When do you think our stage suddenly began to rapidly turn into an outright “dovecote”? If you scrutinize (excuse the pun) in the annals, then there is only one conclusion - from the moment the “Bachelor Party” group appeared. Moreover, Dan (Andrey Kotov), Dolphin (Andrey Lysikov) and Mutabor (Pavel Galkin) themselves were not rear-wheel drive. However, behind the cute boys singing about chicks there was a powerful gay lobby.
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The sex revolution, which broke out after the bourgeois coup of 1991, released many perverts from the underground. Moreover, homosexuals in some professions have rapidly turned from a minority into a majority. It was then that 22-year-old adventurer Alexey Adamov , protected by a large government official, started the country’s first magazine for homosexuals, “Bachelor Party.” It was for its promotion that a musical group was hastily assembled from cool dancing boys, who were dressed in expensive clothes bought from speculators.
— Initially, the group was created as a boy band, similar to the then popular New Kids On The Block. Sugar boys moving to a soundtrack,” recalled Dolphin . “Then it seemed boring to me to just open my mouth at the microphone. So I suggested making more relevant, popular topics. This is how the scandalous song “Sex without a break” was born.
Sergey Shnurov: “ Previously, sex education was carried out at school. And it was held in the toilet: the boys went into the toilet, and there they were shown photographs of naked women. “The Bachelor Party brought this culture out of the toilet and onto the stage.”
Andrey Lysikov came to “Bachelor Party” later than others. He was recommended to Adamov as a text writer. For just ten bucks, Andrei agreed to write several songs for the group. In the end, it turned out that he reads them better than others. And Dan (Kotov) and Mutabor (Galkin) sculpted the music well, borrowing ideas from their colleagues.
The design of the albums, as well as the behavior of the guys, was extremely unbridled
“They sampled, in short, everyone,” admits Pavel Galkin. — Fragments came from everywhere. I had a bunch of records, ranging from The Town Musicians of Bremen to children's fairy tales and jazz orchestras. They took a lot of funk. And the result was such a digestible mix that raised people’s mood, brought a smile and surprise.
By the way, on Arbat, where Adamov looked for boys, Dolphin not only danced, but also sold souvenirs. One day he was caught by the cops, whom he did not pay on time. In the monkey house, Andryusha was indignant: “On what basis?” and in response I heard: “Be silent at all, otherwise you will die like a dolphin” (a dolphin in thieves’ jargon is a victim of rape). After that, the boys began to tease Lysikov, calling him Dolphin. That's how the nickname stuck.
Andrei Kotov received the nickname Dan (from the English dance - dance), because he was the coolest b-boy in Arbat - he performed such somersaults that he easily won international breaking competitions. Dan was incredible at doing “glides” (something like a “moonwalk”) and unsurpassed at spinning the “helik” (an element of the lower break in the form of a rotation on the back along two axes).
The design of the albums, as well as the behavior of the guys, was extremely unbridled
The word “mutabor” was taken by Pasha Galkin from the cartoon “Caliph the Stork”, where it was a magic spell that turns a person into an animal.
Go away!
“The Bachelor Party didn’t come out of nowhere,” says PR specialist Roman Maslennikov , who wrote the book “The Bachelor Party” in 2013. “Sex without a break” forever.” — In my opinion, this is the most media- and PR-successful group that has grown out of the entire vast hip-hop community. At the same time, he absorbed all the best that was then in this environment. And the “group ban” move! And please! “The Bachelor Party” ranks with the banned Vysotsky and other famous poets.
Roman, of course, got excited about Vladimir Semenovich. However, it’s true: after the performance of “Bachelor Party” with the relatively innocent song “Dancing” in the “Muzoboz” program was unexpectedly closed for three minutes by a squeaking “net,” interest in the group increased significantly. But they started as the opening act for Sektor Gaza, which was promoted by the same Adamov.
“It was a concert in Minsk on the circus stage,” Dolphin shared. “I entered the arena in shorts and a hockey jersey, with a chain with a Volkswagen sign on my chest, a backwards baseball cap and huge basketball sneakers. He began to imitate some kind of song, and suddenly the whole circus stood up. And I saw that all these people in the stands were wearing pyramid jeans with Team Boy sweaters tucked into them. I realized that I was in trouble. They threw eggs, tomatoes... They shouted: “Go away, ******!”
The design of the albums, as well as the behavior of the guys, was extremely unbridled
Dan – Andrey Kotov
Andrei Kotov, who took the creative pseudonym Dan, has never been modest. Today, when talking about his life, the former boy band member never tires of praising himself.
