The rock of the eighties is characterized by the fact that new genres achieve the greatest success, and the directions of the previous years fade into the background. Rock bands of the 80s, created by very young musicians due to the desire to express themselves brightly, become the founders of new trends in rock.

Dire Straits achieved the greatest success in the 80s, performing blues-rock compositions with jazz elements. Depeche Mode musicians created their own unique style in the genre of electronic rock music. In the mid-eighties, the "Irish Invasion" begins. Dublin rock bands of the 80s, led by U2, bring their own style to the performance of post-punk, adding echoes of Irish ballads. Their album "The Joshua Tree", released in 1987, has been called one of rock's greatest albums.

During these years, rock music seems to be divided into two directions: there is just rock, and there is hard rock. The brightest representatives of the rock band of the 80s in the style of hard rock are the Americans "Guns N' Roses". The band gained worldwide popularity in 1987 with the release of their first album, Appetite for Destruction.

British heavy metal band "Iron Maiden" was perhaps the most famous of the representatives new wave British heavy metal (NWBHM). This new trend in rock music had a huge impact on the development of heavy metal in general. In 1981, under the name "Killers" became gold in all countries of the world.

In the eighties, a new direction in the style of heavy metal - thrash was formed. He combined heavy metal with its melodiousness and punk rock with its brutality and speed. Thrash in these years was the heaviest direction in rock music. The speed of the game has been pushed to the physical limit, the sound of the guitar

maximally distorted. Metallica not only spearheaded a new heavy direction, but also gained a reputation as a supergroup. The music of the 80s rock band "Metallica" is more complex than anything ever written in rock. Such complex structures, which were performed by "Metallica", have not yet known the world is the most commercially successful rock band. She has sold over 100 million copies of her albums worldwide.

In the 80s, the USSR developed its own rock wave

The first centers of the rock movement are being created. In Moscow in 1985, the "Rock Laboratory" was opened at the Palace of Culture. Gorbunov. The brightest Moscow music bands The 80s are "Time Machine", "Resurrection", "Sounds of Mu", "Brigade C", "Crematorium", "Bravo". During these years, heavy metal bands appeared in Moscow: Aria, Metal Corrosion, Master, Cruise, Black Coffee. A rock club operates in Leningrad, which includes the Aquarium, Alisa, and Kino groups. The Sverdlovsk Rock Club was represented by "Agatha Christie", "Nautilus Pompilius", "Nastya", "Chayf", "Urfin Juice". The groups DDT (Yuri Shevchuk), Alisa, Kino (Viktor Tsoi), Aquarium (Boris Grebenshchikov) became cult among fans. A feature of Russian rock was that the texts carried the main load. This was due to the expression of the strongest social protest that was seething in the minds and hearts of the people of that time. In 1986, an album was released in America, in which the most popular bands of the 80s in the USSR were presented. Russian rockers such as Gorky Park, E.S.T and others receive invitations to tour and record albums abroad.

We present to your attention photos from the project "Mototour for a lifetime". All photographs were taken by the German journalist Petra Gall at the turn of 1980-1990, commented on their project curator Mischa Baster.

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1. By the end of the 1980s, when the clashes between rockers and lyubers had already died down - even the New York Times wrote about them - no one climbed out onto the streets of the Arbat. Including appeared Hare Krishnas, who, with their awkward appearance and with a bubnezhka they annoyed others no less than motor-walker gangs.

2. Dancing near the cafe "Margarita" on the Patriarchs, in a strange way still working. Patricky in the 1980s was already quite an advanced place, but since Valera Lysenko (Hedgehog) from Mister Twister moved there, it has become associated with rockabilly parties. Mavriky Slepnev, who was captured in the photo, did a lot for this - the grandson of the Papanin and the son of a ballerina, who famously danced at the concerts of the "Misters". And then he got sick with a motorcycle and was doing knee-highs, already driving around the underpass Pushkin Square. We called this transition "pipe".

