With Love)”.

In November 2008, the third volume of the “Collected Works” “Lube” was released (the first and second were published in 1997 and 2001). The band’s new album includes hits from the albums: “Atas”, “Who said that we lived badly..?”, “Lube Zone”, “Combat”, “Songs about people”, “Come on for..”, “Scattering” In addition, the disc featured two new songs by the group recorded in 2008 - “Zaimka” and “My Admiral.” The song “My Admiral” was included in the soundtrack to the film “Admiral”, which tells about the fate of Admiral Kolchak.

In January 2009, the Lyube group turned 20 years old. At the beginning of the year, the release of a new album dedicated to this event was announced. Before the release of this album, guitarist Yuri Rymanov left the group, having worked in Lyube for 10 years, he decided to pursue a solo career, and Sergei Pereguda returned from Canada to take his place.

In February, shortly before the premiere of the album, Nikolai Rastorguev visited the press center of Komsomolskaya Pravda:

“First of all, there is the song “Ours.” Today, in my opinion, they finished mixing it. And they called the album “Ours.” This is such a good word, by the way, “ours.” (N. Rastorguev about the release of the album “Own”). »
Characterizing the album, Rastorguev named some songs already well known to radio listeners, for example, “Zaimka”, “If ...”, “My Admiral”, “Muscovites”, while emphasizing that there are many completely new songs - “Verka”, “Svoi” ", "The Dawn", "Calendar" and others. As he himself admitted in an interview with the Novgorod newspaper Prospekt, the album, in his opinion, turned out great. Composer Igor Matvienko calls the album introverted and personal, because many of the songs there are dedicated to love for a woman. According to Rastorguev, the musicians recorded “The Own” for about a year, so they had enough time to select songs, choose arrangements and work quietly in the studio.

The album contains duets with Grigory Leps, Nikita Mikhalkov and Victoria Daineko, while all duet compositions were recorded in the album and in solo performance. For the first time in the history of the group, the recording was made only in the studio of the Igor Matvienko Production Center (with the exception of recording drums in the “Vintage studio”). Guitarist Sergei Pereguda returned from Canada and took part in the recording of the album. Also, famous musicians, both those who had previously worked and those new, working with the Igor Matvienko PC, were invited to record. In July, a video clip was shot for the song “A Dawn” with the participation of Dmitry Dyuzhev and Sergei Bezrukov, and the song itself became the soundtrack to the film “High Security Vacation.”

On February 22 and 23, 2009, the anniversary concerts “Lube. Its 20 years.” A new program and the best songs of 20 years were presented. The scenery was created especially for the anniversary concert by production designer Dmitry Muchnik. Five-meter high letters “Lube” with collages of photographs of the group were installed on the stage, and the background for the large-scale decoration was a huge screen on which chronicles of the group were broadcast, as well as various images that changed depending on the song: periodically sea waves appeared on the screen, then forests, then retro photographs. After the main solo concert, the group went on a concert tour to numerous cities in Russia, near and far abroad. In April 2009, while returning from an Easter service, the choirmaster and backing vocalist of the group, Anatoly Kuleshov, who had worked at Lyube for 20 years since its founding, died in a car accident.

At the beginning of December, a vote was opened on the website of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper for the most popular people of the year. 290,802 people took part in it. KP readers named Lube the group of the year, giving it 28% of their votes.

In 2010, Nikolai Rastorguev became a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth convocation from the Stavropol Territory, replacing United Russia deputy Sergei Smetanyuk, who was appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District. Nikolai Rastorguev became a member of the State Duma Committee on Culture. In this regard, the group holds concerts and takes part in actions of the ruling party “United Russia” and the youth movement “Young Guard”. In the same year, guitarist Alexey Khokhlov left the group after working in Lyube for 10 years.

In February 2012, a concert of the Lyube group took place at Crocus Citi Hall to mark the anniversary of Nikolai Rastorguev (55 years old). Pop, television and political stars took part in the concert. The release of a collection of the best songs of the Lyube group on two discs entitled “55” (in honor of the anniversary date) was timed to coincide with this date. At the same time, two new backing vocalists Pavel Suchkov and Alexey Kantur were introduced into the group.

In the same month, the group “Lube” together with the groups “Korni” and “In2Nation” (all are projects of the Human Rights Center Igor Matvienko) especially for the film “August. Eighth" (directed by Dzhanik Fayziev) the song "Simply Love" was recorded. Later, a video clip was shot for it.

On February 23, 2013, at Crocus City Hall, a concert of the Lyube group was held, the musicians performed their best songs. At the end of 2013, the musicians begin recording a new album. [source not specified 300 days]

In 2014, the Lyube group turns 25 years old.

On February 7, on the opening day of the Olympics in Sochi, the Lyube group presented the song “For you, Motherland,” the group’s press service told InterMedia. According to the group's producer Igor Matvienko, the composition is dedicated to the Olympic Games. The patriotic track will be included in the new album “Lube”, the release of which is promised for the fall of 2014.

“One of the options for the title of the record is “Hymn to the Motherland,” said Igor Matvienko. - I would like to raise the lost aesthetics of the patriotic song of yesteryear. Half of the album is sincere songs, half is poster-patriotic. “For you, Motherland” - just like that. »
On March 15, 2014, an anniversary concert dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Lyube group was held at the Olimpiyskiy Sports Complex (on June 12 of the same year, on Russia Day, a television version of the concert was released). The day after this concert, in connection with the elections in Crimea that determined the state status of the peninsula, the Lyube group gave another concert in support of the local population in Sevastopol.

