Autograph is a
rock bandRock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was...
from the
Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
and
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
.
The group was founded in 1979 by Alexander Sitkovetsky, and achieved a considerable success at the
first Soviet state-sanctioned rock festivalThe "Spring Rhythms. Tbilisi-80" was a musical event held in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union, from March 8 to March 16 1980...
held in Tbilisi, Georgia with the song 'Blues Caprice'. In 1984 vocalist
Arthur BerkutArthur Vecheslavovich Mikheev , better known under his stage name Arthur Berkut , is a Russian singer. Through his career he participated in numerous bands, most notable are Autograph, Mavrik, and Aria....
joined the band.
Autograph was atypical for a
Russian rockRussian rock refers to rock music made in Russia and/or in Russian. Rock and roll became known in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and quickly broke free from its western roots...
band, playing more instrumental-based sound and much less symbolist lyrics. They are credited as a pioneering Soviet
progressiveProgressive rock is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility."...
/
art rockArt rock is a term describing a subgenre of rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture." Art rock is an "intrinsically album-based" form, which takes "advantage of the format's capacity for longer, more complex compositions and...
band.
Autograph performed live on
Live AidLive Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on . The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. Billed as the 'global jukebox', the event was held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium, London and JFK Stadium, Philadelphia...
, being transmitted live from Moscow.
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Autograph is a
rock bandRock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was...
from the
Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
and
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
.
The group was founded in 1979 by Alexander Sitkovetsky, and achieved a considerable success at the
first Soviet state-sanctioned rock festivalThe "Spring Rhythms. Tbilisi-80" was a musical event held in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union, from March 8 to March 16 1980...
held in Tbilisi, Georgia with the song 'Blues Caprice'. In 1984 vocalist
Arthur BerkutArthur Vecheslavovich Mikheev , better known under his stage name Arthur Berkut , is a Russian singer. Through his career he participated in numerous bands, most notable are Autograph, Mavrik, and Aria....
joined the band.
Autograph was atypical for a
Russian rockRussian rock refers to rock music made in Russia and/or in Russian. Rock and roll became known in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and quickly broke free from its western roots...
band, playing more instrumental-based sound and much less symbolist lyrics. They are credited as a pioneering Soviet
progressiveProgressive rock is a form of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility."...
/
art rockArt rock is a term describing a subgenre of rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture." Art rock is an "intrinsically album-based" form, which takes "advantage of the format's capacity for longer, more complex compositions and...
band.
Autograph performed live on
Live AidLive Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on . The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. Billed as the 'global jukebox', the event was held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium, London and JFK Stadium, Philadelphia...
, being transmitted live from Moscow. The group comprised 5 members - guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, and a singer. The signature song they performed was "Нам нужен мир" (or
Nam Nuzhen Mir - We Need Peace).
Disbanded in 1990, the group reunited in December 2004 and performed a series of concerts in Russian cities in 2005.