3. Typical Arbat picture of perestroika times, preserved to this day. Such tables with matryoshka leaders and other kitsch have nested next to the crowd since the late 1980s street artists. Moreover, it was like a facade, because there was also a brisk trade in deficit: foreign things, magazines, vinyl.

4. Sheremukha, aka Sharik: Sheremetyevo-2 Airport was a traditional place of night pilgrimage for rocker columns that started either from the backyard of the Moscow Art Theater or from Luzhniki. The purpose of the visits was to show oneself and scare foreigners. Plus be sure to visit the local cafe. The route to the airport often ran through the Badaevsky brewery and ended in the morning at the exit from the restaurant of the Moskva Hotel. There, paying 1 p. 50 kopecks, motorcyclists took out helmets from the buffet, stuffed to the brim with food.

5. Before the advent of special units to catch rockers, traffic cops on motorcycles caused outright laughter from hooligans. They couldn't keep up with motorcyclists, they rode awkwardly, and looked, let's say, much less fashionable than motorcycle police officers in helmets and leggings of the 1960s. Aesthetics sagged in these years on many fronts.

6. Backyards of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky is a place that became popular in 1987, when local trendy guys got on motorcycles and created an isolated hangout. Unlike concert-rocker associations that cultivated heavy metal, she, as if in opposition, preferred the rockabilly style and was inspired by the film Streets on Fire.

7. In 1987, Petra Gall met in Moscow with the Surgeon (Alexander Zaldastanov - founder of the Night Wolves motorcycle club), Edom (Eduard Ratnikov - president of the TCI concert agency, in the photo on the left), Rus (Ruslan Tyurin - founder of the Black Aces motorcycle club, on photo) and Garik (Assa, Oleg Kolomiychuk - character of the Moscow underground, died in 2012). She immediately fell into the epicenter of the rocker movement. As you can see from this picture, Ed and Roose's outfit combines the aesthetics of 1960s London street racers with sketchy ideas of 1950s American motorcycle gangs. The guys wanted to look the coolest, like in the movies and on the covers of foreign magazines.

9. Another photo from the stand-up. In one of these, on Herzen Street, an Arbat lyuber Shmel, who was looking for mythical fascists, found a trainee job, but instead of them he found us punks and fed us dumplings for free. After the collapse of the USSR, Shmel was renamed Pelmenya and, not finding the Nazis, became one himself, joining some Black Hundreds in the early 1990s.

10. The night center of Moscow in the late 1980s, filmed during some regular motorcycle tour with stops on Gorky Street for hot bread just brought from the factory to the Filippovskaya bakery. Now such a deserted Moscow immersed in darkness with crooked streets has been preserved extremely locally. Together with the mixed smell of wet asphalt and boulevard poplars, with strange passers-by, since all the non-strange people were cut off before the next labor feat, it can be safely called “Moscow that”.

11. Near this monument on Kaluga Square, skaters first appeared in the early 1980s - on the Riga "rules" and boards near Moscow. 10 years after the powerful rock wave of perestroika, the theme returned again, but in a different fashion. Wide pants - pipes and pyramids, heavy boots and hoodies rushed past against the backdrop of the same Soviet idols frozen in stone.

12. Sasha the Surgeon morally humiliates a randomly encountered lover on Pushka. There came a turning point for the rock movement, when the persecution of everything informal sharply intensified and lovers appeared. It was a collective movement under the auspices of bodybuilding near Moscow in Lyubertsy. Bodybuilders went to Moscow before, but they did not engage in frank social pressure. But those who mowed down like Lubers practiced a small gop-stop with might and main, for which they were merchandised. Sasha played an important role in this process, but, despite the fact that clashes between amateurs and rockers were overgrown with legends, more often such meetings ended in skirmishes and comical numbers.

13. Night departure of motorcycle hooligans in the spring of 1989. In such gangs, in the spirit of the movie "Mad Max", they rushed through the deserted streets of the city, having previously removed the silencers from their "Yav", "Chezets", and sometimes "Dnepr" with "Urals". For the most part, Moscow rockers were ordinary guys, whom the more advanced called "body warmers". By 1988, the movement had become so massive and noisy that in the USSR they began to make horror stories about them such as "Accident - the daughter of a cop."

