Jack Yeovil - Dark Future 00 by Route 666

Author:Route 666
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

ZeeBeeCee’s Nostalgia Newstrivia:

The 1970s

Tonight, giving his first major tele-interview in ten long annos, we have one of the seminal voices, faces and butts of the ‘70s. Ask anybody over forty, and they’ll be sure to recall that droopy tache, that craggy grin and that battered balalaika. Nobody embodied the ideals and failings of the dream decade more than the style-setting, chart-topping, Soviet singer-songwriter, Andrei Tarkovsky.

Born in Moscow on 4 April 1932 – he’s a moody Aries, fillettes – Andrei studied at the Institute of Oriental Languages and the All-Union State Jazz and Blues School before taking his first gig in 1954, as a geological prospector in Siberia. Two long, cold annos rooting through frozen ground provided him with the material for his autobiographical first album. There Will Be No Leave Today, in 1959. In the ‘60s, he was in the mainstream of Soviet pop music, receiving official approval and Unionwide acclaim for the seminal beetroot beat platters Ivan’s Childhood and Ikons. It was only as the wave of the Sove Sound hit big in the ‘70s that Andrei became the irrepressible and outrageous rebel he remains into the ‘90s.

No matter how gray that moustache, wrinkly those crags or out-of-tune that balalaika, Andrei is still the genius of gloom, internationally hailed by his nickname “the Purge”. Each new departure, new religion or new marriage hits headlines. Before Andrei sits in the Moscow Mud Pit with our chirrupy interactive diva, Lynne Cramer, let’s listen to his first international colossus, from that atomic year of 1972, “Solaris”…

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