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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello, It's me Tilly Riddle, and I like to tell
you about the most clever and the most neat band
of our Soviet rock so called Russian Beetles, the band
called Secret or the Secret.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Snov sad.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
You do again, spankish, dauish and sweetarist.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
May may.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Spagna malubo naama.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Yama who don't tea should be cross? Yeah she's moved.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Yeah yeah r S d C.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
But would marry boosts Billy must really got some.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
N nothing.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Mayalu bo nag.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
But she.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Maylubos spagna.
Speaker 8 (01:46):
Maluoma your teachers father, no bagas yeahs sa.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Alba what ita 's goa.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
The end of all which losapa bad again?
Speaker 9 (02:10):
Yeah, too much?
Speaker 7 (02:11):
It's fine.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
May all you want watch Yamuna.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
May anu wotan basna may lu boyd mayalu wo manaa
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mayah WoT Basa.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
This song was also in an early Beatles like style.
It's about a loving young man who is waiting at
night near his love's windows. Almost a serenade. Let me
tell you the story of this band. They all got
acquainted in lenin Grad Institute of Cinema, Art and Music.
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You know many bands start like this and art institutions.
They organized the band, and at first they were called
the Christian and their first upstage performance was their group
mate's wedding and one of the boys was streaking with
an electricity current out of his fender. In nineteen eighty two,
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they had changed the drummer and also had changed the name.
Now they became Secret.
Speaker 10 (04:29):
Balog Timu Timutu, Dommu saib Sarah Barab Sarah to Mekara Sarimarable, marable,
god sable Sarah Barab Sarah mister Farimarabu cover.
Speaker 11 (05:01):
Takia which shall horrible Misa gusta style, So we all
over again.
Speaker 12 (05:12):
The only moot instruction.
Speaker 10 (05:14):
On the didulum which the Sami moable Marables dom Masad barable, barable.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Your del stever m boom the your deal still in the.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Boonding is NiFe.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
But she knew.
Speaker 10 (05:31):
At last Borable Barabo castlebo morrible Marable sad parapota.
Speaker 12 (05:43):
A baba bad parable.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
No better to keep slavey.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
The troop sich that water say robb.
Speaker 12 (05:59):
Ly Gotti character till the search look.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Timbo timbootootom.
Speaker 10 (06:26):
Sara Sara.
Speaker 13 (06:30):
Yokarva leoga.
Speaker 12 (06:38):
Yogalla move.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
By nineteen eighty three the guitarists also had been changed,
so now all the content and the legendary for were unchangeable.
What to do next surely to get to the rock club,
because every self respecting rock band wanted to enter the
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Leningrad Rock Club. Under the roof of this rock club,
there was no need to fear that you would be
locked for an illegal concert because the rock club Willy
Nilli gave the bands a certain official status. Again, getting
inter rock club automatically contributed to the growth of the
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band's popularity, because the Leningrad get together instantly reacted to
any new name and eagerly absorbed any fresh musical information.
But the rock party had already its own heroes. In
the first place in the hierarchy of Leningrad rock roofs
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or rock bands was of course Akquarium, and only Mike Naumenka,
the leader of Za Park. This band could compare in
popularity with Barris Grimichikov. And it was also Mike who
brought Secret to the rock club and actually brought them
to the first big stage. And later Mike gave them
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his song, and anyway, his song was not his. It
was mostly the t Rex translation, but a dumb talented translation.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
So a pet yess to rock.
Speaker 14 (08:33):
Is a mock.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Now it's boo yeah, blue boo give ogillu blue boo
give ogi.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Yeah, blue boogive ogi.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Yeah, blue blue boo give oogi blue boogie brosther I did.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Not want to be here. Yeah boy the younger, I don't.
Speaker 15 (09:08):
Even playing bad stuboy start dis leg this you do
avent sun, I'm.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Stubboring you by.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
DOLLI this boog give.
Speaker 16 (09:20):
Oog, Believe this boo give again, Believe this boo give
ogg delude this boogi oga believe is booming only the
huge boogi goshiga.
Speaker 17 (09:37):
This you know hell time like me held that who
you have made you like city present, but you know
the whole sing you a scanning ground yellow ball that
most standing be.
Speaker 18 (09:52):
Shoking Yeah Sunglasha, Hey hey million and bag.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
You'll be bog May you be born gay?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Movie? Will you be bogay?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
May you be bore? Game only God be dead. Let
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me live live.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Live me and my Lini.
Speaker 18 (11:05):
Meli Meli, Melioni, Melioni that flowing by Gasti bog cast
j Boogi.
Speaker 16 (11:23):
Castig b cast.