On October 13, 2014, a new video clip “Everything depends on God and a little on us” with footage from the series “Departing Nature” appeared on the official video channel of the Lyube group on YouTube.

Current lineup
Nikolay Rastorguev - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, tambourine (1989-present)
Vitaly Loktev - keyboards, button accordion (1990-present)
Alexander Erokhin - drums (1991-present)
Sergey Pereguda - guitar (1993-2002, 2009-present)
Pavel Usanov - bass guitar (1996-present)
Alexey Tarasov - backing vocals (1989-present)
Pavel Suchkov - backing vocals (2012-present)
Alexey Kantur - backing vocals (2012-present)
Almost all of the group's songs were written by Igor Matvienko (music), Alexander Shaganov (lyrics) and Mikhail Andreev (lyrics).
Awards
1996-1998, 2000, 2002, 2008-2010, 2012, 2013 - I-III, V, VII, XIII-XV, XVII, XVIII “Golden Gramophone” for the hits “Combat”, “Guys from our yard”, “There , behind the fogs”, “Soldier”, “Come on!”, “My Admiral”, “Verka”, “Everything begins again”, “Simply Love” (together with the groups Korni and In2nation) and “Long” (duet with Lyudmila Sokolova).

“Song of the Year” for hits: 1990 - “Atas”, “Don’t ruin the men” 1991 - “Taganskaya Station” 1992 - The festival was not held 1993 - “For you” 1994 - “Road” 1995 - “Combat” 1996 - “Samovolochka” 1997 - “Starlings”, “Don’t forget your friends” (Nikolai Rastorguev, Vyacheslav Dobrynin, Lev Leshchenko, Mikhail Shufutinsky) 1998 - “There beyond the fogs”, “It’s September” 1999 - “Don’t be a fool, America!”, “Isho” 2000 - “Soldier” 2001 - “Wind-breeze”, “Call me quietly by name” 2002 - “Come on ...”, “Carry me, river ...” 2003 - “Birches”

Lube- Soviet and Russian rock band, founded on January 14, 1989 Igor Matvienko And Nikolay Rastorguev. The team uses in its work elements of art songs, Russian folk music and rock music.

The idea of ​​creating the Lyube group belonged to producer and composer Igor Matvienko, who at that time worked at the Record Studio of Popular Music.

In 1988, it was in his head that the idea of ​​​​creating a new musical group with a slight national-patriotic slant and courageous vocals arose. The search for a candidate for the role of frontman took a long time and painfully until the final verdict was that Igor Igorevich’s former “subordinate” from work in the ensemble “Leisya, Song” Nikolai Rastorguev was appointed to this position. By the way, the song "Uncle Vasya" from the repertoire “Leisya, song” performed by Rastorguev was included in the first record “Lube”.

Start…

The first songs recorded for the still unnamed group were “Lyubertsy” and “Old Man Makhno”. Work on them began on January 14, 1989 in the Sound studio and in the studio of the Moscow Palace of Youth. The guitarist of the group “Mirage” Alexey Gorbashov, Viktor Zastrov, a Lyubertsy resident by registration and by conviction, took part in the work; tenor Anatoly Kuleshov and bass Alexey Tarasov, Igor Matvienko himself and Nikolai Rastorguev were invited to record the choir. From this day on, it was decided to keep chronology and consider this day the official birthday of “Lube”.

The texts for the debut works of “Lube” were written by the poet Alexander Shaganov, who established himself by working with the hard band “Black Coffee” (in particular, "Vladimir Rus'") and Dmitry Malikov ( "Till tomorrow"), as well as Mikhail Andreev, who wrote for the Matvienkovo ​​group “Class” and the Leningrad group “Forum”. Later, other songs were recorded: "Dusya-aggregate", "Atas", "Don't ruin it, guys", etc. In the same year the group’s first tour took place.

The name of the group was invented by Nikolai Rastorguev, for whom the word “lyube” has been familiar since childhood - in addition to the fact that the musician lives in Lyubertsy, near Moscow, in Ukrainian this word means “any, every, different,” but, according to Nikolai Rastorguev, every listener can interpret the name of the group the way he wants.

The first composition of the group was as follows:

• Alexander Nikolaev - bass guitar,
• Vyacheslav Tereshonok - guitar,
• Rinat Bakhteev - drums,
• Alexander Davydov - keyboards,
• Nikolay Rastorguev - vocals.

True, the group did not last long with this composition - after a year the group changed musicians. The first tour began at the end of March 1989. Towards evening, the full group arrived in Vnukovo to fly to Mineralnye Vody. They were also joined by the lead singer of the group “Class” Oleg Katsura. Concerts took place in Pyatigorsk and Zheleznovodsk. The first concerts were not successful and were held in empty halls.

In December 1989, there was a performance at Alla Pugacheva’s “Christmas Meetings,” at which Rastorguev, on the advice of Alla Borisovna, put on a military gymnast to perform the song “Atas,” and since then it has become a distinctive attribute of his stage image.

1990

In 1990, the group’s debut magnetic album entitled “We will now live in a new way” was released, which became the prototype of the first album that would later be included in the official discography of “Lube”.