14. In contrast to the previous Gothic: here is exaltation in Luzhniki in 1989 - at the Peace Festival. Despite the subsequent larger Monsters of Rock festival in 1991, the Peace Festival is remembered as the peak of the 1980s. There was no such atmosphere even at the first local concerts of Uriah Heep and Pink Floyd. Top stars were brought to Moscow, including Ozzy Osbourne, and for some reason they put Moscow new wavers from Stas Namin's pool on the same stage with them.

15. This is probably 1992. Difficult to establish, because in the 1990s the rocker theme was finally replaced by a biker one with heavy motorcycles, long forks and the first Russian bike clubs. In the photo - Tanya (Eremeeva. - Approx. ed.), a friend of the founder of one of the first motorcycle associations "Сossacs" Oleg, he is Kim Il Sung (Oleg Goch. - Approx. ed.). At the very beginning of the 1990s, he managed to go abroad and bring more or less modern Harleys.

16. Late 1980s, Gallery - as they called it Gostiny Dvor stylists hanging out there. A shabby, graffiti-covered, gothic-decadent piece of the Moscow Empire, filled with legends about the KGB cellars. In those years, an absolutely deserted corner of Moscow, in which the ominous silence was destroyed only by some kind of deaf rhythmic sound from the unit that worked in the courtyard of the Gostinka.

17. Petra Gall - the author of these photographs, a correspondent for the Zebra agency, a motorcycle photographer who actively participated in the feminist movement of the early 1990s in Germany. Her album is being prepared for publication by the Fotopro Premium publishing house. You can learn about the background of the project and support it on the planeta.ru website by searching for "Petra: a lifetime motorcycle tour."

What does it take to be a real rock star? First, be calm and confident on stage. Second, write songs for the ages. Thirdly, to be able to seduce fans with one glance and know a lot about cool clothes. "Aren't there too many rules?"- thought the musicians from this photo collection and spit on all the canons.

So the jokes are over. The most in front of you prominent representatives rock elite of the 1980s. Public opinion- nothing, outrageous - everything! After viewing these photos, it is recommended to throw the "goat" and roar well.

1. Belarusian metal band "Strike"

2. American heavy metal band Manowar, known for their loud and long concerts

3. Experimental metal band Venom

4. Twisted Sister, heavy metal with glam metal elements

5. American glam metal band Pretty Boy Floyd

6. Kings of heavy metal - Judas Priest

7. Hilang Celera

8. Glam Rock Christian Rock Band: Meet Stryper!

9. Heavy metal band W.A.S.P. and co-founder Randy Piper

10. Japanese heavy metalists X Japan

11. Thrash performed by the first African-American band in the style of heavy metal Black Death

12. Avant-garde madness from American rockers Tunnel of Love

And how to do without grateful fans ...

Unfortunately or fortunately, the eye-catching style of the metalworkers of the 80s has not survived to this day. Just imagine, dressed in leopard tights and leather tank tops with studs in BDSM style. Brrr! Fuck me!

Do you listen to heavy music? Let us know which band shocked you the most.

In the era of perestroika, new youth movements began to appear in the Soviet Union, whose members we call informals. Informals existed even before the beginning of perestroika, but it was at that time that their number increased significantly, and in almost every big city The USSR could meet representatives of different movements. This post will allow us to understand the diversity of informal societies.

Hippie

The heyday of the movement based on music lovers, psychedelic and hardrock addictions, which gave rise to an all-Union system of registrations, forest and beach camps, home concerts, as well as hitchhiking, fell on the mid-70s. By the beginning of the 80s, the fashion for hippies swept the capitals, in Moscow hippie communication covered the Boulevard Ring, Arbat and Mayakovsky Square.

