“ You Are Not Better ” - a song written by the Soviet singer and composer Yuri Antonov in collaboration with Irina Bezladnova and Mikhail Belyakov in 1969.
| No you are more beautiful | |
|---|---|
| Executor | Singing guitars |
| Album | Wires |
| Date of issue | 1970 |
| Date Recorded | 1970 [1] |
| Duration | 3:24 (VIA " Singing Guitars ") 4:33 (VIA " Funny Guys ") |
| Label | Melody |
| Author | Yu.M. Antonov - I. Bezladnova, M. Belyakov |
| Album Track List Wires | |
For the first time performed by VIA " Singing Guitars " [1] , subsequently performed by Antonov himself.
Content
- 1 History of creation
- 2 Edition
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Creation History
The idea of the melody came to Yuri Antonov (at that time - the keyboard player of the ensemble "Singing Guitars") in a train on which the team went on a tour to Moldova . The author of the text was the then girlfriend of Antonov, an employee of Lenkontsert , Irina Bezladnova, who wrote the first two verses (Antonov made only one revision: in the line “Like an instant, it’s elusive ...” the moment that was unpronounceable from the performing point of view was replaced by “vision”) . Subsequently, Antonov considered that two verses would not be enough, but Irina at that time was busy with something and refused (later regretting it). The third verse was written by the guitarist of the ensemble “ Good fellows ” Mikhail Belyakov [1] .
Antonov did not participate in the recording of the song, leaving the band.
“When he left, he left a piece of musical paper on which this song was. He said: “Zhenya, it seems to me that this song will sound in your performance.” I marinated it for six months, forgot about it, then stumbled and literally in one night painted who should play. And so it turned out. ”
- Evgeny Bronevitsky (“ Singing Guitars ”) [1]
However, Bronevitsky, on the contrary, found the text too long and removed the second verse ( “If you had a closer look ...” ), adding a guitar solo [1] . The full version of the text sounded in the VIA version “ Jolly Fellows ” (vocalist - Leonid Berger), recorded presumably at the end of 1971 during a tour of Czechoslovakia .
Edition
“You Are Not Better” was published by the company “ Melody ” on the mini-album “Seeing Off” in 1970 (Albert Azizov was indicated instead of Bezladnova as a co-author of the song; the error was corrected in subsequent editions) [1] .
The song received a review on the first disc of the series "Meeting Place" in 1986 [2] .
In 1989, the song performed by the author was included in the album “ Life is a fairy tale ”, recorded by Egor Letov as part of the music project “Communism” .
In 1997, for the New Year's project “ Old Songs about the Main 3 ”, the song was performed by Vladimir Presnyakov Jr. [3] .
In 2015, the vocal group Kvatro recorded their version of the song.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hits of Yuri Antonov, part 1. “Time Z” No. 1/2015
- ↑ Meeting Point - Disco. Issue 1 on Discogs
- ↑ Old songs about the main 3 on the Discogs website