I'm sorry that the current Yuz prose writer, even - imagine a novelist is a novelist, let's put such stress - somehow overshadowed his early lyrics, his old songs. In those first songs I still love them most of all, perhaps because some of them were born before my eyes what did he do in those songs? He sent all this Soviet order to them for the same thing . But he did it not as a hooligan, but as a poet, whose songs became folklore and lost the author. In the last century there were such things - "Among the valleys are equal...", "You can't hear the noise of the city...", "Step to step around...". Then - "Step to step ...", in our time - "Comrade Stalin, you are a great scientist" . New Time - New Songs . We went to ascribe Vysotsky or Galich, or someone else, but it's up to Vysotsky and Galich, in the 50s still years. In this then suddenly sounded the sound of an unheard of free creativity pre-written, as Beatov called it was then the first (or one of the very first). "Intelligence Sings Blat songs". Blatny? Not without that - but my favorite is not even the famous "Cuckoo", but "Personal Date", and this is folk lyrics . "The wallpaper blue color pretty poured out, in the iron door a round eye, in the corner a portrait of comrade Kalinin, silent, as in our house a sample ... Duty in the eye throw jokes, cry out sadly outside the window: "Give it to your wife for a minute, on all her lighter divorce" . "Sit down, wife, in a green car..."In those 60s it happened that Yuz Aleshkovsky (not with a guitar, but with a beat on the table with his palms) and Nikolai Rubtsov . performed their songs at the same table. And after "Comrade Stalin" and "Soviet Easter" sounded rumbling "knocked on the pocket - does not ring… "Down in the mist a distant wharf … (I forgot all the good news that night, all the calls and bells from the Kremlin gate, I loved all the prison songs that night, all the forbidden thoughts, all the persecuted people … however, this pre-written can not be prescribed with text outside the musical sound). The audience consisted of Vladimir Sokolov, Vadim Kozhinov, Lena Ermilova, Irina Bocharova, Irina Nikiforova, Andrey Bitov, Herman Plisetsky, Anatoly Predreev, Stanislav Kunyaev, Vladimir Korolev, Georgi Gachev, Sergo Lominadze … Let's try to present already 15 years later this company at one table … Sergey Bocharov