" - Hello friends! My name is Nikolai Rastorguev, I am the lead singer of the group “Lyube”, now you will hear the first album of our group...”- with these words from Rastorguev, the magnetic album begins, which included the first songs, between which sound tracks (intro) with information about the group, authors, and recording studio were placed as small inserts. Igor Matvienko is establishing a production center on behalf of which all of the composer’s products will now be produced. Lyube became the first team of this center.

In the same year, there was a change of musicians in the group: Yuri Ripyakh took the place on the percussion instruments, and Vitaly Loktev took the place on the keyboards. Alexander Weinberg is invited as another guitarist.

The first year of the group’s creative activity was marked by the musicians’ appearance on the stage and appearance on television screens. The team became recognizable, performed in programs broadcast throughout the country: in the television program “What, Where, When”; in the program “Christmas Meetings” by Alla Pugacheva. Lyube becomes a laureate of the annual all-Union song competition “Song of the Year” (in 1990, Lyube closed the final New Year’s program of the competition with a song "Atas").

1991

In 1991, an LP was released with the debut album “Atas”, the songs of which are: "Old Man Makhno", "Taganskaya Station", "Don't ruin it, guys", "Atas","Lyubertsy" and others were already well known from television, radio and concerts. Due to technical features, the vinyl media did not contain the entire album (only 11 out of 14 songs were included). Later, a CD and audio cassette with the full-length first album appeared on store shelves.

In the album's design, artist Vladimir Volegov stylized the group as a paramilitary detachment from the Civil War of 1919 moving in a cart with a machine gun through the village, thereby drawing a parallel with the group's hit "Old Man Makhno."

Despite the release of their first official album, the group is recording new songs and actively touring. Saving studio time, Igor Matvienko records musical parts while the group is at concerts.

In March, a series of concerts with a program called “All power goes to Lyube!” with the support of the company "LIS'S" which included as old: "Atas", "Lyubertsy", "Old Man Makhno"; and new songs that have not previously been released or broadcast on radio and television: "No, play the fool, America", "Hare sheepskin coat", “Lord, have mercy on us sinners and save us...” etc. In support of the program, a video version of the concert of the same name will be released:

Tracklist of the program “All power - Lyube!” 1991

1. Medley - ensemble “Fidgets”
2. Lyubertsy
3. For you
4. It's always like this
5. Night
6. Tram "Pyaterochka"
7. Fir-trees (duet with Natalya Lapina)
Interview with Igor Matvienko
8. Old Man Makhno
9. Rabbit sheepskin coat
10. Don't be a fool, America!
11. Atas
12. Come on, girls
13. Lord, have mercy on us sinners...

A special feature of the recording market of that time was and remains the uncontrolled flow of unlicensed audio products. The Lyube group did not escape this either. The first songs of the second album were stolen and distributed without permission on audio media. In order to reduce losses, PC Igor Matvienko releases its own, initial, version of the second album called “Don’t play the fool, America.”

“- A little information for fans, due to the release of a pirated album, we are forced to officially release our own version of this album...”- this is exactly what the band’s producer Igor Matvienko says on the introductory recording of the album.

For the first time, “Lube” begins filming its first official video clip. Filming took place in Sochi. to the song "No, play the fool, America". A technical feature of creating the video was the introduction of computer graphics with animation elements. Sergey Bazhenov (BS Graphics) was responsible for directing, computer graphics and animation. The artist was Dmitry Venikov. The clip was "drawn" on the "drawing box" Paintbox. The filming director was Kirill Kruglyansky (Russian Troika Video company, now: representative of the President of Kalmykia). The background for the video was a burned-out Sochi restaurant.

The video took quite a long time to film; each frame had to be painted by hand. The finished product was shown to the viewer in 1992. Later, the famous music observer Artemy Troitsky sent a video clip to the Midem international festival in Cannes, without notifying the Lyube participants. Thus, in 1994, the video for the song “Don’t be a fool, America” received a special prize “For humor and quality of visuals” (out of 12 jury members, only two voted against). According to Billboard columnist Jeff Levenson, at the aforementioned MIDEM fair, the clip became the topic of heated debate, including among lawyers, on the subject of whether the clip was an example of comic militarism, veiled propaganda or a clever parody.

The group itself is undergoing a change in composition. Through the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” an announcement was made about the recruitment of a choir, so backing vocalists Evgeny Nasibulin (joined the Pyatnitsky choir) and Oleg Zenin (organized the group “Our Business” in 1992) appeared in the group. Deciding to start their own project , namely, the rising star from Minsk Alena Sviridova, Yuri Ripyakh leaves the group, and is replaced by the drummer of the Gulyai Pole group Alexander Erokhin. Following him, bass guitarist Alexander Nikolaev temporarily left Lyube for family reasons; Sergei Bashlykov, who has now opened a guitar school in Germany, began to master the bass guitar as part of the group.

1992

In 1992, the group released their second album, “Who Said We Lived Badly..?” Released a year ago in 1991, the interim album is getting a full-fledged release - previously unincluded songs have been added, and a branded disc with printing has been released. Work on the album took two years. The recording was made at the recording studios of the Moscow Dorts Youth and Stas Namin's studio (SNC). Mastering was done in Germany, in the Munich studio MSM, (directed by Christoph Stickel). Among the most famous songs on the album: “Come on, play around,” “Don’t be a fool, America,” “Hare sheepskin coat,” “Tram Pyaterochka,” “Old gentleman.”

