35-517: Andrey Vadimovich Makarevich (Russian: Андре́й Вади́мович Макаре́вич ; born 11 December 1953) is an Israeli and Soviet-Russian rock musician and the founder of Russia's oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine). Makarevich was born in Moscow to mixed-heritage parents of Belarusian ( royal peasantry ), Polish aristocracy (from the Sas family ), Greek and Jewish origin. He graduated from
70-496: A "foreign agent". Makarevich had a cameo in the 1999 cult film 8 ½ $ and played an important acting role in Eldar Ryazanov 's 2000 film Still Waters . He has also composed music for a number of films. Mashina Vremeni Mashina Vremeni ( Russian : Машина времени , lit. 'Time Machine') is a Russian rock band founded in 1969. Mashina Vremeni was a pioneer of Soviet rock music and remains one of
105-569: A break in the performance. On the heels of this experience, Makarevich joined with other musically talented students from his school and another school to form Mashiny Vremeni ( Russian : Машины времени , lit. 'Time Machines' – in plural form imitating The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , etc.). The most significant founding members included Sergey Kawagoe and Andrey Makarevich . The band's repertoire consisted of eleven songs in English , now lost. Mashina Vremeni started playing during
140-491: A major label after 1964." Classic rock has also been associated with the album era (1960s–2000s), by writers Bob Lefsetz and Matthew Restall , who says the term is a relabeling of the "virtuoso pop/rock" from the era's early decades. The format's origins are traced by music scholar Jon Stratton to the emergence of a classic-rock canon. This canon arose in part from music journalism and superlative lists ranking certain albums and songs that are consequently reinforced to
175-550: A new song, "Only Love Will Keep You Alive" (Тільки любов залишить тебе живим). The lyrics of the song are written in three languages – Russian, Ukrainian and Polish. In 2014 Makarevich received the Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award endowed by Alexandra Hildebrandt . The award is given annually in recognition of extraordinary, non-violent commitment to human rights. He supported the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests and criticized Russian invasion of Ukraine . In 2022, Russia designated him
210-571: A post-baby boomer economy. The music selected for the format has been identified as predominantly commercially successful songs by white male acts from the Anglosphere , expressing values of Romanticism , self-aggrandizement, and politically undemanding ideologies. It has been associated with the album era (1960s–2000s), particularly the period's early pop/rock music. The classic rock format evolved from AOR radio stations that were attempting to appeal to an older audience by including familiar songs of
245-526: A rock band largely inspired by Western rock and blues of the time. He is the band's singer and guitarist. While their music is written by all the members, Makarevich is the band's exclusive lyrics writer. Mashina Vremeni had a big influence on the development of rock music in USSR. Makarevich also released eight solo albums, participated in regular TV shows and assisted other groups and artists. He authored several poetry collections and two volumes of memoirs. Makarevich
280-535: A school band called The Kids, which was made up of two male guitarists and two female vocalists. The group sang mostly English-language folk songs and performed primarily at talent shows put on in Moscow schools. According to Makarevich, the momentous event in his musical career came when the Soviet group VIA Atlanty ( Russian : ВИА «Атланты» ) visited his school and allowed him to play a couple of songs on their equipment during
315-432: A timeless music lent it a distinction from the "inherently nihilistic" pop he had first listened to on the radio as a teenager in the early 1990s. "[I]t seemed to have been around forever," he writes of the classic rock format. "It was there long before I was born, and I was sure it was still going to be around after I was gone." Politically, the mindset underlying classic rock is regarded by Christgau as regressive. He says
350-459: Is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format. The radio format became increasingly popular with the baby boomer demographic by
385-522: Is a fan of The Beatles , and many of his songs reflect the Beatles' influence. He is also influenced by blues music and Soviet singer-songwriters, the so-called " bards ". Kutikov is a quintessential rocker, he composes guitar-oriented hard rock . Margulis is one of the Russia's best known bluesmen, and his songs are usually blues rock ballads. The majority of the band's lyrics are written by Makarevich. During
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#1732905029023420-680: Is also interested in painting. He accompanied Mikhail Gorbachev on his solo album in 2009. Makarevich performed for Ukraine 's internally displaced people during the war in Donbas in the Ukrainian town Sviatohirsk in August 2014. Deputy of the State Duma Yevgeny Fyodorov vowed to strip Makarevich of all Russian state honors, describing his performance in Svyatogorsk as "collaborating with
