Group "Resurrection" - love that never ends

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

"Eh, - as the unforgettable Vladimir Semenovich sang, - where are my seventeen years?" They stayed where "the forgotten song is carried by the breeze…" And now you catch yourself grumbling: the youth is not the same now, and their songs are somehow incomprehensible. And you teach your son to listen to the hits performed by the Resurrection group: “Listen, listen, what a solo, solo…”

For me personally, "Resurrection" is inextricably linked with the name of Konstantin Nikolsky, although he appeared in the group only at the end of 1980. However, his songs have been performed almost since the founding of the band - since 1979. Andrey Sapunov, who is well acquainted with Nikolsky and his songs, contributed to this. Here is the first composition of the members of the team, proudly called "Rock Group" Sunday ": Alexey Romanov, Sergey Kavagoe, Evgeny Margulis, Andrey Sapunov. In January 1980, Sergey Kuzmenok (trumpet, saxophone) joined them. The flight was swift, butshort-lived: in the fall of 1980, the team broke up.

But the group "Resurrection" did not finish its story on this. Konstantin Nikolsky, Andrey Sapunov and Mikhail Shevyakov continued to rehearse together. The case was decided by Nikolsky's phone call to Romanov with an offer to join. The end of 1980 can be considered the second birthday of "Resurrection".

Sound engineer A. Arutyunov noted this period of the band's existence as the time of the beginning of serious professional work. Konstantin at that time was a student at the Gnessin Musical College, he demanded full dedication at rehearsals. I quote Nikolsky himself: "I played quite a bit of notes, but it was quite stylish, that's all." And so it turned out that any song of the group "Sunday", performed and recorded by this "golden" composition, still does not leave the listener indifferent. Confess, hand on heart, that something hurts in your chest and in your throat when you listen to "Nightbird" or "In my soul …"

In the nineties, an attempt was made to reassemble the team in this line-up, but it was not crowned with success. Romanov and Sapunov continued to perform Nikolsky's songs in other groups.

For the first time I saw Konstantin Nikolsky "live" at a concert at the Sports Palace in Chelyabinsk in the summer of 1987. Then his group was called "Mirror of the World", but anyway, when we came to the concert, we expected songs from him that the group performed"Sunday". Our expectations were fully justified: we heard "One look back", and "Musician", and "Mirror of the World", of course. After the concert, we walked through the night city and shared our impressions endlessly.

For some reason, there is an opinion that today's youth is no longer interested in the Resurrection group. I wouldn't be in a hurry to agree to this. An example from life: at a bike rally in Irbit, such an age-old biker uncle performed acoustically near the fire at night near the fire "My friend, an artist …" The people gathered around the people did not have a consensus on the authorship of the song, and my son flashed erudition: "So this is or Nikolsky!" The performer was very surprised: "How do you know?" Yes, everything is very simple: if the guy's parents at one time listened to these songs, then, willy-nilly, love for Nikolsky's works was transferred to him.