The text in the inner liner of the album “Who said that we lived badly..?”

I believe that we all have a damaged genetic system.
Young people, they can be free, but I can’t.
I am free artificially, I create myself free,
I'm trying to act like a free person,
but I can't help it,
Because I know -
April 22 is Lenin's birthday,
because the seventh of November is a holiday for me,
and it cannot be otherwise, and on this day
until the end of my life
I will wake up waiting for the military
parade and someone at the Mausoleum...
But I still try -
although it is very difficult to be free.

K. Borovoy. (newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets”, 1992)

Early editions of the album (published in Germany) contain very little information about the band, with many grammatical errors. This fact is typical for many publications of that time (even branded ones) abroad. Nevertheless, this particular edition is considered the first official for this album and is in great demand with a corresponding price among fans. The album's design included photographs of the band's musicians against the backdrop of old Moscow courtyards taken by E. Voensky, as well as historical photographs from the 20s and 30s.

With the release of the second album, guitarist Alexander Weinberg leaves the group. Together with backing vocalist Oleg Zenin, he organizes the group “Our Business”.

1992-1994

Back in 1992, “Lube” began recording new songs that differed from the songs of the previous two albums in their seriousness, sound quality, predominantly rock sound with elements of folk instruments and extensive choir parts. Recording songs for the new album lasted almost two years. The authors of the texts were: Alexander Shaganov, Mikhail Andreev and Vladimir Baranov. All music and arrangements were written by Igor Matvienko. Nikolai Rastorguev’s work in cinema begins with the album “Lube Zone”, released in 1994 as a soundtrack to the film of the same name. The songs “Road”, “Little Sister”, “Horse” were played in the film.

1995-1996

On May 7, 1995, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Victory, the song “Lube” - “Combat” was broadcast for the first time. There was even a plan for a paramilitary video, for which footage of the Airborne Division's exercises was filmed, but it was not completed in time. Work on the next album began in 1995. In 1996 at the festival<Славянский Базар>in Vitebsk, Nikolai Rastorguev, in a duet with Lyudmila Zykina, performed the song Talk to me (music by Igor Matvienko, lyrics by Alexander Shaganov). This song was included in the new album dedicated to a military theme. The content of this album turned out to be in tune with the mood of Russian society experiencing the Chechen war. The song “Combat” confidently took first place in the Russian charts. The album, released in May 1996, contained new compositions: “Samovolochka”, “The main thing is that I have you”, “Moscow streets”, the songs “Dark Mounds Are Sleeping”, “Two Comrades Served”, already familiar to several generations. . Bass guitarist Alexander Nikolaev, who had worked in the group since its founding, died in a car accident on August 7, 1996.

1997

In 1997, an interim collection of the best was published - “Collected Works” and the lyrical creation “Songs about People”. One of Rastorguev’s favorite songs included in this album is “There, Beyond the Fogs.”

The video for “Don’t Be a Fool, America” received the Grand Prix of the Advertising Film Festival at Cannes for Best Director. At the V award ceremony of the Russian recording industry "Record-2003" in November 2003, the album "Come on for..." was recognized as "Album of the Year", which stayed at the top of the sales charts for almost the entire 2002. The filmography of the leader of “Lube” today consists, in addition to the above, of two more films: “On a Busy Place” and “Check”.

In 1999, the Lyube group is preparing to celebrate its tenth anniversary. A number of performances and a new album are planned to be dedicated to this event. In the fall, with the assistance of the creative and legal association “Tavria Games”, the anniversary tour “Lyube-10 years!” is organized. in the cities of Ukraine with the group “The Brothers Karamazov” in support of the “Choose the Future!” campaign. President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. In September of the same year, the song “Half-Stanochki” was presented, which later became the title track for the new album dedicated to the 10th anniversary.

The album was released on May 10, 2000 and turned out to be diverse, most of the songs were hits. The number of songs coincides with the date of the anniversary: ​​ten years - ten songs, and on May 13 a solo concert took place in Moscow, at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the group, at which songs from the new album and the best songs for 10 years were presented (a total of 30 songs were performed) .

The group participated in the election campaign of the Rodina bloc in 2003. Subsequently, the group held concerts more than once in support of the United Russia party and the Young Guard youth movement.

In subsequent years, the group's popularity grew. According to the research holding ROMIR Monitoring as of January 2006, 17% of respondents named Lyube the best pop group. The direction of the group's musical creativity was gradually adjusted, which in the mid-1990s touched on current military rock themes and courtyard chanson, which largely reworked the traditions of Soviet pop music.

Nikolai Rastorguev - Honored Artist (1997) and People's Artist of Russia (2002). The group's musicians Anatoly Kuleshov, Vitaly Loktev and Alexander Erokhin were also awarded the title of Honored Artist (2004).

Backing vocalist of the group Anatoly Kuleshov, who participated in the band since its founding, tragically died in a car accident on April 19, 2009.

In 2010, Nikolai Rastorguev became a deputy of the Federal Assembly of the United Russia faction of the Stavropol Territory.

In 2014, the Lyube group turns 25 years old.