Hippie 1984

Hippie. Not far from Tourist, 1988

Hippie. At the entrance to Saigon, 1987

dudes

In the 1980s, the movement was revived due to the interest of young people in retro style. These groups appeared in Leningrad under the name of "secretists" in Leningrad, and in Moscow they were called "bravistists" (after the names of the Bravo and Secret groups)

Stilyagi. Anton Teddy and comrades, 1984. Photo by Dmitry Konrad

Stilyagi. Rus Ziggel and Teddy Boys. Leningrad, 1984. Photo by Dmitry Konrad

Wide Stilyagi. Moscow, 1987

newwavers

The new wave movement received a rather vague manifestation in Soviet society. Initially based on music lovers in the form of electronic experiments and the aesthetics of post-punk "new romantics", domestic new wavers compiled their external aesthetics on the basis of "clean style", hairstyles of a certain type and make-up, with elements absorbed from other already established movements, ranging from breaking glasses, ending with post-punk "dark style"
After 1985, following the partial legalization of foreign non-radical styles, the popularization of disco and the rise of the metal wave, the general mass of the "new wave" was divided into two camps. Disco fans of foreign pop and branded items and labeled "poppers" because of the fascination with pop music of the 80s. And more advanced mods - new wavers, who were in close contact with the creative underground, experimenting within the framework of mod and post-punk traditions.

Newwavers. Leningrad, 1984

Newwavers. Newwave at MEPhI, 1983

Newwavers. At the Lighthouse, 1990

Breakers

In the early 80s, the echoes of the hip-hop movement reached the Soviet youth, they manifested themselves in the form of a movement of "breakers" (according to an unauthorized local definition dance style). Originally a lifestyle that combined skateboarding and disco dance, this style was represented by a small student fashion environment and the "golden youth" of the South-West of Moscow. But by the mid-80s, after the opening of youth cafes and the release of the film "Dancing on the Roof", the breakers were presented only as a dance subculture, with their experiments in the field of appearance.

Breakers. Arbat, 1986. Photo by Sergey Borisov

Breakers. Arbat, 1987. Photo by Yaroslav Maev

Break dance, 1987

rockabilly

The style itself became widespread thanks to the pan-European revival of classic rock and roll and the beginning of the psychobilly movement in the second half of the 80s. In the Soviet Union, this manifestation was superimposed on the New Waver costume fashion, but already after 86 years it became isolated, partly in the Kupchinsky underground (Leningrad), partly rocker (Moscow, Moscow Art Theater), and among the Elvis Presley fan club (Moscow) with party places at the station. metro Revolution Square and the Catacombs (the ruins of the Greek Hall)

Rockabilly. Hedgehog and Moor, 1987

Rockabilly. Leningrad, 1987

Rockabilly. Rockabilly on the Arbat, 1989

rockers

The term "rockers" appeared in the early 80s and was originally applied to Soviet fans of rock music. But, already since 1984, the label "rocker" has stuck with hard rock fans, who gravitate towards external styling similar to British "coffee bar cowboys" and American bike clubs. In September 1984 (Coverdale's birthday), the term was raised to the flag by a group of heavy rock fans at the TsPKO. Gorky, and later spread to the first moto gangs of Moscow "Black aces" and "Street wolfs", then to all moto associations until 1989

Rockers, 1987

Rockers, in the backyard of the Moscow Art Theater, 1988

Rockers, Night out, 1988

Metalworkers

Actually, the term “metal-worker” itself originated at philophonic parties back in the early 80s, when at the turn of the decades the rhythms of the bands, which had previously been called “hard rock” by Soviet standards, changed. The “heavy metal” slogan, traced from foreign magazines, initially applied to “kisomaniacs” and other fans of “hardrock” of the early 80s. Metal corrosion”, “E.S.T.” and other groups of fans began to be called "metalheads" /

