Viktor Tsoi, blood type

"Blood Group" is a song by the band "Cinema" from the album of the same name. In the playlist of the album takes the first place. The premiere of the song took place on June 3, 1987 at the Fifth Festival of the Leningrad rock club, but, according to eyewitnesses, the audience took the song coldly - maybe because everyone was waiting for hits already known at that time. During the performance at the festival, as part of the group, along with four musicians of the Kino group, there were their familiar artists Sergey "Africa" Bugaev behind the drums and Andrey Krisanov with the bass guitar. Song History The cellist of the Aquarium group Vsevolod Gakkel suggests that it was he who suggested the phrase "blood group" to Viktor Tsoi for the name of his group. The "movies" appeared later, they were younger than us, but we all somehow communicated. I even remember that the phrase "blood group" itself was thrown up by me in some companionable conversation as the name of a certain group. Probably, this phrase has been deposited somewhere in his subcortex. And then it came up in the song. Vsevolod Gakkel Nevertheless, Alexander Bashirov said in several interviews that it was he who suggested the idea of the song to Viktor Tsoi. "At that time I was dressed in a black naval overcoat - I took it from the costumers at the studio — and in a tunic, or rather, in a jacket, a tank dermatin. And here a diamond was made with bleach, and on it — the number "3". I told Victor that it was a blood type - I was joking, and he called the song that way, there are words there "blood type on the sleeve, my serial number" and so on. I laughed about it afterwards: "Vitya, you're like Anna Akhmatova: "When would you know from what rubbish poems grow without knowing shame!" — Alexander Bashirov On September 18, 1999, "Our Radio" and "Kommersant-Daily" held an action "Everything is in our hands" in favor of victims of terrorist attacks. The original track of the song, which was recorded in a French studio, was put up for auction. The starting price for it was $ 50. The track was bought for $ 3000 by Gennady Dmitrievich Piryazev The video for the song became the first Russian video to appear on the VH1 Russia TV channel (December 1, 2005) In 2008, the song became known to a wide range of foreign listeners - due to the fact that it is included in the soundtrack to the popular game "Grand Theft Auto IV". #Victortsoi #bloodtype