On February 23, 2015, a new album “For You, Motherland” was released, dedicated to the 55th anniversary of composer and producer Igor Matvienko and the 25th anniversary of the Lyube group. The presentation of the album took place on the Crocus City Hall stage in Moscow, where the group performed the Kombat concert program.

On April 20, 2015, the song “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” was presented on the group’s official YouTube channel, recorded jointly by the Lyube group and officers of the Alpha group. The song is the final theme to Renat Davletyarov’s film “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet...”, a new film adaptation of Boris Vasiliev’s story of the same name, filmed in honor of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

On April 19, 2016, the bass guitarist of the Lyube group, Pavel Usanov, died from a traumatic brain injury received during an attack by unknown assailants. On April 2 of the same year. By a tragic coincidence, on this day seven years earlier, another Lyube member, Anatoly Kuleshov, died. Both worked in the group for almost 20 years. The new bass player of the group was Dmitry Streltsov, who previously worked in the group “My Michelle”.

Current group lineup:

• Nikolay Rastorguev - vocals (1989-present)
• Vitaly Loktev - keyboards, button accordion (1990-present)
• Alexander Erokhin - drums (1991-present)
• Sergey Pereguda - guitar (1993-2002, 2009-present)
• Dmitry Streltsov - bass guitar (2016-present)
• Alexey Tarasov - backing vocals (2005-present)
• Pavel Suchkov - backing vocals (2012-present)
• Alexey Kantur - backing vocals (2012-present)

), until the final verdict was to appoint Matvienko’s former “subordinate” from work in the ensemble “Leisya, Song” Nikolai Rastorguev to this position. By the way, the song "Uncle Vasya" from the repertoire “Leisya, song” performed by Rastorguev was included in the first record “Lube”.

1989

The first songs recorded for the still unnamed group were “Lyubertsy”, Dusya-aggregat and “Old Man Makhno”. Work on them began on January 14, 1989 in the Sound studio (headed by Andrey Lukinov). The following took part in the work: guitarist of the group “Mirage” Alexey Gorbashov, guitarist, Lyubertsy resident by registration and by conviction Viktor Zastrov, tenor Anatoly Kuleshov and bass Alexey Tarasov, vocalist Nikolai Rastorguev and Igor Matvienko himself were invited to record the choir. From this day on, it was decided to keep chronology and consider this day the official birthday of “Lube”.

The texts for the debut works of “Lube” were written by the poet Alexander Shaganov, who established himself by working with the hard group “Black Coffee” (in particular, "Vladimir Rus'") and Dmitry Malikov ( "Till tomorrow"), as well as the Siberian poet from Tomsk Mikhail Andreev, who wrote for the Matvienkov group “Class” and the Leningrad group “Forum”. Later, other songs were recorded: "Dusya-aggregate", "Atas", "Don't ruin it, guys", etc. In the same year the group’s first tour took place.

The name of the group was invented by Nikolai Rastorguev, for whom the word “lyube” has been familiar since childhood - in addition to the fact that the musician lives in Lyubertsy, near Moscow, in Ukrainian this word means “any, every, different,” but, according to Nikolai Rastorguev, every listener can interpret the name of the group the way he wants.

The first composition of the group was as follows: Alexander Nikolaev - bass guitar, Vyacheslav Tereshonok - guitar, Rinat Bakhteev - drums, Alexander Davydov - keyboards. True, the group did not last long with this composition - after a year there was a change of musicians. The first tour of "Lube" began at the end of March 1989. They were also joined by the lead singer of the "Class" group Oleg Katsura. Concerts took place in Pyatigorsk and Zheleznovodsk. The first concerts were not successful and were held in empty halls.

In December 1989, an invitation was received to perform in “Christmas Meetings” by Alla Pugacheva, at which Rastorguev put on a military tunic of the 1939 model to perform the song “Atas”.

A figure in a military tunic, riding breeches, and boots. This is how Nikolai Rastorguev appeared on stage. Many then considered him a retired military man. In fact, he didn't even serve in the army. And the military uniform became an attribute of the stage image. The idea belongs to Alla Borisovna Pugacheva. She once said at “Christmas Evenings”: “What did they wear after the war? Zheglov, Sharapov... tunics, boots.” They rented it from the Soviet Army Theater and the image remained for 10 years.

1990

The first song of the group "Lube", which became a laureate of the Song of the Year festival, is "Atas".
Then the filming took place in the Ostankino studio. And by the way our song sounded,
how Kolya and the musicians of the Lyube group performed, how the audience applauded,
When we received our diplomas, I got the impression that
that among all the songs that were performed at the festival,
among all the songs of that year; the song "Atas" was the brightest...

Alexander Shaganov (www.radiodacha.ru; 08/31/2010)

The first year of the group’s creative activity was marked by the musicians’ appearance on the stage and appearance on television screens. The team became recognizable, performed in programs broadcast throughout the country: in the television program “What, Where, When”; in the program “Christmas Meetings” by Alla Pugacheva. Lyube becomes a laureate of the annual all-Union song competition “Song of the Year” (in 1990, Lyube closed the final New Year’s program of the competition with a song "Atas").

1991

1992

The album itself was released on May 10, 2000, and on May 13 a solo concert took place in Moscow, at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex, dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the group, at which songs from the new album and the best songs for 10 years were presented (a total of 30 songs were performed). The concert lasted more than 2.5 hours. The album turned out to be diverse, most of the songs were hits. Ten years - ten songs.

