Biography of Mikhail Naumenko

The first Soviet musician, combining the root Anglo-American rock traction with texts in the genre of household realism. The general public is known as the author of the songs “Bugi-Wui every day” and “rubbish”. The nickname "Mike" received when he studied in the English special school. Former wife Mike, Natalya, claims that the school teacher of English first called him for the first time.

Born on April 18 in the family of Leningrad intellectuals. In childhood, I did not engage in music. The hobby for music began with the moment when Mike first heard the music of Beatles. He began to write songs at school, after his grandmother gave him a guitar. The first songs were written in English. Mike studied in a special school and spoke his tongue well. The first texts in Russian were written in, under the influence of Boris Grebenshchikov.

In addition to music, he was fond of the manufacture of aircraft models, translations from English. After school, at the insistence of his father, he entered the fox, but after the fourth year he threw his studies. All this time was a musician. In the second half of the x, Mike played in the group "Union of Lovers of Music Rock", performed with the aquarium. In Mike, together with the leader of the Aquarium, B.

For a long time, Mike played in many little-known Leningrad groups by a bass player, played under the comic name “Chuck Beri’s vocal and instrumental group” with a repertoire from classic rock and rolls. He performed a lot of solo and only in the year of the year the team was an amateur team, after which the tariffing at the Len Concert was held. In the middle of X the group collected stadiums.

At the end of Mike, health problems appeared, which aggravated household turmoil and alcohol abuse. He was left by his wife. Motorika’s left hand deteriorated sharply, which led to difficulties in the game on the guitar. He died on August 27 from hemorrhage into the brain as a result of an accident in your apartment. The drummer of the Zoo group Valery Kirilov expressed the opinion that Mike was killed in his memoirs, but most people who were familiar with the circumstances of the death of Mike do not confirm this hypothesis.

He was buried in the Volkovsky cemetery in Leningrad. Most Mike songs are sung in the first person. But according to the author, this did not mean at all that he was exactly the same as the person, on behalf of which the song was sung. Many songs written by Naumenko were performed by other rock groups. Many ranked Mike for the so -called intelligent rock. What are they discussing?