Alexey Romanov with his wife. Alexey Romanov: “Anya Pletneva and I love each other! Discography in the Vintage group

Name Alexey Romanov familiar to any person, more or less versed in Russian rock music. Group Sunday was and remains one of the recognized values ​​of the genre; in addition, Romanov played a leading role in a group no less popular in the Soviet Union SW. Despite the fact that the last studio work of the Resurrection was released already in 2003, Romanov does not stop actively touring. And now a book of his poems is being published - as popular songs, and unknown, but no less self-sufficient. On the eve of the presentation of the publication sounds got in touch with Alexey and found out about the upcoming edition, the current state of the Resurrection and the musician's favorite guitars.

sounds: Many artists are now turning to crowdfunding on a regular basis, and this is your first time using it, as far as I know. What are your impressions?
Alexei A: To be honest, I didn't do much of it. It does Andrey Kharchenko, my friend and, concurrently, an experienced producer who is trying to help me. Quite quickly he managed the whole process of preparing the book. I didn't even expect it to work at all. But somehow everything worked out, and on December 19 there will be a presentation. In principle, it is more important for me to play a concert, but Andrey considers it a book presentation. According to an old production habit, he decided to play smart

sounds: His initiative?
Alexei: Yes, he invented everything, found a proofreader, sorted it all out while in London, attracted someone from Amsterdam ... It seems, in general, that everything happened by itself.
sounds: Did you take part in the preparation?
Alexei: I gave a selection of poems. And we also selected photos, looked at the layout of the pages, I made small remarks - I could mix up the word, write something wrong.
sounds: What time period did the poems get into the book?
Alexei: From the Creation of the World to the Present Day.
sounds: Are there any written a long time ago?
Alexei: Relatively recent ... I'm not very serious about this, something will turn out - I'll write it down. If you like it - remember that it is.

sounds: Recently, in a series of books about Russian rock, an edition about you was published, written by Andrey Burlaka. Have you read this book?
Alexei: Burlaka and I have known each other for a long time - to be honest, I'm surprised that he did not contact me directly. I could have given the manuscript to read. I didn’t see it in my eyes, but those who read it told me that nonsense was written there.

sounds: What is the state of your projects and the projects of the "Resurrection" musicians now? Are there any live programs or studio work being prepared?
Alexei: So far, we have not started anything special, I am engaged in such free music making, I have a concert version of a trio: a bass player and a drummer accompany. Recently, I was also invited to perform with Araks. The program is mainly from Antonov's songs, etc. The singer is Anatoly Alyoshin, which is wonderful in itself. Seven songs were made with me, and I enjoy skating with them, because this is a professional band. Well, I've never spoken so loudly before.

sounds: Do you go to concerts of other artists? Something from your music recent times impressed as an author and as a listener?
Alexei: I am constantly making some discoveries. True, for the most part, I fill in the gaps in classical music. Well, jazz and blues. Of our artists, Romario is now interesting to me.
sounds: This is from relatively young, it turns out.
Alexei: Everything is relative. Artists age quickly, and then stay young for a long time. Concerts: I don't go to concerts very often and quite by chance, although I'm constantly invited back and forth. Either laziness, or something else ... But it happens, yes.
sounds: According to Facebook, you travel a lot. Is it a hobby for you, an object of interest, something inspiring?
Alexei: Both that, and another, and the third. We have been locked up all our conscious youth. Now there is an opportunity to get visas for several years, and as soon as a free penny appears, my wife and I try to sneak away somewhere.

sounds: What do you think, are cases similar to those that happened to rock musicians in the pre-perestroika period real? Soviet time- with you, for example?
Alexei: Not much has changed for me, to be honest. I still see that anyone can be captured and imprisoned for anything, even for hijacking spaceships.