Based on the text and music, all songs are recognizable in the “Lube” style. The use of wind instruments in recording songs became an innovation for the group's repertoire; for this purpose, a wind group was assembled (the same group was used in the anniversary concert). The famous accordionist Evgeniy Baskakov and other musicians also took part in the recording. The recording was made at the Mosfilm studio. A video clip was shot for the song "Soldier" chronicling wars over the years. Later, for this song, “Lube” will receive a prize as one of the best songs of 2000 at the Golden Gramophone awards. The prize was presented to the then commander of the 58th Army, Vladimir Shamanov. A video was also shot for the song “Let’s Break (Opera)”, which became the soundtrack and commercial for the TV series “Deadly Force”. For the first time on the Russian audio market, the Igor Matvienko Production Center will introduce a combined digital recording system. The CD will contain the album, video clip and information about the album in digital form. The album's artwork is presented in the form of newspaper strips with information about the band, recordings and interviews with band members. At the same time, the group has an information page on the Internet on the website of the Igor Matvienko Production Center.

2001 - 2002

Among the highlights of the group’s 2001, it is worth noting the live concert “Lube” on Red Square, which took place on Victory Day, May 9. In addition, on November 8, 2001, President V.V. Putin signed a decree “On the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art,” in which he appointed Nikolai Rastorguev one of the cultural advisers. In the same year, for the documentary "Russian Army", television producers from the UK bought from the group the rights to excerpts from the songs "Soon demobilization" and "Combat". The film “Russian Army” some time after the end of filming was aired on Channel 4 of English TV.

On November 1, 2001, the collection “Collected Works. Volume 2". It includes songs not included in the first disc "Collected Works", as well as new songs: "Carry Me, River" from the film "Border. Taiga Romance" (dir. A. Mitta) and V. Vysotsky's song "Song about the stars." Now fans have the opportunity to put the second volume of “Collected Works” on their shelves.

On February 23, 2002, the song was broadcast for the first time and a video was shown for the song “Come on for...” written by Igor Matvienko (for the first time for “Lube” he acted simultaneously as the author of music and lyrics). The song was recorded in the style of a rhyming radio report on the history of Russian wars of different years. It was immediately received by the public, took the first line of the charts and ultimately became the best song of the year. The album of the same name "Let's go for..." was released in March 2002, and already on March 18, 19, 20 the band performed at the State Central Concert Hall "Russia" with a new program. The album was recorded in the retro style of the 1960-1970s and was divided into two parts: the first “village” - the main songs: “Birches”, “Mowing”, “Carry Me, River”, the second “urban” with typical songs of the style those years: “Two Girlfriends”, “The Guitar Sings”. To bring the sound closer to a retrospective, vintage guitars, microphones, and an electric organ were used, and an MCI console from the 1970s was specially purchased for mixing. Part of the recording was done in the old Mosfilm tone studio (a characteristic focus on past films). The result was pop-rock, which was widely used by Soviet VIA. The ensemble "Russia" directed by N.N. was invited to record parts of folk instruments. Stepanova. The album also contains the romance “It Was, It Was” based on the poems of N. Gumilyov and the song “Grandma” recorded with the children’s choir of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. The songs, sound style, album cover design - everything pointed to a “retro” move.

In September 2002, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, while on vacation in the city of Sochi, attended a concert of the Lyube group in the Festivalny concert hall. The President personally thanked Nikolai Rastorguev for the concert and invited the Lyube group to visit him at the Bocharov Ruchey residence, where Lyudmila Putina met them and invited them to tea.

In October 2002, the soloist of "Lube" Nikolai Rastorguev was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. One of the first was a congratulation from Joseph Kobzon, who wrote in a telegram: “Nikolai, you became a people’s person a long time ago. Thanks to the President and the Government for officially recognizing you as a people’s person!” On October 22, 2002, the collection “Anniversary. Best Songs,” a live album on two discs, was released. All songs were recorded at a “live” concert at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex in May 2000 and two pence “Come on for...” and “Carry me, river” were added live from a solo concert in March 2002. With the release of this album, guitarist Sergei Pereguda left the group for several years and moved to Canada.

2003 - 2005

In 2003, the Lyube group participated in the election campaign of the Rodina bloc. During this period, Nikolai Rastorguev recorded the previously performed song “Birches” in a duet with Sergei Bezrukov for the TV series “Plot”.

At the V award ceremony of the Russian recording industry "Record-2003" in November 2003, the album "Come on for..." was recognized as "Album of the Year", which stayed at the top of the sales charts for almost the entire 2002.

In 2004, the Lube group celebrates 15 years since its formation. As part of the anniversary, it is planned to release two albums and a series of concerts, the first of which will be dedicated to Defender of the Fatherland Day. The first album was a collection of the best military songs “Guys of our regiment”, which collected the best songs of the group on military topics. The title song was a song based on the poems of O. Mars “Meadow Grass”. The collection included songs “Lube” on a military theme, songs about the war by various authors and performers, and as a bonus the song “Birches” was recorded in a duet with S. Bezrukov. As a bonus video, a studio version of the video "Let's go for..." was presented. For the design of the album, photographs of soldiers from one of the units of the Russian Army taken for the magazine "Russian View" were taken (photographer Vladimir Vyatkin. Later, the servicemen recognized themselves on the covers of the album and came at the Lyube concert they talked about it with pride.

