Zhenya + Ivonna = Rock and Roll!

“The Bravo group is a musical event so bright, romantic and non -casual that it would not have been possible to write a dull book about it, probably even with a great desire. Alexei Pevchev chose a true tone-he goes from the material, from the crazy texture of the Moscow Bit and Endeghund, adventures with special services, the drunken air of perestroika and publicity, the infinite fucker of the nineties ... actually an adventure-Plutovsk novel; Musical and criminal reading for lovers of the most stylish and clockwork music of all time-rock and roll! ” - answered Artemy Troitsky about the book of Alexei Pevchev “Bravo. Authorized biography of the group ”, which has just been published in the publishing house Eksmo. Colta.ru publishes a fragment from it, in which Zhanna Aguzarova meets secular Moscow and Zhenya Havtan.

"The Swede -donated Ivonna Anders"

The future Queen of Rock and Roll was born in the village of Kolyvan, the Novosibirsk region. The chances of being designated on the rock and roll map of the world, the village of Kolyvan had no slightest, but it was from there that a young girl named Zhanna Aguzarov came from there.

In her native school, she was definitely a superpome, aimed at least to take the place of Alla Pugacheva, but at the maximum-to become the queen Rock and Roll.

The upbringing of the young Zhanna Khasanovna Aguzarova was engaged in the grandmother of the Olympics Petrovna, who made a lot for the granddaughter to open as a talented vocalist. Grandmother sat her in front of the TV and said: "Get with them." Interestingly, the passion for exotic outfits instilled in Jeanne the Olympics Petrovna, who created her new, truly exotic outfits from old clothes. There were rumors that the braid, which Jeanne fastened to her violent head years later, was the real one, from childhood. Grandmother retained her after Aguzarova decided to once deal with an unnecessary, in her opinion, accessory.

Jeanne was considered by everyone who met on the street.

“She didn’t go for water like everyone else. It will put on a sweatshirt, on top - a chic belt, a large leather green wallet will hang on the chest - and go ... ”(from the memoirs of one of the classmates of Jeanne).

There were rumors that the braid, which Jeanne fastened to her violent head years later, was the real one, from childhood.

The graduation dress, which “Hassanchik” - as her friends called her - sewed for a solemn occasion, they still cannot forget in her homeland.

There could be no question of staying at home after school. Moreover, the initial goals were marked extremely clearly: GITIS, workshop of Peter Fomenko or opera director Boris Pokrovsky. After all the admissions commissions, having shuddering massively, unanimously voted against a potential student, Jeanne thought.

Return home and recognize the defeat?

This could not be discussed. Hassing a hurry to the first vocational school, so that they would not be wiped off for the 101st kilometer, the failed actress began to master the profession of a malyar, while looking at Moscow. She cooked her blitzkrieg slowly.

What Jeanne was counting on and what prospects at first built was difficult to say. Nevertheless, the letters that came to their homeland were full of optimism and faith in a bright future.

“Throw everything and come! I am very glad that I got into this city. Let people be spoiled by money, trade and debauchery, but there are great guys and theater ... How can you live there? Do you really want to be an ordinary layman, a bourgeois who will meet its agronomist and they will live, to drink and make a car? ” - Jeanne wrote to her friend Tamara Gorbunova.

In some miraculously, the young painter made acquaintance with the bright Moscow informal Garik Assoe, a charismatic guy, a punk and avant-garde, a friend of the underground metropolitan fashion designer Petlyura.

Garik himself subsequently claimed that Sergey Bugaev introduced him to Jeanne. With Garik Assh and his company - a variegated, groovy, gray everyday life and personalities, it was not bored to put it mildly. Garik with the same ease was entered into all the bohemian places of Moscow and St. Petersburg-“Children's World”, the Petliurovo Compound, the workshops on the Furmann and, of course, Pushkinskaya, 10. In St. Petersburg, he repeatedly participated in the performances of Sergei Kurekhin and his “pop-dies”. It is not surprising - the captain would definitely not be able to miss such a character. Garik moved in space in a huge cloak on top of a jacket with tucked sleeves and trousers collected by an accordion with a belt on the belt, and always in the hat. The company, estimated in the same way, accompanied it in all sorties in the center of the capital and the surroundings. Underground galleries, rock concerts, just bohemian booze and everything that did not fit into the general dull picture of the “scoop” took place with the very direct participation of Garik Assa and his team.

It is noteworthy that Rock Garik became interested in Khabarovsk. New entries in the port city received regularly, so that the classic rock and roll was replaced in time to Sex Pistols , MC 5 and IGGI POP, and things from the city department store - for “stitched” fashion clothes for foreigners.

Garik fit into Moscow life easily and freely. The port city, which gives material values ​​along with spiritual, is not always easy, but allowed to feel the advanced dude even among the Moscow bohemia. However, there could be no question of entering a similar company for a girl from a distant village. But what is surprising: Jeanne, who came from the Siberian hinterland, completely absent a provincial dialect! Well, in order to document its decent origin, the name of Ivonna Anders stood in her passport. In companies, she reported that her parents are employees of the Swedish diplomatic mission in Moscow. How Aguzarova managed to fake the passport so that, despite the frequent checks of the documents, no one has ever doubted the genuine origin of the “Swedish -donated” is unknown. Perhaps someday she will tell about this herself or one of her friends.