Metalworkers from Gorky, 1987

Metalworkers. VDNH, 1986

Metalworkers. XMP-89, Omsk

Punks

The most ideological, and at the same time apolitical, movement received its first manifestations at the turn of the 80s. Lacking the completeness of visual information about foreign analogues, but understanding the effectiveness of the artistic caricature lifestyle, this phenomenon manifested itself in the form of parody street idiocy, artistic foolishness, gradually acquiring non-Soviet paraphernalia, music and art.
Being the most “offensive” social manifestations for the Soviet menclature (frankly discrediting the image of a Soviet citizen in front of foreign tourists), “Soviet punk” was subjected to the most intense pressure from the Komsomol members, the police and gopots. All this led to radicalization; the fusion of punks and rockers, the formation of hardcore, krusty and cyberpunk styles, with the first "Iroquois" on deranged heads of carriers. To the surprise of the representatives of the Soviet punk underground, when information gaps were discovered in the Iron Curtain, it turned out that these manifestations coincided with the advanced global subcultural trends.

Punks. DK Gorbunovo, 1987

Punks. Leningrad, 1986. Photo by Natalia Vasilyeva

Punks. Moscow, 1988

Fashion

With the filing of the first "new dudes" and having received its starting impetus from the mod movement of the 60s, the USSR received a reverse vector of development from Soviet punk to vintage motifs of the past. At the same time, without losing radicalism at all, the Soviet “mod styling” of the period of avant-garde artistic movements of the 80s became a hallmark for many participants in musical and artistic projects, uniting diverse artistic people who gravitated towards music omnivorousness and let through all the latest innovations from fashion and music. Such characters, disparagingly referred to in the art environment as “mods”, participated in most key shows and performances, were carriers of the latest fashionable and near-cultural information, and often shocked the population with costumes and punk antics parodying socio-menklotura costumes.

Fashion. Moscow, 1988

Fashion. Moscow, 1989. Photo by Evgeny Volkov

Fashion. Chelyabinsk, early 80s

hardmodes

A short-term manifestation of this intermediate foreign style of the 70s occurred at the end of the 80s, in connection with the rallying of radical informal circles during the opposition to pressure and the influx of a new wave of truly marginal elements, following the popularization of informal movements at the turn of 87-88 (accurately after a turning point in street battles with "lubers" and gopniks). It is worth noting that such manifestations in a caricatured ironic form were present in the vastness of our homeland, when radical informals dressed up in protoskinhead outfits, cut their heads bald out of harm, and crowded in crowded places. Frightening with their appearance the policemen and the townsfolk, who in all seriousness listened to Soviet propaganda, that de all informals are fascist thugs. The hardmodes of the late 80s were a sublimation of the punk, rockabilly and militaristic style, and of course, having never heard about how they should be called according to the stylistic classification, they preferred the self-name "streetfighters" and "militarists".

Hardmodes. Red Square, 1988

Hardmodes. Moscow Zoo, 1988

psychobills

Psychobilly, being to a greater extent manifested itself in Leningrad at the turn of the 90s, together with the Swidlers and Meantreitors groups, when groups of young people formalized this direction musically, standing out from the rockabilly environment. But even before that, there were individual characters who fell outside the framework of the new subcultural leagues and preferred rock and roll polymelormania. In terms of dress code, this attraction was close to punk aesthetics.

Psychobills. In the courtyard of a rock club, 1987. Photo by Natalia Vasilyeva

Psychobills. Leningrad, 1989

Psychobills. Muscovites visiting Leningraders, 1988. Photo by Evgeny Volkov

Bikers

During the clashes with gopniks and "lubers" in the period from 1986 to 1991, special active groups stood out in the rocker and heavy metal environment, which at the turn of the 90s were transformed from motto gangs into the first motto clubs. With its visual paraphernalia, modeled on foreign bike clubs, and on heavy motorcycles, modernized by hand or even post-war trophy samples. Already by the 90th year in Moscow it was possible to distinguish the groups "Hell Dogs", "Night wolves", "Сossacs Russia". There were also less long-term motorcycle associations, such as "ms Davydkovo". The self-name bikers, as a symbol of the separation of this stage from the rocker past, was first assigned to a group that rallied around Alexander Surgeon, and then spread to the entire motto movement, gradually covering many cities of the post-Soviet space