sounds: As far as I know, you collect guitars, tell us about the most valuable exhibit for you personally.
Alexei: Not so big. I got rid of some of the obvious junk... I have an amazing Martin Dreadnought D-42 hybrid model Peter Frampton. It was recreated based on his missing tour guitar. It is signed - inside there is Frampton's autograph. And it's one of only 70 made, so it's a limited edition. I rarely wear it somewhere, but recently I took part in the recording of a couple of songs with it Gennady Ryabtsev (multi-instrumentalist and member Dynamics and groups Yuri Antonov, now Hieromonk German, regent male choir Valaam Monastery- approx. sounds). It turned out that she sounds amazing in the microphone - I did not expect this from her. I play this guitar at home, train, compose, but even in combat conditions it proved to be gorgeous. The rest of the tools are cheap. There are favorites. Fender Bullet Deluxe 81, I carry it to Araks concerts. On Sunday I play a fairly rare Gibson. It is not very expensive, but the model itself is interesting - with two cutouts and a small "head".

Alexey Romanov: creative evening and presentation of the book of poems "All over again"
Moscow, central house writers

You can't read or write in the bullpen. There you can only count bedbugs and watch how they move sunbeams. And alone, I embarked on my favorite oriental affairs - meditating, rising above the floor, recalling my life in detail ... I had romantic hopes that I would compose something there, but nothing happened. By the way, in prison I had to undergo an examination for insanity - fate provided the opportunity to hang out. But on reflection, I realized that a camp is better than a madhouse. They leave the camp sooner or later, but never leave the madhouse. It resides within a person.

Melik-Pashaev and some of the musicians left; Golutvin and others continued to wait for Romanov, prepared concert program"Seasons", based on the poems of Yuri Levitansky and others famous poets. When recording the album, Romanov, who returned from prison (who sang and played the bass guitar), was able to offer only one of his new song- "My joy is in a hurry."

In 1985, he became a member of the project "In the same rhythm" organized by Melik-Pashayev. Vladimir Kuzmin also participated in the project; when Kuzmin leaves, bass player Yevgeny Kazantsev, who played with him, begins to accompany Romanov. Alexey played in 1987 at dances in Sokolniki, while working at the Perovsky Dosug: “It was necessary to find a job, otherwise you could get a criminal article for parasitism. A marvelous opportunity arose to spend the winter and spring rehearsing with friends in the Von Meck mansion, a few new gizmos came through, we still gave a couple of concerts, and then the state-owned Vermont burned down and we were fired. "Apples in the Snow" categorically refused to perform ... ".

Alexey Vorobyov - Alisa Music: Romanov Alexey Dmitrievich Lyrics: Rakova Ekaterina Sergeevna, Kovalev Alexander Valerievich Director: Dmitry Zakharov.

In 1987, Romanov again reunited with Golutvin in the SV group, bringing Kazantsev there as well; on this occasion, the album "Return" is released. In 1990, after recording the only vinyl record SV "Soldier of the Universe" Romanov, Kazantsev, drummer Yuri Kitaev decide to perform new songs together and leave the group.

In 1991 Kazantsev was replaced by Andrey Sapunov, and a year later Kitaev was replaced by his son famous singer Andrey Kobzon. The trio gives concerts, takes part in the TV show organized by Alexander Barykin " living water", which promoted the performance of music not to a phonogram; Romanov sings there his song close to punk rock “My last love(nicknamed Death). However, the trio managed to release the Seven Things album on a CD only in 1995, a year after the Resurrection group began to exist again. Also taking part in the recording (as a saxophonist) Vladimir Presnyakov Sr. and the last keyboard player SV Andrey

Miansarov.

Romanov wrote the song "Bright Room" not on his own poems, but on the poet's poem Silver Age Mikhail Kuzmin. Six of Romanov's songs were sung by the author himself, and only one (“I have nothing to console you with”) was sung by Sapunov.

Aleksey Romanov remains the leader of Resurrection to this day.