Speaker 14 (11:28):
Moi casty day melionovo gim that fluent barca bodi melody,
that fluid buka bog melo.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Casti day.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
We are punks. In fact, we are internal punks, our
irony and our inner stories. They are transcendent in the
level of humor and looseness. At the heart of what
we did from the very first minutes was our own
ironic approach. These are the works of the bassist of
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the band, and though they are by father most in
the punks, they were the most kneed band. As I
told of the Leningrad rock club rock clubs, people called
them faggots for their dandeli like style, always in costumes,
white shorts, red ties, always calmed and shaved, and as
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their guitaries told about the appearance of the ties, we
couldn't find red ties, so my mother bought pioneer ties
for seventy five kopecks. These were silk ties, but then
she took four military ties from her dress uniform and
then sheathed them in red.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Spoil a shno.
Speaker 19 (13:08):
Goblesnaya by me stop shown Agdara started a slain cigarette
dog a garmana genia edid.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Miss Agdama.
Speaker 20 (13:36):
Garza, Damin Stanning, Shot.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Stomas and breeze the pot.
Speaker 21 (13:45):
Yams to shoot him, had Croy.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
French ra.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
A mason, mos.
Speaker 10 (14:11):
You not study scorning.
Speaker 16 (14:14):
Money by.
Speaker 22 (14:17):
You as.
Speaker 19 (14:30):
My son Jack the gold and.
Speaker 23 (14:34):
Child shy, he never.
Speaker 21 (14:38):
Studied like that, started.
Speaker 20 (14:46):
Brooke and swithing like guy sa go at him swiping
the ag.
Speaker 21 (14:59):
Sho bad bush ej bond es adza.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yes stama steam the.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Phone bust you so.
Speaker 21 (15:25):
Yes boy webst cheat Yeah, go your banasa. That's steaming fund.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Of sub.
Speaker 13 (16:00):
Way. God made chap gold.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
The child.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Shy cheap boo.
Speaker 24 (16:41):
That's good, madam child me my child.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Gluchi sh.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Gluchi b Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
How do they got their name? It was at the university,
Max and Dema, the members were sitting at the same
desk during the scientific Communism lecture and on the ships
of paper they wrote down variants of names based mainly
on the songs of the Beatles, and someone wrote do
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you want to know secret and then circled the last word.
Thus they became a secret. You see, the Beatles are
always somewhere near in this story. And let us again
appeal to the memoirs memoirs of Nikolay Famenka, the bassist,
because he wrote my love for music started with the Beatles.
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My cousin gave me a disc costed about seventy kopecks,
and she didn't say who were these guys, just a
vocal and instrumental ancable and four songs of Lennon McCartney
on the vinyl. She came in and said, these are
great songs, and then played I should have known better,
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which starts with an accordion, and I thought, oh lord,
what a garbage, some kind of Russian folk style accordion.
But I decided to listen further and turn the vinyl
for their other side, and I had heard Can't Buy
Me Love, and I was lost. After that, I wanted
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to become like a Beatle. I had a guitar at
home and I started to practice. Since I was learning
to play the violin, I quickly learned the first three chords.
Hard Day's Night was the first song that the musicians
performed together with special training and rehearsals at a mutual
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friend's wedding.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Las Last.
Speaker 20 (19:53):
Rastristina, stole Rostrino in a cream nestin Let's studio Rasta
and Great is a Problem, Braschi.
Speaker 25 (20:05):
Roast ball and the stain neither loss in cet.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Rang a hey is stealing?
Speaker 17 (20:20):
Hey silly Andy heyst.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Has that ms Dani that.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
She's named a club of pras.
Speaker 20 (20:30):
Broga what brasnic premits of satans chas sas NAT's chas
brabo Christine stas jesus a problem pas initially be wrong,
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Christine the ball and the stain.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
The loss in CD at g a.
Speaker 26 (20:59):
Hey stella in.
Speaker 17 (21:02):
A steel, I'm together in this heap, pat.
Speaker 20 (21:05):
Christy Frosty counships last good right to see Christina idea
so was I'm going to see any blood? Which is
a h goso say shad, don't be there's problem. Ristiner
snam buck criticmnaking who st.
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Yeah, saganacastnians spains oh me me.
Speaker 25 (21:52):
Christine allstate gen.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Laws.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
By the graduating of the university, this band became more
and more popular. Television helped them because a couple of
the members worked at a TV program called Spinning Discs
so they can put their songs in. The Russian Beatles
needed their Brian Epstein, so finally they got him. It
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was Serginatanevich Alexandrov, their producer and their manager. In nineteen
eighty seven, their album became platinum album for Russia.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Double Double God.
