Once, Alexander Pushnoy brilliantly covered the song “I’m Losing My Roots” by the band Korni in the style of Splean and Boris Grebenshchikov (BG). At the end, he concluded with the phrase, “The song is nothing; the performance is everything.”
This happens with other songs as well. Many years ago, the Otpetye Moshenniki released a pop song called “Love Me” that played everywhere but remained just a pop song. Until it was performed by the relatively unknown singer Grechka. And here, as they say, “feel the difference.” The song immediately took on a completely new life. I first heard it in the series “Peace! Friendship! Chewing Gum!“ (which, by the way, is a pretty decent show about teenagers in the ’90s). Take a listen yourself:
An additional fact about this song: its author is Alexander Kozlov, the founder, keyboardist, and composer of many songs for the band “Agata Kristi.”