455-456: Is generally cited as the year of its birth". By 1986, the success of the format resulted in oldies accounting for 60–80% of the music played on album rock stations. Although it began as a niche format spun off from AOR, by 2001, classic rock had surpassed album rock in market share nationally. During the mid-1980s, the classic rock format was mainly tailored to the adult male demographic ages 25–34, which remained its largest demographic through
490-701: The Moscow Architectural Institute as a graphic artist. He was born to a mother of Jewish origin, tuberculosis specialist, microbiologist Nina Markovna Makarevich (née Shmuylovich, 1926–1989) and a father of Belarusian origin, architect and teacher of the Moscow Architectural Institute Vadim Grigorievich Makarevich (1924–1996). Until 2011, he was a supporter of the Presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev , believing that at that time there
525-602: The Russo-Ukrainian War frontman Andrey Makarevich denounced Russian military intervention in Crimea and eastern Ukraine . Other people associated with the band kept a low profile in the matter through 2014, but in 2015 it became known that at least Kutikov was against Russian policy in Ukraine, while Derzhavin and director/manager Vladimir Sapunov sided with President Vladimir Putin's policies. Classic rock Classic rock
560-521: The '70s," he writes in 1991 for Details magazine. "It was invented by prepunk/predisco radio programmers who knew that before they could totally commodify '60s culture they'd have to rework it—that is, selectively distort it till it threatened no one ... In the official rock pantheon the Doors and Led Zeppelin are Great Artists while Chuck Berry and Little Richard are Primitive Forefathers and James Brown and Sly Stone are Something Else." Regarding
595-610: The Doors , Kiss , Yes , Styx , Queen , Led Zeppelin , and Jimi Hendrix . The songs of the Rolling Stones , particularly from the 1970s, have become staples of classic rock radio. " (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction " (1965), " Under My Thumb " (1966), " Paint It Black " (1966), and " Miss You " (1978) are among their most popular selections, with Complex calling the latter "an eternal mainstay on classic-rock radio". A 2006 Rolling Stone article noted that teens were surprisingly interested in classic rock and speculated that
630-641: The Steve Miller Band , Simon & Garfunkel , Nirvana , Dire Straits , Electric Light Orchestra , Genesis , Aerosmith , AC/DC , Alice Cooper , Deep Purple , Quiet Riot , Bruce Springsteen , John Mellencamp , Def Leppard , Boston , the Cars , Pearl Jam , the Grateful Dead , Fleetwood Mac , Billy Joel , Elton John , Bryan Adams , Eric Clapton , The Who , Van Halen , Rush , Black Sabbath , U2 , Guns N' Roses , Lynyrd Skynyrd , Eagles , ZZ Top ,
665-492: The benefit in the FM station appealing to younger rock fans and the AM station appealing a bit older. The ratings of both stations could be added together to appeal to advertisers. Classic rock soon became the widely used descriptor for the format and became the commonly used term among the general public for early album rock music. In the mid-1980s, the format's widespread proliferation came on
700-465: The collective and public memory. Robert Christgau says the classic-rock concept transmogrified rock music into a "myth of rock as art-that-stands-the-test-of-time". He also believes it was inevitable that certain rock artists would be canonized by critics, major media, and music establishment entities such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . In 2018, Steven Hyden recalls how the appearance of classic rock as
735-505: The creative unit, with the charismatic lead singer playing a key role, and the guitar as the primary instrument. This was a version of classic Romanticism , an ideology with its origins in art and aesthetics. — Roy Shuker (2016) Classic-rock radio programmers largely play "tried and proven" hit songs from the past based on their "high listener recognition and identification", says media academic Roy Shuker, who also identifies white male rock acts from Sgt. Pepper -era Beatles through
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#1732905029023770-691: The end of the 1990s. Although classic rock has mostly appealed to adult listeners, music associated with this format received more exposure with younger listeners with the presence of the Internet and digital downloading. Some classic rock stations also play a limited number of current releases which are stylistically consistent with the station's sound, or by heritage acts which are still active and producing new music. Among academics and historians, classic rock has been discussed as an effort by critics, media, and music establishments to canonize rock music and commodify 1960s Western culture for audiences living in
805-566: The fascists". Later that month, NTV aired a documentary titled 13 Friends of the Junta in which Makarevich was described as a "traitor" and supporter of fascists. The Moscow Times reported that footage of his concert "was merged with images of the fighting that he supposedly endorsed. The program never mentions that the concert was for the benefit of Ukraine's internally displaced children." In July 2015, Makarevich together with Ukrainian band Haydamaky and Polish singer Maciej Maleńczuk presented