Personal life

Alla Romanova - ex-wife, later the wife of Andrei Makarevich

Larisa Romanova - current wife, member of the group Los De Moscu

Discography

Resurrection group

;Studio albums

• 1979-1980 - Resurrection 1 ( in 1993, a remastered re-release was released on a double disc containing songs from the album "79" and recordings of 80, aka "Who is to blame? / Resurrection 79-80". In 2002, a remastered version of the album "79" was released.)
• 1981 - Sunday 2 (remastered reissue released in 1992)
• 2001 - All over again (new songs + new recordings of songs from different years)
• 2003 - Slowly

;Live albums

• 1994 - Concert. DK Mehteh (1982)
• 1995 - We love you - double, recording of a concert in the hall "Russia" June 16, 1994
• 1995 - More alive than all living - recording of a concert in the hall "Promotion club" 28.03.95
• 1998 - Live Collection - TV concert recording
• 2000 - 50 for two - joint concert with the group Mashina Vremya (20 years of the Resurrection group and 30 years of the Vremya Machine) in the Olimpiysky sports complex
• 2003 - Slowly Live - concert-premiere of the album "Slowly" in the USZ "Friendship" on March 5, 2003
• 2005 - Look how I live - concert, published by Soyuz Studio
• 2005 - I'm used to wandering alone - concert in Novokuznetsk, published by Soyuz Studio

;Compilations

• 1996 - Legends of Russian rock, "Resurrection", issue 1
• 2002 - Legends of Russian rock, "Resurrection", issue 2

Trio: Romanov - Sapunov - Kobzon

;Studio albums

• 1995 - 7 things

Solo work

;Studio albums

• 1994 - Sunlit road

;Live albums

• 1994 - Acoustic concert (Alexey Romanov and Konstantin Nikolsky)

Group "SV"

;Studio albums

• 1983 - rejoice
• 1984 - Moscow time
• 1987 - Return
• 1988 - Do your thing
• 1990 - soldier of the universe

;Live albums

• 1990 - Concert dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the group Resurrection
• 1991 - "Time Machine" - XX!

Alexey Romanof (Perepelkin)(born April 14, Moscow) - Russian singer and composer, soloist Russian pop group"Vintage". Former soloist Russian group"Amega" (1998-2005). Alexey is the author of almost all the songs of the Vintage group.

Amega Group

The team was formed by producer and composer Andrei Grozny. Alexei Romanov (Perepelkin) was supposed to be the leader of the group. But in 2001, with a scandal, he leaves the project in solo work.But in 2005, Alexey Romanov returned to the group for a short time, but a week before the filming of the video for the song “Running Away”, he unexpectedly announced his departure. The group released hits that became loved by the whole country due to the fact that their work was distinguished by deep meaningful texts by the poetess Tatyana Ivanova and original arrangements by Andrei the Terrible and sound producer Sergei Kharuta. At the end of October 2001, MTV reported that Alexei Romanov had left the group. He returned to Russian scene in September 2002. Before that, he spent about a year in Spain, where he lived with friends and prepared his own own project. In 2003, Alexei released his own EP "Nunca Olvidare: I'll Never Forget".

Group "Vintage"

In 2006, together with the ex-soloist of the Lyceum group, Anna Pletneva, he created the Vintage group. The history of the emergence of the group from the lips of the soloists sounds something like this: Anna was in a hurry for an important meeting, but her plans were not destined to come true. She collided with the car of Alexei Romanov. While the artists were waiting for the traffic police, they made a mutual decision to create a pop group.

According to Alexei Romanov, after meeting with Pletneva, the group worked in the studio for six months, trying to find their own sound: “We really locked ourselves in the studio. We sat for six months in search of sound. We didn't understand. We were like blind kittens back then. Now, of course, it's cool to remember this. We then created our own new story, which had nothing to do with previous projects. Initially, it was decided to call the team "Chelsea", but then the name "Vintage" was chosen. Alexei said that the group at that time submitted a request to the London law office that owns the Chelsea brand, but after a while they saw on TV how Sergey Arkhipov presented a diploma with the same name to a group from the Star Factory.