Speaker 17 (23:19):
And Double.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Star.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
That's not gonna be once, I said, I said double.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
Snow, knocker stains and the skin of Spa stones as
be passagha have you dress.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Jack big Sandals just.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Ch Actually don't, Sand says said.
Speaker 26 (24:04):
I think you God, Sand says sets.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Sad and so he decisly Gussie brost as dollars music.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Get.
Speaker 14 (24:43):
Masters, never STI sushi and class we awaste.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So hell if we don't have.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Me all you, Sad said, Seth your fa say set up.
Speaker 14 (25:33):
Past that, just get back to g and A on.
Speaker 11 (25:38):
The n.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
This as you know you.
Speaker 26 (25:46):
Celsa sent Amy of course, Selta se.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Sunday on a.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Chair on come on double.
Speaker 16 (26:06):
Screen, dem stream Sam set or Mark.
Speaker 14 (26:13):
Rebo Sky right side book.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Who sells great dis ge.
Speaker 14 (26:21):
But doctor stay Joss natural bass a Buck said Severn.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Sat Sad. Santa s.
Speaker 16 (26:36):
S sent a set.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
In nineteen eighty eight, the band members organized a rock
theater studio also called a Secret, where they staged the
play King of Rock and Roll about Elvis Presley, and
take part in dozens of television programs and some of
which they invent themselves, and by the time Red Ties
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were a thing of the past because the four gradually
changed their image. At the same time, the musicians dressed
according to the same principle as the Beatles. In the
second half of the sixties. It was different clothes, but
nevertheless in the same style. Jackets and white shorts were
replaced by black jackets and dark jeans. Because we can
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say the secret was growing up, they wrote a very
modern venil of the time called Lenin grad Time Lenin
gradsky rima.
Speaker 20 (28:27):
Rona Polish day, Norman nor she is off the rads
white very un usually is a sof series start running
the gap guitar inclusion.
Speaker 27 (28:37):
Beliefs that you God.
Speaker 20 (28:41):
Is able, Skies looks up back when your man gastin
that war, Snopiel Gardi, Puligan Gardian, Julie warn Yes the
future and she Joe Brown Store Dabroun and Rodin.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
I did is called smoking day.
Speaker 22 (29:00):
If you vaksn priss us as red boy, I mean
you put it shack is a spill boy when you
feel fuck, I'm mostly gitious, only throw a chomed a
spoiled You're right gopack cough you know, but ras that
you can do a cough by seeing it's not chat
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it oil comparish were chat as standard did this.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Reading grad scavem and know she's off Marni leading grad
scave rem and knowledges off Marvi not.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Lenian grat scavemen.
Speaker 20 (29:49):
Stevens in me a gay watching Mordney a tell on
me Bristi wills Loana crevists.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Lana said that tell Ascar go a grand food.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Cats secretion is off. The dash strosa.
Speaker 23 (30:03):
Snayer Paukniki stuff Aboustikram Baba for the el and Ganza
Mini Parah attacks crag electricious kiko a m p Rosia
Lisa Bilisa das call Na Pili Grisa sir not when
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I speak to Kringer Skamu asadauch.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Coos Visu the Marina.
Speaker 15 (30:33):
Intershagins inmates as lady mother Shoka thecding.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
The notion of circus speech of Kuda grut.
Speaker 20 (30:40):
Saka is that she Prince Edge Dram said, flag you've
quest your book club Pavenon.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Lenon grad s cave red and lug yourself lo the not.
Speaker 20 (30:57):
Lenian grad s caven and knows so nor benosed you
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start with steady Gaga re signed smiles a f mood.
She would really barrass it agree while not you bury
it even and Davar and a lard laying in grassky
and Nasa still a fuzzy will be this witch and
is selling getting God the slashing story if we got
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damned Ron simply sion not wrong to warm leading grad scale,
Brenner knowledges off, nory me not leading grad scale, Breader
knowledges off, no me no leaning grad scale, Brenner leaning
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grad scale, Freemen leaning grad scale, Bremer leaning grad scaling,
Brener leaning grad scalen.
Speaker 22 (32:45):
Len grd sc.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The musical gave the member of the band, Max Lean,
need of the name, so he'd like to play solo.
Max wanted to express himself in new forms, and the group,
tired of endless concerts, began to experience the first crisis
of relations and gave the first crack, so they were
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left without Max. He left the band and the beat
Quartet was replaced by the Trial. Though Max's solo things
were very very interesting, because he has shown himself as
a very good lyricist, I can say a poet. I
used to listen to his solo songs sometimes, for example,
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this one about two dumbells and one Eye an in
a bag. This is a funny story when a lyrical
hero always gets these strange things on his birthday.