Bikers. Surgeon, 1989. Photo by Petra Gall

Bikers. Kimirsen, 1990

Bikers. Night Wolves on Pushka, 1989. Photo by Sergey Borisov

Bikers. Theme, 1989

Beatniks

A phenomenon no less multifaceted than the aesthetics of punk, Soviet beatnik originates from the distant 70s. When fashionable decadents visiting haunts, growing their hair below their shoulders and dressed up in leather jackets and “beatlovki” fell under this term. This term also included “labukhs” - musicians playing music to order in Soviet restaurants, and simply people outside some kind of “leagues”, leading an isolated and immoral, from the point of view of Soviet aesthetics, lifestyle. This trend by the early 80s was aggravated by a casual appearance, defiant behavior and the presence of some kind of distinctive element in clothing. Be it a hat or a scarf or a bright tie.

Beatniks. Bitnichki, Timur Novikov and Oleg Kotelnikov. Photo by Evgeny Kozlov

Beatniks. Parade on the first of April, Leningrad-83

Beatniks. Chelyabinsk, late 70s

fans

The movement, which originated in the late 70s and consisted of "kuzmichi" (simple stadium visitors) and traveling elite who accompanied the teams to matches in other cities, by the beginning of the 80s had found its regional leaders, acquired "gangs", merchandise and turned into football-related communication. Following the quick start of Spartak fans (most famous center hangouts of the early 80s was the beer bar "Sayan" on the station. Schelkovskaya metro station), which held their city actions and parades, just as quickly began to appear "gangs" around other teams

Fans. Moscow, 1988. Photo by Victoria Ivleva

Fans. Moscow-81. Photo by Igor Mukhin

Fans. Acceptance of a Zenith fan in Dnepropetrovsk-83

Lubera

A peculiar direction formed at the junction of the bodybuilding hobby and the youth supervision program.
Initially assigned to a local group of people from Lyubertsy, who often stay in the capital in places of recreation for young people, the name "Lyubera" has been interpolated since the year 87 not only to heterogeneous groups that do not have connections with each other, but also to larger groups that concentrated during this period in the TsPKO named after Gorky and Arbat. Zhdan, Lytkarinsky, state farm Moscow, Podolsky, Karacharovsky, Naberezhnye Chelnovskaya, Kazan - this is an incomplete list of the "brotherhood near Moscow" that tried to control not only the designated territories, but also other hot places and railway station squares. Initially encouraged by the authorities who hoped to place these formations in the canvas of the "people's squad" ", these groups did not have a common dress code except for sportswear, but also had conflicting interests consolidated only as part of aggression against fashionistas and "informals".

Luber. 1988

Luber. Africa and Lubera, 1986 Photo by Sergey Borisov

Luber. Lubera and Podolsky in Gorky Central Park of Culture, 1988

In the late 1980s, rock music gained immense popularity. Western rock bands stirred the creation of people around the world, and in the USSR, many of them were banned. But are there any barriers to music? Rock was listened to, and rock music fans tried to imitate their idols in clothes and hairstyles. In this review, the most photographs of the most outrageous musicians of that time.

1. AC/DC is the most successful rock band in Australia and one of the best around the world.

2. Metallica is an American heavy metal band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles.

3. "Rammstein" - a cult German rock band

4. German rock band playing in the style of heavy metal - "Accept"

5. Finest hour of the group "Helloween"

6. "Blind Guardian" ("Blind Guard") - German metal band, formed in 1984 in the city of Krefeld

7. " deep purple" - British rock band playing in the hard rock genre, first known - under the name "Roundabout"

8. British rock band Led Zeppelin

9. Nightwish is a Finnish English-language metal band formed by Tuomas Holopainen in 1996 in Kitee.

10. The most successful Russian rock band "Aria"

11. "Sodom" - German metal band from Gelsenkirchen

12. Pantera - American groove metal band

13. British bass player and vocalist, founder and permanent member of the rock band - Lemmy

14. "Slayer" ("killer") - American thrash metal band

15. "Judas Priest" - British heavy metal band, had a huge impact on the development of metal

16. Manowar is an American heavy metal rock band.