Discography in the group "Amega and Solo Album"

• "Up. Part 1 "- 1999
• "Up. Part 2 "- 2000

• EP "Nunca Olvidare: Never Forget" - 2003

Discography in the Vintage group

• "Criminal Love" - ​​2007
• "SEX" - 2009
• "Anechka" - 2011
• "Very Dance" - 2013

• The real name of Alexei is Perepelkin, and "Romanof" is his pseudonym. But according to rumors, Alexei even according to his passport is "Romanof".

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Alexey Romanov. Biography

Alexey Romanov was born in Tyumen. Studied in the nursery music school No. 1 in Tyumen in piano. In 2003, he entered the Tyumen State Institute of World Economy, Management and Law (TGIMEUP), graduating in 2008 with a degree in marketing. During his studies, he continued to study vocals and participated in various vocal competitions.

Higher musical education in the direction of "pop-jazz singing" he decided to receive at the Institute contemporary art, for which he moved to Moscow in 2010. The turning point in the life of Alexei was the successful passage in 2012 of the casting in the musical " Mermaid". In it, Alexei played several roles at once, including the role of Prince Eric.

In 2013, Alexei Romanov began working as a soloist in the project " Show-cabaret "CINEMA"». 2014 was marked by fruitful collaboration with the art group " Choir Turkish”: Alexey performed with this famous band on tour in Israel. In the same year, Alexey received additional education in jazz & soul at the summer school Berkley College of Music (Boston).

In 2015, Alexey got into the television part of the Voice project on Channel One, in which, at blind auditions, he performed the song of the famous American singer Josh Groban You raise me up. In 2016, Alexei took part in the fifth season of the show "

In 1969, together with vocalist and pianist Viktor Kistanov, he organized the duet "Wandering Clouds". "They", as Andrey Makarevich writes, "gently and musically sang the Beatles' songs - it turned out, as they say, one to one - something that" The Machine "could never achieve ...". A year later, a group appeared with the original name "Guys who start playing when the striped hippopotamus crosses the Zambezi River", which, in addition to Romanov and Kistanov, included guitarist Sergei Tsvilikov, bass player Alexander Shadrin and who had previously played in the first line-up of "Time Machine" drummer Yuri Borzov. A year later, the group broke up.

Together with Makarevich, he was expelled from the Institute of Architecture (later both were restored). Makarevich recalls: “...the order came to clear the ranks of Soviet students from hairy evil spirits. I, Leshka Romanov, fell into this category... The installation, of course, was closed, and some idiotic pretext served as the reason for the exclusion... We studied well, had no tails, and the whole story looked crazy. I remember how our fellow students, in a spontaneous herd, rushed to the rector for the truth, and how they came out one by one, hiding their eyes and spreading their arms. I just physically felt how an invisible wall passed between us and them, and after all, Leshka and I were not at all the last guys in the institute party.

From 1974 to the summer of 1975, Romanov was the soloist of The Time Machine, performing with Andrei Makarevich, Alexander Kutikov and Sergei Kavagoe. Makarevich writes: “... Leshka did not feel at ease, although neither he nor we could understand why, in fact. We tried to make some of his songs, and he sang mine somehow wrong - at least it seemed to me so. ... in the end, he disappeared for two days, I went to him, wandered in the dark for a long time Teply Stan, found him at home, some kind of vague conversation took place, from which it turned out that he could not feel his place in our team in any way - and we parted as friends. Among the songs that almost got into the repertoire of "Time Machine" was "I have different songs ..." - a thing with which the first magnetic album "Resurrection" later began.

In 1975, Romanov became the soloist of the Danger Zone group, which, in addition to him, included Alexei Makarevich - lead guitar; Oleg Drukarov - electric organ; Sergey Andreev - bass guitar; Igor Kotlov - drums. In 1976, the group became known as "Kuznetsky Most". The repertoire of the Kuznetsky Most included future famous hits"Resurrection" "Who is to blame?" and "Snow Woman".

