"My Bright Star": The Story of the Song That Became a Perennial Catchphrase

In 1973 year VIA "Flowers" by Stas Namin was lucky enough to record a song that has become a timeless schlager both in the career of the ensemble and in musical history USSR as a whole! It's about a touching composition "My star is clear"which was born under completely random circumstances. There are many interesting things associated with this song facts, legends and even tragedies. We decided to dispel the myths and evaluate the popular covers and understand why this composition made Alexandra Loseva Every time I drop a man's tear...

Inspiration in one line

The story of this song began in the middle of 60s: it was then that the publication of poem poetesses Olga Fokinato which the composer Vladimir Semyonov I stumbled across it completely by accident at the beginning of 70s. According to Vladimir Konstantinovich, he once looked into a bookstore out of curiosity. Flipping through the pages of Fokina's collection, a line caught his eye "People's songs are different, but mine is one for the ages.". Something about these words hooked the composer, and they soon became the beginning of a cult hit.

TO To Stasu Naminto the leader of the ensemble "Flowers"This song came as accidentally as it was born. At about the same time the band won the win at the amateur art competition. The main prize is. recording of a mignon on Melody! Namin hired several professional musicians for the job, including Sergey Dyachkov. He introduced Anastas Alexeyevich (real name) with Semenov. Thus, a song appeared in the repertoire of the VIA, which became their loudest hit.

Recording through tears

The recording day of "My Bright Star" was accompanied by with tears and scandals. All because of hockey! Later, Namin told me how it was that day that their lead singer Alexander Losev intended to go to a hockey game - the Soviet national team against Canada! A great spectacle, to miss which would be sacrilege! Clearly, Losev... wasn't planning on to work on this important day for the whole country. But Namin had completely different plans...

"We couldn't reschedule the session - there was no such opportunity. And Sashka kept talking about hockey and hockey... I almost had to keep him in the studio by force! The atmosphere was awful: he was very angry and upset... The song didn't work out accordingly. But there was no way out - it took thirty takes, but the recording was done. With tears - Sasha cried and left all the time," Namin recalled.

As a result, the record of VIA "Flowers" was recorded and upon release was a wild success: almost 7 million copies were sold out - a staggering figure for a Soviet ensemble!

Legend and Tragedy

After release, the song quickly has become legendary. One of them said that it was dedicated to the flight attendant Nadezhda KurchenkoThe girl was trying to prevent the death of a woman who, for her heroic courage, paid with her life... aircraft hijackingBut as a result she left this mortal world at the age of 20 years.

However, in the words of authorhe did not dedicate the composition to this girl:

"Of course I knew about this terrible tragedy, but I didn't connect the lyrics to this story when I wrote this song..."

But not only legends, but also personal dramas accompany this great creation. According to Namin, Alexander Losev has been performing this song for a long time. "worse than the record.". But since 1995 it became too personal for the vocalist - unfortunately, his only son was gone. Collie.

"Now this song is symbolic for me. I perform it in memory of my own son...," Losev once said.

Cover versions

The song has become the most authentic schlagerThe song is a great success, and so many artists and bands have performed it or even recorded it. An interesting cover version belongs to To Boris Grebenshchikov:

Peter Yelfimov performed a touching '70s hit on the Main Stage in 2015:

He also presented his version of the Valery Meladze:

This song has also become a hot topic among the very young contestants of the show "Voice. Children":

But no matter how you spin it, you can't be beaten. original is very difficult. Not only the prevailing number of listeners, but also the author himself Vladimir Semyonov - They believe that Alexander Losev was the best performer of this composition none. Unfortunately, the wonderful vocalist is no longer with us: Alexander Nikolayevich passed away in 2004 The year he died of a heart attack, not having lived to his 55th birthday for a few months...