In the same year, musicians of the Lyube group Anatoly Kuleshov (home master), Vitaly Loktev (keyboard instruments) and Alexander Erokhin (percussion instruments) were awarded the titles of Honored Artists of the Russian Federation.

As part of the anniversary program, the second album was the release of the album "Rasseya" with new songs. The release took place on February 15, 2005. The music for the album was written by composer Igor Matvienko. The authors of most song tests are poets Alexander Shaganov, Mikhail Andreev, Pavel Zhagun. The main songs of the album were the title track “Scattering” and “Don’t look at the clock.” The style of the album follows a historical timeline. "Lube" traditionally raise the historical theme of the country from different eras, this is expressed even in the design of the disc - the cover is a historical map of the Russian Empire. The disc features duets by Nikolai Rastorguev with Nikita Mikhalkov (the song “My Horse”), the previously performed song “Birches” with Sergei Bezrukov, recorded for the 30th anniversary of the special unit “Alpha” together with the officers of this group, the song “On the Tall Grass” and the song “Clear Falcon”, which the Lyube group recorded with Sergei Mazaev and Nikolai Fomenko. The album also included: a cover version of the group's early hit - "Old Man Makhno", the song "Sister" by an unknown author from the time of the 1st World War and "Anthem of Russia" in a rock arrangement. As a bonus video, the disc included clips for the songs: “Birches” and “Through the Tall Grass.”

With the release of the album, a series of concerts were held at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall. In addition to new and old well-known songs, the concert included many duet compositions with Sergei Mazaev and Nikolai Fomenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, the Ivanushki International group, officers of the Alpha group, and the Pesnyary ensemble. And the song “Carry Me, River (Beauty)” was performed by the composer and artistic director of the group, Igor Matvienko, together with the soloist “Lube”.

2006 - 2009

According to the research holding ROMIR Monitoring for January 2006, 17% of respondents named “Lube” the best pop group, second and third places were taken by the groups “Tea for Two” and “VIA Gra”. As it turned out, the work of the Lyube group is liked mainly by middle-aged men and people with high incomes. The direction of the group's musical creativity was gradually adjusted, which in the mid-1990s touched on current military rock themes and courtyard chanson, which largely reworked the traditions of Soviet pop music.

At the end of 2006, on New Year's Eve, the Lyube group presented a new song, “Muscovites,” which was also included in a number of New Year’s programs. With this song, work on a new album begins, which will last more than two years.

In 2007, to mark the 50th anniversary of Nikolai Rastorguev, a concert was held at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Lube's audiobook "Complete Works" was released. A full-length publication with the history of the creation of the group, interviews with its members, interesting biographical facts, photographs and much more. As an appendix, the book includes 8 numbered albums of the group, thus containing all officially published songs and all information about “Lube” in one publication. A “live” live concert on two discs “In Russia” was also released, recorded in 2005 at solo concerts at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall. As bonuses, two new songs were presented on each disc: “Muscovites” and “If”. In the same year, a collection of video clips of the group throughout its history and a video recording of the anniversary concert for the 10th anniversary of the group in 2000 were presented on two video discs. Nikolai Rastorguev's solo album with songs "The Beatles" was released in a separate edition; the album is a reissue of the 1996 album "Four Nights in Moscow". with additional tracks and was called "Birthday (With Love)".

In November 2008, music lovers and fans of the group’s work had the opportunity to put on their shelves the third volume of “Collected Works” (the first and second were published in 1997 and 2001). The band’s new album includes hits from the albums: “Atas”, “Who said that we lived badly..?”, “Lube Zone”, “Combat”, “Songs about people”, “Come on for..”, “Scattering” . In addition, the disc presented two new songs of the group recorded in 2008 - “Zaimka” and “My Admiral”. The song “My Admiral” was included in the soundtrack to the film “Admiral”, which tells about the fate of Admiral Kolchak. PS with the release of this album, guitarist Yuri Rymanov leaves the group, having worked in “Lube” for 10 years, he decides to pursue a solo career.

In January 2009, the Lyube group turned 20 years old. At the beginning of the year, the release of a new album dedicated to this event was announced. In February, shortly before the premiere of the album, Nikolai Rastorguev visited the press center of Komsomolskaya Pravda:

Characterizing the album, Rastorguev named some songs already well known to radio listeners, for example, “Zaimka”, “If ...”, “My Admiral”, “Muscovites”, while emphasizing that there are also many completely new songs - “Verka”, “Svoi” ", "The Dawn", "Calendar" and others. As he himself admitted in an interview with the Novgorod newspaper Prospekt, the album, in his opinion, turned out great. Composer Igor Matvienko calls the album introverted and personal, because many of the songs there are dedicated to love for a woman. According to Rastorguev, the musicians recorded “The Own” for about a year, so they had enough time to select songs, choose arrangements and work quietly in the studio.

The album contains duets with Grigory Leps, Nikita Mikhalkov and Victoria Daineko, while all duet compositions were recorded in the album and in solo performance. For the first time in the history of the group, the recording was made only in the studio of the Igor Matvienko Production Center (with the exception of recording drums in the "Vintage studio"). Guitarist Sergei Pereguda returned from Canada and took part in the recording of the album. Also, famous musicians, both those who had previously worked and those new, working with the Igor Matvienko PC, were invited to record. In July, a video clip was shot for the song “A Dawn” with the participation of Dmitry Dyuzhev and Sergei Bezrukov, and the song itself became the soundtrack to the film “High Security Vacation.”