Speaker 20 (33:56):
My story star a Sloan hell a veg astrologian, nationals
Machini courtier. If the share for the merry boy who
turned your shorely put his kind of sh.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
It's a boy.
Speaker 20 (34:14):
Rascasm Paul and Stradani emuk Za Glavia Vegan daily you
know Cadamia, David, Nachla Deminia Natas Piano or neil Ana
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and not a thinking persiles.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Not.
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Kagdaya but sty some dog Kambela to vegan you know,
to stall sating brostrosty I Dells.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Lesa wed the.
Speaker 15 (35:02):
Shamanil woodrow and Mishi gander stain your foot precuded pacient.
Speaker 27 (35:08):
Your part, you know your moca or ku passively.
Speaker 20 (35:11):
Of drug Umbelagan Terry I did not you.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
And she does mean you.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
You see others.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Yeah this Calcani to go sor rare sor rare.
Speaker 27 (36:00):
It spent me now your tops the ram again rinald
between President Pat.
Speaker 28 (36:11):
Doogan tell you know now it was retailery style exacly
Geni pasta meum level chili, but yet evil Britain Saber
Daddy the Nay spir Ye.
Speaker 15 (36:30):
Basis by Penny my Stock on Deello Meroo Kataian rather
about see London Ship Group.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Tambella.
Speaker 28 (36:42):
Know Tiperia Glass.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Arrish Cutlet.
Speaker 20 (36:53):
Yeah it's a boy Gorden Guarden eighty some year pretty shun.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
Yes, now you've touched a loched bathers.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
Let's womb with you.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Levente to.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
The period from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety seven wasn't
prominent for all of them. Max ried himself in Israel
but returned to Russia. The others were trying to play
without him, and they reorganized the band. Finally when I
understand that they are still okay to play with each other,
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and then we can say that more than thirty five
years they has been playing together. And I was at
the anniversary concerto and it was very nice.
Speaker 7 (38:37):
Sque never stole it you through discussions as have seen
men as which we have feminal bot why be priss
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me criture tb navit pre.
Speaker 20 (39:17):
Previous that's liver tim letter approaching story at Visnyao A snack.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
Packn it short mea.
Speaker 20 (39:34):
Previous Christ watching block now watches nice art best Bidjila
at leach kaka bach as lichen no turks lichen previous
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previous ador.
Speaker 7 (40:00):
Did yees yeah bah bah yeah, Yet.
Speaker 20 (40:07):
Don't nobody yet past that books need a solution man,
Yes they say.
Speaker 7 (40:13):
Yeah, I can say, can so many deal?
Speaker 20 (40:19):
And yes rish schliy so yeah pretty yet.
Speaker 7 (40:27):
No more sure dooys means no wo no boots pre prety.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Pet these secrets dua. Nikolai Famianka and Maximilianiedev were our
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Lennon and McCartney in this story. You can decide yourself
who is who. Lennon was the first who left, so
was Leanidov. Though Famienka's lyrics is more ironic and sharp,
at the same time, Leanedov is more poetic as McCartney was.
So this parallel is not full. And now I remember
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the song called the Last Hour of December, and we
will finish this story with it. Maximilian Needov claims that
they wrote this song with Nikolai Famyanka under the influence
of maybe famous Happy New Year of the Swedish band
called Abba. He is fully convinced that in the US
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s R, Soviet listeners didn't know any serious modern songs
about New Year except for this ABBA's masterpiece. So now
we have the last hour of December, let's finish with it.
Speaker 5 (42:50):
Future restaurants, Father.
Speaker 29 (43:01):
Strength, Casambri, sail Shrie, Barbara been a school, No we go, So.
Speaker 5 (43:15):
All large.
Speaker 9 (43:20):
Whose starry God as prested i sabi god dara Astao sonas.
Speaker 5 (43:31):
Targan chas Fasi cha.
Speaker 9 (43:38):
As Chasti Gabra Samarai, who skyri chaabaa.
Speaker 14 (43:51):
Segash lash who sat.
Speaker 9 (43:58):
Paslaky chats first Lady Chasty Cabra.
Speaker 5 (44:10):
Per nasty, nasty, brasty.
Speaker 9 (44:17):
Buggas Raso Lucia runners east foot braving.
Speaker 14 (44:27):
The much.
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A slightly chaste.
Speaker 6 (44:36):
Cobras sammary ary sky Dan sabers.
Speaker 5 (44:53):
Basay chastybra.
Speaker 9 (44:59):
Firstly chop chose about somebody?
Speaker 14 (45:35):
What's got guts leap, says.
Speaker 26 (45:49):
Joe.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
Chas chaste, the sweet chast