In the meantime, the non -standard appearance and light in the eyes clearly flashed the genius of shocking to Garik Asse, which is not a simple girl in front of him.

Not all “fly ages” are equally harmful

It was Garik Assa who dragged Jeanne-Ivonn-to one of the bohemian and endographed gatherings of the “fly agaric”, before that almost forcibly dressing her in the most crazy things from his collection.

"Fleeter" Ivonna looked immediately. Probably, this was the first time when she got to people, her own “one hundred” - young, bright, freedom -loving, independent and reckless. Rock and Roll was everywhere, not only in music, but also in the lifestyle of the company itself. He surrounded and set the rhythm of every day, despite the fact that there were completely different rhythms in the official favor.

By the way, the "fly agaric" also had the most directly related to music. Their only “Golden Album” recorded on the film was wild musical experiments, which consisted in imposing and mixing music by Soviet composers and provocative, sometimes frankly anti -Soviet, mocking texts. The metropolitan bohemia passed this album to each other along with a photocopied literary samizdat.

The first team that Ivonna Anders met was the crematorium, which at that time performed a port-lyric acoustic rock, focused on a drinking student audience, sympathizing with hippies, but not only.

Armen Grigoryan (leader of the Kremitoria group): “After graduating from the institute in the spring of 1984, I went to an internship at the Research Institute near the Lermontovskaya metro station (now the“ Red Gate ”) and somehow drew attention to a modestly sitting on a bench in a square, at the monument to a poet, a brightly dressed girl. I got hooked, a conversation started. The time was hippovsky, and people got acquainted quite simply. It turned out that the girl’s name was willow that she was from Tyumen (about dad - a Swedish diplomat - nothing was said), she wanted to sing songs, unsuccessfully tried to get into the Pokrovsky ensemble.

I told her that I am playing in the group of “crematorium” and I have one project-a certain cycle of songs, a monoscope based on the plot of the novel by Alexander Duma Jr. “Lady with Camellias”-and that I need a performer! It was clearly inappropriate to arrange a listening directly on the bench, and we decided to meet in the apartment of one of my then-companions named Troegubov, where I had already planned the next gatherings. Unfortunately, on the appointed day, I could not come, called this friend and asked if a girl named IVA came out, to give her my apologies, to confirm that everything is in strength, and give my phone to agree on a meeting a little later. But the woe-intermediary suddenly decided to show the initiative and met her somewhere in the subway, read his rhymes, after which, apparently, heavily impressed by a date, the girl gave Deru and no longer appeared on the horizon. When I then heard her in “Bravo”, I regretted that Jeanne and I did not meet then! She would be an ideal choice for that setting! The fragments of these songs after 15 years, in the late 90s, surfaced on the albums “Micronesia” and “Gigantomania” performed by different girls, including Olga Dzusova, by the way, not inferior to Aguzarova according to vocal data, but the project itself died out. ”

Would Ivonna Anders become if everything happened then with the “crematorium”, a kind of Russian Janice Joplin? Who knows.

Ivonna, in full seriously, showed Dodolev a muddy photo in which she was captured in the company of David Bowie.

The party medium in which Ivonna was constantly rotated, was vast. Dating and discoveries took place daily, but one of the most important meetings of that time for Ivonna clearly became a meeting with Peter Mamonov. The “Sounds of Mu” groups did not exist yet, and Peter Nikolaevich was content with the performance of his terrible two-korda psychedelic songs under a 12-string guitar. The rest was finished with facial expressions, gestures and plastics. Complete this permanent alcoholic trance, which is duration incompatible with an adequate perception of reality, and the picture will form terrible and truthful. Ivonna and Peter immediately appreciated each other's potential, and joint dancing on the piano-perhaps the most innocent fun of all that they have ever started-secured friendship.

The metropolitan rock and roll bohemia lived a full-fledged life. Ivonna and the company fit with the same enthusiasm both on underground rock seans, underground shows of mods and exhibitions-surveys, and on closed secular theatrical and film premieres. They talked, gained experience, changed by notes, shared fresh information, hanged out, not sparing time and effort. Many years later, TV presenter Evgeny Dodolev said that he met Ivna Anders on the steps of the Bolshoi Theater, where the future employee of the View revolutionary TV program, he is also a master of political investigations, and later-Alexander Gradsky, met a girl of an unusual appearance. Ivonna, in full seriously, showed Dodolev a muddy photo in which she was captured in the company of David Bowie. Whether Dodolev believed in this then, it was not known for certain, but one thing was obvious to him - such a girl could not be missed. One way or another, but the Moscow Bohemia accepted Ivonna Anders for her - instantly and unconditionally. I had not had to be carried out for “compliance”.

Zhenya + Ivonna = Rock and Roll!

On one of the secular gatherings, the “fly agaric” advised Ivonne to stop driving a fool and call the guitarist a young nameless team to Zhenya Havtan. Perhaps it will work out.