On February 22 and 23, 2009, the anniversary concerts “Lube. Its 20 years.” A new program and the best songs of 20 years were presented. The scenery was created especially for the anniversary concert by production designer Dmitry Muchnik. Five-meter high letters “Lube” with collages of photographs of the group were installed on the stage, and the background for the large-scale decoration was a huge screen on which chronicles of the group were broadcast, as well as various images that changed depending on the song: periodically sea waves appeared on the screen, then forests, then retro photographs. After the main solo concert, the group went on a concert tour to numerous cities in Russia, near and far abroad. During the Easter break, in April 2009, while returning from the Easter service, the choirmaster and backing vocalist of the group, Anatoly Kuleshov, who had worked in “Lube” for 20 years since its founding, died in a car accident.

At the beginning of December, a vote was opened on the website of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper for the most popular people of the year. 290,802 people took part in it. Readers of "KP" named "Lube" the group of the year, giving it 28% of their votes.

2010 - 2012 Present day

In 2010, guitarist Alexey Khokhlov left the group after working in Lyube for 10 years.

Currently the group is touring in Russia, near and far abroad. He is the owner of a number of titles and awards, as well as a participant and laureate of many song competitions, festivals and concerts. In 2010, Nikolai Rastorguev became a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth convocation from the Stavropol Territory, replacing United Russia deputy Sergei Smetanyuk, who was appointed Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District. Nikolai Rastorguev became a member of the State Duma Committee on Culture. In this regard, the group holds concerts and takes part in actions of the ruling party United Russia and the youth movement Young Guard.

In February 2012, a concert of the Lyube group was held at Crocus Citi Hall to mark the anniversary of Nikolai Rastorguev (55 years old). Pop, television and political stars took part in the concert. This date was timed to coincide with the release of a collection of the best songs of the Lyube group on two discs called “55” (in honor of the anniversary date).

In the same month, the group "Lube" together with the groups "Korni" and "In2Nation" (all are projects of the PC Igor Matvienko) recorded the song "Simply Love" especially for the film "August. Eighth" (directed by Dzhanik Fayziev). Later, a video clip was shot for it.

There are plans to record a new album in 2013.

Composition of the group

Artistic director, producer, arranger - composer Igor Matvienko

• Vitaly Loktev - keyboards, button accordion
• Sergey Pereguda - guitar
• Alexander Erokhin - drums
• Alexey Tarasov - backing vocals

Almost all of the group's songs were written by Igor Matvienko (music), Alexander Shaganov (lyrics) and Mikhail Andreev (lyrics).

Former members

• Rinat Bakhteev - drums (1989)
• Alexander Davydov - keyboards (1989)
• Yuri Ripyakh - drums (1990-1991) moved to produce A. Sviridova
• Alexander Weinberg - bass guitar, lead guitar (1990-1992) organized gr. “Our Cause”, Russian statesman and politician.
• Oleg Zenin - backing vocals (1991-1992) organized gr. “Our Business” (together with A. Weinberg)
• Vyacheslav Tereshonok - guitar (1989-1993) died (presumably from drugs)
• Sergey Bashlykov - bass guitar (1991-1993) moved to Germany, opened a guitar school
• Evgeny Nasibulin - backing vocals (1991-1994) moved to the choir. Pyatnitsky
• Alexander Nikolaev - bass guitar (1989-1996) died in a car accident
• Yuri Rymanov - guitar (1998-2008)
• Anatoly Kuleshov - backing vocals (1989-2009) died in a car accident
• Alexey Khokhlov - guitar (2000-2010)

Discography

Studio albums:

• - Who said that we lived badly..?

The idea of ​​creating the Lyube group belonged to producer and composer Igor Matvienko, who at that time worked at the Record Studio of Popular Music. In 19871988 he wrote music for debut songs based on poems by poets Alexander Shaganov and Mikhail Andreev. In those same years, the permanent leader of the group, soloist Nikolai Rastorguev, was also found. Perhaps it was he who came up with the idea for the name of the group, since he was from Lyubertsy, near Moscow. The name of the group is, of course, associated with the popular Luber youth movement in those years, the ideas of which were reflected in the early work of the group.

On February 14, 1989, the first songs of LYUBE “Lyubertsy” and “Old Man Makhno” were recorded in the “Sound” studio and in the studio of the Moscow Palace of Youth. Participating in this work were Igor Matvienko, Nikolai Rastorguev, guitarist of the Mirage group Alexey Gorbashov and Lyubertsy resident (musician of the Lyubertsy restaurant) Viktor Zastrov. In the same year, the group’s first tour and performance at Alla Pugacheva’s “Christmas Meetings” took place, at which Rastorguev, on the advice of Alla Borisovna, put on a military tunic to perform the song “Atas”, and since then it has become an important attribute of his stage image.

The direction of the group's musical creativity was gradually adjusted, touching on current military rock themes in the mid-1990s and courtyard chanson, which largely reworked the traditions of the Soviet stage.

Nikolay Rastorguev Honored Artist (1997) and People's Artist of Russia (2002). The group's musicians Anatoly Kuleshov, Vitaly Loktev and Alexander Erokhin were also awarded the title of Honored Artist (2004).