The name of Alexei Makarevich became known after the release of the first album of the legendary band "Resurrection". But the real fame brought him production. Three girls from the Lyceum won the hearts of millions of viewers.
Start
The birthplace of Alexei Lazarevich Meerovich was Moscow, the date is November 13, 1954. The surname Makarevich, taken by the boy later, was carried by his mother in girlhood. The life of Vera Grigoryevna was connected with biology. The family was related to creativity only along the lines of the father, and even that was of a technical nature. Lazar Natanovich Meerovich, a working factory engineer at a scientific institute, has patented several inventions. In addition to Lesha, his sister Lena grew up in the family, she was older.
After completing his studies at a comprehensive school, Alyosha decides to connect his life with architecture and continues his studies at the Moscow Architectural Institute. Within the walls of the university, the young man is seriously interested in music, and he connects his whole subsequent life with it. Together with Alexei Romanov, an associate in several musical projects, they, being successful students, went through expulsions from the institute according to delusional Soviet instructions “on cleansing students from hairy evil spirits” and subsequent restoration.
Back in the last century, the mid-70s, a young man created his first team, called it the “Danger Zone”, then, in the 76th, changing the name to “Kuznetsk Bridge”, in honor of the famous street in the center of Moscow. Even then, he wrote several songs that later became famous in the performance of the Resurrection.
"Sunday"
The history of the group, celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 1919, begins in the spring of the 79th year. The musically gifted architect becomes the solo guitarist of the band.
Young, ambitious, musicians without the proper equipment and any repertoire gathered for rehearsals in Makarevich’s apartment. In 2-3 weeks, about 10 songs were created, which were included in the first album of the Resurrection. The author of several of them was Alex. The genres of the works were very different: ballads, beat, rock and roll, funk, psychedelia.
The album was recorded at night in the recording studio of GITIS, a total of 16 singles were recorded. The last six songs belong to Konstantin Nikolsky.
The recordings were handed over to the familiar editor of the Moscow World Servise radio station broadcasting to the Western world during the preparation of the Olympics - 80. It so happened that for this period censorship was somewhat weakened, and the songs of the Resurrection group instantly became popular.
After a short rest, the team began preparing concert activities. Due to the fame of the repertoire, the audience enthusiastically received the artists. The song "Who is to blame" for many years has become the hallmark of the Resurrection, and the deeply philosophical work "The Musician" met the worldview of the most serious public.
Having existed for a year and a half, soaring to the very top of fame, the project disintegrates. Everyone had their own reasons. Makarevich, in particular, did not receive from his activity sufficient self-realization.
Fifteen years later, in '94, the guitarist returned to the famous band, but not for long.
Producer
The idea to engage in production came to the musician by chance. The adopted daughter Nastya invited him to the reporting concert at the children's pop theater, where she and her friends sang. Alexei, who was working as a stage designer at the time, looked at the girls from a professional point of view.
They were fundamentally different, each with a unique timbre, but all together it looked and sounded beautiful. In addition, the 91st year was a graduation in an amateur team, there were no further prospects. And Makarevich promised to create a girl’s alliance from them.
At the very beginning of the activity, the producer of the newly formed group "Lyceum" was responsible for every little thing: what the girls will be dressed in, how they go out, go out and look on the stage, how they are cut, what the singers gesticulate and facial expressions are. Many had to learn again.
Alexey Lazarevich was a demanding person, sometimes, to tediousness, and Nastya worked a lot with friends.
In the same year, the first performance of the team in the program "Morning Star" with the hit of the group ABBA. Charismatic girls noticed. The first independent songs were the works of the producer from the repertoire of the Resurrection. Later Makarevich wrote many songs for Lyceum. The most famous and beloved, of course, was Autumn. During the life of the producer, the Lyceum group released 10 albums.
Over the 28 years of the collective’s existence, the composition has changed more than once, but the daughter and singer Nastya is invariably the face and face, who became the producer after the death of the adoptive father and embodied his mandate - to grow and move forward.
The year 2002 was marked for the producer who took part in the television program "Become a Star", where his task was to select applicants for participation. As a result of the project, the young group "Other Rules" was born.
