The best songs of Yuri Antonov: singer's biography, history of creation of the songs "No You Are More Beautiful" and "Mirror"

IN THE U.S.S.R. pop song fulfilled various social functions. In particular, it even "helped" in building socialism. The signs of the variety show include the presence of a "number" - a kind of variety show, a special artistic image that is embodied on stage by an individual artist, his unique "creative self."displayed in the suit.

In addition, the nature of the relationship with the audience is very important to the entertainer, as during the course of their performance the artiste often speaks to the audienceand communicating directly with them. Estrada is first and foremost a pro living speeches and concerts.

In the 1970s. n the last century, Soviet song emphasised pop song as one of the main musical genres around which society had to be united. Then new heroes appeared on the stage: Alla Pugacheva, "Pesnyary" and other vocal and instrumental ensembles. About the maestro of Soviet pop music Yuri Antonov and the beginning of his career is in the article.

Why we love Antonov

Yuri Antonov was born in 1945 into a military family and saw the end of the Great Patriotic War. He spent his childhood in a Belarusian village, where he first became acquainted with music. He successfully graduated from music school and entered Molodechno School of Music. music schoolAfter graduating, he worked as a choir director and head of a pop orchestra.

In 1969, the main period in the work of the young guitarist-Antonov, who had no professional musical experience in show business before, began. He was invited to become an instrumentalist-keyboardist in the VIA "Singing Guitars". 1969 was rotary in the career of the future pop maestro. Thanks in large part to Antonov's lyrics, "Singing Guitars" began to become popular, giving more than two hundred concerts a year, gathering a full house and winning the hearts of millions of people.

Since leaving the VIA, Antonov has made a splash solo career. Songs filled with deep meaning and an innovative vision of pop music helped Yuri Mikhailovich to become a Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation.

First hit

A composition that became a real hit in the USSR in 1971has a rather romantic name "You're the most beautiful.". Its young composer Yuri Antonov wrote it in the year of his first stay in the VIA "Singing Guitars" in co-authorship with his friend from "Lenconcert" Irina Bezladnova and a member of the VIA "Dobry Molodtsy" Mikhail Belyakov.

The story of the creation of this composition is quite unique: the melody of the future song fell to Antonov as if "from heaven", while he was travelling with the ensemble on tour to the Republic of Moldova on the train. He demonstrated the idea with his to my friend Irinawho wrote two verses for "No More Beautiful Than You."

"For me, there is no more beautiful you,
But I catch your eye in vain
Like a vision elusive
Every day you pass by...," the song sings.

The most interesting thing on the record "You're the most beautiful." - is that Antonov is the main inventor of this composition, but he did not actually participate in its recording at all. This song became a kind of "a gift." Yuri Mikhailovich to his first band, who let him go free sailing. He left a fragment with a piece of the written song to the bass player Yevgeny Bronevitskywho, six months after the event, remembered it and decided to create a complete composition after all.

"I look at you like a mirror, until I'm dizzy..."

The second song that this article is about is called "Mirror.". In 1977, this song was first performed by another no less popular VIA "Red Poppies". Yuri Antonov in the strict sense of the word is the author of the music, but the lyrics to the song are taken from the work of the songwriter-poet Mikhail TanichMore than 100 of his works have been given a musical form and turned into songs.

"One day Misha brought some mate with him. It was Yuri Antonov, I didn't know him at all at the time... So I was very confused when Misha gave him the manuscript of the future "Mirror". Of course, I didn't believe that some unknown composer could do something with these beautiful verses. But in the end, the next morning we heard a miracle. "The Mirror" sounded incredibly beautiful...," recalled Mikhail Tanich's wife Lidia Kozlova.

As many researchers of Antonov's work have noted, this the composition combined the drive of a pop song, while retaining its unique lyricism.

"I stare at you like a mirror until I'm dizzy.
And I see my love in him, and I think of her.
Let's not see, small, in the mirror image.
Love can be long, but life is even longer...", - the words of the composition read.

Yuri Antonov - a genius composer and a unique person. A true maestro of pop music wrote such hits as "I Remember", "That's How It Is", "Take Care of Women" and many other songs, which are still appreciated in the circles of popular music fans. Antonov even now continues to perform with his concert programme across Russia and delight his favourite fans with a wonderful performance of legendary compositions!