In 1979, Sergey Kavagoe and Evgeny Margulis, having left the Time Machine, offered cooperation to Alexei Romanov. Having the ability of an organizer, Kawagoe undertook to find equipment if there was a repertoire. This is how the Resurrection group was born. In the fall of 1980, the first composition of Resurrection broke up; Margulis became the bass player of Araks. Since "Araks" not only performed some of Romanov's songs, but also the musicians of the group wrote songs on his poems, he was listed as the author in "Araks" for some time, and his employment history was in Moscow regional philharmonic society.

Soon "Resurrection" is revived as part of Romanov - Nikolsky - Sapunov - Shevyakov. In 1982, the former manager (formally - artistic director) "Time Machines" Hovhannes Melik-Pashayev offers Romanov to work on the professional stage.

Romanov recalls this: “... Melik-Pashayev's proposal turned out to be very useful. Little kept me in the squad with Nikolsky ... I spent much more time in the company of Vadim Golutvin, who then left the Araks, the Melik-Pashayev group gathered around our alliance. Subsequently, this group became known as SV.

In 1983 General Secretary Central Committee of the CPSU and former leader KGB Yuri Andropov ordered a re-examination of all closed cases, among which was the case of the “leftist concert” of Resurrection. The charge was brought against Romanov and the group's sound engineer Alexander Arutyunov.

In August, Romanov and Arutyunov were arrested. They were charged with private entrepreneurial activity in the form of ticket sales for one of the concerts. Aleksey Romanov spent nine months in Butyrskaya prison (a television set, a player, a Kometa tape recorder, two armchairs, his guitar - a red Fender - and all the money from the passbook) were confiscated from the musician.

In May 1984, the case was submitted to the court for consideration. The meeting was held in the city of Zheleznodorozhny. The court passed a sentence: Romanov - three and a half years of probation and confiscation of property, Arutyunov - three years in prison.

Melik-Pashaev and some of the musicians left; Golutvin and others continued to wait for Romanov, preparing the concert program "The Seasons", based on the poems of Yuri Levitansky and other famous poets. When recording the album, Romanov, who returned from prison (who sang and played the bass guitar), was able to offer only one of his new songs - “My joy is running”.

In 1985, he became a member of the project "In the same rhythm" organized by Melik-Pashayev. Vladimir Kuzmin also participated in the project; when Kuzmin leaves, bass player Yevgeny Kazantsev, who played with him, begins to accompany Romanov. In 1987, Romanov again reunited with Golutvin in the SV group, bringing Kazantsev there as well; on this occasion, the album "Return" is released.

In 1990, after recording the only vinyl record of SV "Soldier of the Universe", Romanov, Kazantsev, drummer Yuri Kitaev decide to perform new songs together and leave the group.

In 1991, Andrei Sapunov replaced Kazantsev, and a year later, Kitaev was replaced by the son of the famous singer Andrei Kobzon. The trio gives concerts, takes part in the TV program “Living Water” organized by Alexander Barykin, which promoted the performance of music not to the phonogram; Romanov sings there his song close to punk rock "My last love (nicknamed Death)". However, the trio managed to release the Seven Things album on a CD only in 1995, a year after the Resurrection group began to exist again. Also taking part in the recording (as a saxophonist) Vladimir Presnyakov Sr. and the last keyboardist of the SV Andrey Miansarov.

Romanov wrote the song "Bright Room" not on his own poems, but on a poem by the Silver Age poet Mikhail Kuzmin. Six of Romanov's songs were sung by the author himself, and only one (“I have nothing to console you with”) was sung by Sapunov.

Aleksey Romanov remains the leader of Resurrection to this day.

Personal life

Alla Romanova - ex-wife, later wife of Andrei Makarevich

Larisa Romanova - current wife, member of the Los De Moscu group

Filmography

Acting work:

• 2010 - Legend of Dvid Island - Director: Anario Mammadov [specify]