840-522: The heels of Jacobs Media's (Fred Jacobs) success at WCXR , in Washington, D.C. , and Edinborough Rand's (Gary Guthrie) success at WZLX in Boston . Between Guthrie and Jacobs, they converted more than 40 major market radio stations to their individual brand of classic rock over the next several years. Billboard magazine's Kim Freeman posits that "while classic rock's origins can be traced back earlier, 1986
875-404: The interest in the older bands might be related to the absence of any new, dominant sounds in rock music since the advent of grunge . Ideologically, 'classic rock' serves to confirm the dominant status of a particular period of music history – the emergence of rock in the mid-1960s – with its associated values and set of practices: live performance, self-expression, and authenticity; the group as
910-538: The last years of the Brezhnev era , but could not get official bookings as a professional band. In 1979 Makarevich signed the band up with Rosconcert , becoming legitimate in the State music system. Mashina Vremeni's sound is eclectic and incorporates multiple different genres. Contributions to song composition have been made by almost every band member, and often reflect each member's particular stylistic preferences. Makarevich
945-545: The late 1970s as the focus of their playlists. As Catherine Strong observes, classic rock songs are generally performed by white male acts from either the United States or the United Kingdom, "have a four-four time , very rarely exceed the time limit of four minutes, were composed by the musicians themselves, are sung in English, played by a 'classical' rock formation (drums, bass, guitar, keyboard instruments) and were released on
980-414: The mid-1990s. As the format's audience aged, its demographics skewed toward older age groups. By 2006, the 35–44 age group was the format's largest audience; by 2014, the 45–54 year-old demographic was the largest. Typically, classic rock stations play rock songs from the mid-1960s through the 1980s and began adding 1990s music in the early 2010s. Most recently, there has been a "newer classic rock" under
1015-464: The music in this format abandoned ironic sensibilities in favor of unintellectual, conventional aesthetics rooted in Victorian era Romanticism , while downplaying the more radical aspects of 1960s counterculture , such as politics, race, African-American music , and pop in the art sense . "Though classic rock draws its inspiration and most of its heroes from the '60s, it is, of course, a construction of
1050-421: The oldest still-active rock bands in Russia. The band's music incorporates elements of classic rock , blues , and bard's song . Mashina Vremeni's best known members are Andrey Makarevich (founder, principal singer-songwriter, public face of the band), Alexander Kutikov (bass player and producer/sound engineer), and Evgeny Margulis (guitarist/songwriter). Andrey Makarevich's musical career can be traced to
1085-551: The past with current hits. In 1980, AOR radio station M105 in Cleveland began billing itself as "Cleveland's Classic Rock", playing a mix of rock music from the mid-1960s to the present. Similarly, WMET called itself "Chicago's Classic Rock" in 1981. In 1982, radio consultant Lee Abrams developed the "Timeless Rock" format, which combined contemporary AOR with rock hits from the 1960s and 1970s. KRBE , an AM station in Houston ,
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1120-573: The relationship of economics to the rise of classic rock, Christgau believes there was compromised socioeconomic security and diminishing collective consciousness of a new generation of listeners in the 1970s, who succeeded rock's early years during baby-boomer economic prosperity in the United States: "Not for nothing did classic rock crown the Doors' mystagogic middlebrow escapism and Led Zep's chest-thumping megalomaniac grandeur. Rhetorical self-aggrandizement that made no demands on everyday life
1155-713: The slogan of the next generation of classic rock. Stations such as WLLZ in Detroit, WBOS in Boston, and WKQQ in Lexington play music focusing more on harder edge classic rock from the 1980s to the 2000s. Many of the artists that are featured heavily on classic rock radio are the Beatles , Blue Öyster Cult , Bob Seger , Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young , Creedence Clearwater Revival , David Bowie , The Doobie Brothers , Foreigner , Heart , Judas Priest , Mötley Crüe , The Police , Pink Floyd , Player , Steely Dan , Supertramp ,
1190-461: Was an early classic rock radio station. In 1983, program director Paul Christy designed a format which played only early album rock, from the 1960s and early 1970s, without current music or any titles from the pop or dance side of Top 40. Another AM station airing classic rock, beginning in 1983, was KRQX in Dallas - Fort Worth . KRQX was co-owned with an album rock station, 97.9 KZEW . Management saw
1225-445: Was no alternative to them, and that many problems were caused not by the authorities, but by the society itself. Starting in 2011, he opposed the re-election of Putin for a third term in the absence of real elections. He immigrated to Israel in 2022, where he had a son from an Israeli-Ukrainian wife in his fourth marriage. In his youth, Makarevich was a big fan of the English rock band The Beatles . In 1969, he founded Mashina Vremeni,
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