The musicians of the future “Bravo” later described their first meeting in different ways, but only recently Evgeny Havtan voiced a version that seemed the most plausible. The girl called him indecent later in the fall of 1983. Since before the era of mobile phones there was more than fifteen years, a call to the apartment where Eugene lived with his parents seemed somewhat strange to him.

Having picked up the phone, he discovered at the other end of the sonorous young lady who claimed that he really wanted to sing and that she was exactly what his young group needed. Aguzarova later claimed that in a telephone near the cinema “Star” her fan club, a sign “From here, Zhanna called Zhenya, was installed for the first time, and he invited her to her group.” Of course, no one was going to invite anyone on the way.

The intrigued leader of the group made a meeting the next day in the center of the VDNH metro hall. In order not to arrange rock and roll brings ten times ten times, and simply not wanting to get bored in anticipation, Havtan took Pavel Cousin with him. And he did the right thing - I had to wait more than forty minutes. Such delays in the future became quite common.

At that moment, when the friends decided that the next batch of those leaving the wagon of the workers was already exactly the last, Jeanne appeared from the door.

According to Pavel Kuzin, “they were waiting for a very long time and were about to leave. We stand, look - it seems, here it is! I ran back and forth, to one, to the other, she still stooped like a grandmother. Found finally. "

Extravagant appearance, Jeanne’s robe, external data of friends and a bag with foreign letters had to meet.

Jeanne had a pretty friend Natasha and a large plastic bag with the letters Tati .

Extravagant appearance, Jeanne’s robe, external data of friends and a bag with foreign letters (the fact that Tati is a French sales store, young people learned a little later) had to get acquainted.

To the base of the Mosenergotekhprom recreation center, where the saxophonist Stepanenko and the bassist Konusov languished in anticipation of colleagues, they decided to take a taxi. Along the way, Khavtan and Kuzin were somewhat apprehensively watched Jeanne, who already spilled a taxi on a uniform railway, issued by Havtan as a future engineer of transport, half a bottle of kefir. The taxi driver also fell. The House of Culture, when a girl appeared, in the presence of which chairs and doors broke, fell multi -kilogram structures, shuddered with old walls, but the musicians immediately asked to demonstrate what everyone, in fact, gathered so solemnly.

“Jeanne sang, and it was so great that everything was determined right now. We decided that we did not need any guy. The girl is original. She greatly betrayed blues and rock and rolls even without words. I just have not seen such performers before. There is energy in the presentation. There is a buzz in what she does. And all this is very sincere. We started making a program. Rehearse. Meet twice a week. Jeanne brought the verses of William Jay Smith, Arseny of Tarkovsky. My music was already ready, and we began to choose what would suit the mood, ”said Yevgeny Havtan in an interview with the student Meridian magazine.

Jeanne found texts of songs everywhere-in old magazines and books, eavesdropping when someone recited something interesting. She possessed a good poetic taste and skill to find amazing poems.

The first songs were “Cats”, “Yak” for the verses of William Jay Smith, “Star Catalog” Arseny Tarkovsky and “Medical Institute” by Sasha Cherny. The text for one of the most striking songs of the future program-“Yellow boots”-Aguzarova wrote herself, probably, starting from the mood of rock and roll standards “ Blue Su e de Shoes " and " Old Brown Shoe " . The first listeners of the young group without name were visitors to dance evenings in their native recreation center. Performed hits of the Italian stage, hits of Supermax and Secret groups Service . When all this was already completely unbearable, they diluted the program with loved ones Madness and The Police . They did not disdain the Soviet stage. So, Pugacheva’s song “Without me, my beloved ...”, according to many who heard her performed by Jeanne in those years, largely exceeded the original.

The stage image took shape quickly. The style of the Western musicians of the “New Wave”, spy in Western magazines, and sketches of dudes of the 50-60s (worn jackets, “Herring” ties, sharp-legged boots and “pants-pants”), seen in Soviet films, generally harmonized. Clothes corresponding to all the laws of the genre could be found from parents or buy for five to ten rubles in the legendary Tishka-the Moscow Tishinsky market. For the police, at that time concentrated at the detention of only the appeared aggressive “metallists” in glued skin and punks with “Iroquois”, the harmless new “dudes” at first had no interest.

Now, the general mood of the potential program was primarily determined by the groovy twisted-roller-roller intensity. Rehearsals were held in working mode, and finally it became possible to play a full solo set. Soon, Bravo was almost invited to play the rock festival in Dolgoprudny, which was organized by some Komsomol members, but the commission decided that the group was still not “not professional enough”.

The debut of the newly -minted group took place at the wedding of Yevgeny Havtan in a cafe at the Krasnoselskaya metro station, where the group was present as guests in full force. Празднующих развлекали приглашенные музыканты, а в конце мероприятия вышли сами «Браво» и сыграли практически весь репертуар, на тот момент состоявший из пяти песен. Подробности того веселого вечера канули в Лету, а после свадебного застолья двух своих музыкантов — барабанщика Пашу Кузина и бас-гитариста Андрея Конусова — Женя не мог найти еще несколько дней.