Lube (music band)

Lyube is a Soviet and Russian rock band, founded on January 14, 1989 by Igor Matvienko and Nikolay Rastorguev. The band uses elements of author's song, Russian folk music and rock music in their creative work.

The idea of creating the group "Lyube" belongs to producer and composer Igor Matvienko, who was working at that time at the Studio of Popular Music "Record".

In 1988, the idea to create a new music group with a light national-patriotic bias and manly vocals came to his mind. The search for a candidate for the role of the frontman was long and painful, until the final verdict on the job was the former "subordinate" of Igor Igor Igorovich in the ensemble "Lay, Song" Nikolai Rastorguev. By the way, the song "Uncle Vasya" from "Leisya, pesnya" performed by Rastorguev was included in the first album of "Lyube".

The beginning...

The first recorded songs for the still nameless collective were "Lyubertsy" and "Batka Makhno". The work on them started in January 14, 1989 in the studio "Zvuk" and in the studio of Moscow Palace of Youth. Guitarist of "Mirazh" band Alexey Gorbashov, Lyubertsy's resident and by conviction Victor Zastrov took part in the work, tenor Anatoly Kuleshov and bass Alexey Tarasov, Igor Matvienko and Nikolay Rastorguev were invited for recording of chorus. It was decided to make a calculation from that day on and consider this day the official birthday of "Lube".

The lyrics for the debut lyrics of Lyube were written by Alexander Shaganov, a famous poet from his work with the hard band Black Coffee (in particular, "Vladimirskaya Rus'") and Dmitry Malikov ("Till Tomorrow"), and Mikhail Andreyev, who wrote for Matvienko's "Class" and the Leningrad band "Forum". Later, other songs were recorded: "Dusya the Aggregate", "Atas", "Don't Destroy, Men", etc. In the same year the first tour of the band took place

The band's name was invented by Nikolay Rastorguev, for whom the word "lyube" has been familiar since his childhood - besides the fact that the musician lives in Lyubertsy, near Moscow, in Ukrainian this word means "any, any, different", but, according to Nikolay Rastorguev, each listener can interpret the band's name as he or she pleases.

The first line-up of the band was as follows: Alexander Nikolaev - bass guitar, Vyacheslav Tereshonok - guitar, Rinat Bakhteev - drums, Alexander Davydov - keyboards. Though the band composed in that way didn't exist long - in a year the band changed its members. First tour started at the end of March 1989. Closer to the evening the band in full staff arrived to Vnukovo to fly to Mineralnye Vody. They were also joined by Oleg Katsura, the soloist of the "Class" group. Concerts were held in Pyatigorsk and Zheleznovodsk. The first concerts were not a success and were held with empty halls.

In December 1989 he performed at the "Christmas Meetings" of Alla Pugacheva, where Rastorguev, on Alla Borisovna's advice, put on a military dress uniform to perform the song "Atas", and since then it has become a distinctive attribute of his stage image

1990

In 1990 the band's debut tape album titled "We Will Live Now in a New Way" was released, which became the prototype of the first album that would later become part of the official discography of "Lyube".

1991

In 1991 LP with the debut album "Atas" was released. Its songs: "Batka Makhno", "Taganskaya Station", "Don't kill, my men", "Atas", "Lyubertsy" etc. were already well-known by TV, radio and concerts. Because of some technical peculiarities, the vinyl disc did not contain the whole album (only 11 out of 14 songs were included). Later, a CD and an audio cassette with the full-length first album appeared on store shelves.

1992

In 1992 the band released their second album, "Who Said We Had a Bad Life? The interim album, which had been released a year before in 1991, got a full-fledged release - there were added some songs that had not been included before, there was a company disc with polygraphy. It took two years to work on the album. It was recorded at the recording studios of Moscow Dortsa Molodezhi and the studio of Stas Namin (SNC)

1992-1994

Back in 1992, "Lyube" started recording new songs that differ from the previous two albums by their seriousness, sound quality, mostly rock sound with elements of folk instruments and extended chorus parts.

1995-1996

On May 7, 1995 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Victory the first "Lube" song "Combat" sounded on the air. There were plans even to shoot a paramilitary clip of the airborne division exercises, but they were not made in time. The work on the next album started in 1995. In 1996

1997

In 1997, an intermediate collection of the best - "Collected Works" and a lyrical creation "Songs About People" was released. One of Rastorguev's favorite songs, included in this album, is "There, Beyond the Mists".

The band participated in the 2003 election campaign of the Motherland bloc. Subsequently, the band repeatedly held concerts in support of the United Russia party and the Molodaya Gvardiya youth movement.

In the following years the band grew in popularity. According to the ROMIR Monitoring research holding in January 2006, 17% of the polled named "Lyube" the best pop band. Gradually the direction of the group's music changed as well, touching on contemporary military rock themes and backyard chanson in the mid-1990s, which in many ways reworked the traditions of the Soviet stage.

Nikolay Rastorguev - Honored Artist of Russia (1997) and People's Artist of Russia (2002). The band's musicians Anatoly Kuleshov, Vitaly Loktev, and Alexander Yerokhin were also awarded the title of Honored Artist (2004).

The band's backup vocalist Anatoly Kuleshov, who had participated in the group since its foundation, tragically died in a car accident on April 19, 2009.

In 2010 Nikolay Rastorguev became a deputy of the Federal Assembly of the "United Russia" faction of the Stavropol Territory

Discography

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Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev on 2 March 2008, the day of Russian presidential election. The soundtrack while they walk is Lyube's Davay za. Lyube is Putin's favourite band[2]

Атас (Atas, slang for "alert" — 1991)

Кто сказал, что мы плохо жили..? (Kto skazal, chto my plokho zhili...?, "Who said that we lived badly?" — 1992)

Зона Любэ (Zona lyube, "Lyube zone" — 1994)

Комбат (Kombat, "battalion commander" — 1996)

Собрание сочинений (Sobranie sochineniy, "collected works" — 1997)

Песни о людях (Pesni o ludyakh, "songs about people" — 1997)

Песни из концертной программы "Песни о людях" 24.02.98 (Iz kontsertnoy programmy "Pesni o ludyakh" ("From the concert programs of 'Songs about people'", two-disc concert recording — 1998)

Полустаночки (Polustanochki, "Whistle-stops" — 2000)

Собрание сочинений. Том 2 (Sobranie sochineniy, Tom 2, "collected works, volume 2" — 2001)

Давай за... (Davay za..., "let's drink it for..." — 2002)

Юбилей. Лучшие песни (Yubilej. Luchshiye Pesni, "anniversary, best of", two-disc concert recording — 2002)

Ребята нашего полка (Rebyata nashego polka, "the guys from our regiment" — 2004)

Рассея (Rasseya, "Russia" with a typically patriotic spelling variation — 2005)

В России (V Rossiyi, "in Russia" — 2007)

Собрание сочинений. Том 3 (Sobranie sochinenyi. Tom 3, "collected works volume 3" — 2008)

Свои (Svoi, "our people" — 2009)

За тебя, Родина-мать! (Za tebya, Rodina-mat' , "For you, Motherland!" - 2015)