“No matter what I did, no matter what I undertook, I always achieved success. In the 1980s, he became interested in breakdancing. He gave his all in training. The result - became the national champion. Later he organized a hip-hop group, which you all know very well about. After the “Bachelor Party” I became a DJ, which is what I still do,” Kotov briefly told about himself.
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“There was a time when we were tired of endless touring. Then we announced that our boy band was going on an endless vacation. It seemed like we would never want to perform on the big stage again. But the fatigue passed, and we decided that there would be a “Bachelor Party” after all! But my main activity is DJing. I teach the younger generation, because passing on my skills to someone is the most important thing,” Dan added.
Severed ear
Alexey Sochnev in 2015 in his only interview . RU". — One day, the RTR TV channel invited us to film a concert in Luzhniki at the Druzhba arena. The hall at that time could accommodate three to four thousand spectators. All tickets have been sold. As a joke, in the advertising campaign we announced free entry for guys. About 15 thousand came along with the freeloaders.
People began to gather by three o'clock. The entire ramp, walkways, roadway and embankment were simply clogged. The movement stopped. We could not open the entrance doors, since they did not open into the room, but towards the street. People were pressed against the glass, they could not even move. One guy had his ear cut off by broken glass, there was a lot of blood. Everyone watched in horror as dozens of teenagers screamed and jumped on the roofs of parked cars. My wife stood at the service entrance in the first rows, her sheepskin coat left without a sleeve.
Participants of the Paris vacation: Aizenshpis, Stashevsky, Dairabaev, Lysikov, Adamov. Photo from personal archive
By six in the evening the police general in charge of order in Moscow arrived. What started here, how he screamed! All Luzhniki services, the police, and the cadets were called. The general gathered everyone in the director’s office and, in an orderly tone, announced the cancellation of the concert. He said that I need to pray to God that the ramp with people in it does not collapse and crush anyone, and threatened with twenty years in prison if even one person died.
Yuri Aizenshpis was present as our guest . He called someone and complained that the general was exceeding his authority and said that he wanted to disrupt the concert. Sergei Lisovsky , Alexander Lyubimov , the management of the VID and RTR companies, several other generals, and film crews arrived Everyone started congratulating us on such a huge success.
The clock hands were approaching nine in the evening, and everyone was gathered in some assembly hall. The general continued to yell and insist that the concert be canceled immediately. There was deathly silence in the hall. Lyubimov gets up and says: “General, your time has passed, and you can’t just cancel the event because your services couldn’t cope with the job. The concert will take place!” He walked out to the applause of everyone present, and the general followed right behind him. A few minutes later the director of Luzhniki comes up and says that the show continues. But we had to somehow open the entrance doors, because it was already ten o’clock, and people continued to stand. The police could not do anything.
Adamov spent fun days in Mallorca with Dolphin and Shatunov. Photo from personal archive
I came up with a super idea - to announce on the radio that at the gas station, which was located opposite the arena, they were starting to give out free cassettes with the Bachelor Party album, and there were only a thousand of them. It worked. Ten minutes later the entrance to the hall was opened.
The poor saleswoman at the gas station - of course, no one warned her. A few days later I visited her and presented her with a huge bouquet of flowers and a hundred dollars.
We never used the footage of that concert anywhere, but the promo turned out great, all of Moscow was talking about it.
At the bottom of the pit
The grown men made huge money from these boys. They only received imported clothes and free trips around Europe. For example, one day they spontaneously decided to celebrate Dolphin’s birthday in Paris. And the crowd, led by Aizenshpis, who took with him the young Vladik Stashevsky , went to the capital of France for two weeks to have fun with the boys. And there was also a case when the same gay company landed in Mallorca. Where Adamov with his snow-white ass seduced Yura Shatunov , who joined the others together with the administrator of “Tender May” Rashid Dayrabaev (at the beginning of the 2000s he would promote another sweet boy, Baskov , to the stage, and shortly before his death in 2013 he would blurt out that Kolya is gay).
Years will pass, and not a single participant in those events will publicly remember these dark moments. As soon as they talk about drugs.
Recently Dan-Andrey and his Roxana had a beautiful wedding at sea. Photo from personal archive
— Olen ( Oleg Bashkatov , who replaced Dan during his temporary departure from the group. - O.E. ) was killed by heroin. He used to use before show business, but then he went completely off the rails,” Dolphin confessed in an interview with MK. - I was just playing around. Snorted heroin. But one fine day a close friend came to me and said that if I didn’t quit, he would no longer communicate with me. And I decided to end it. A month later I realized what hole I was lying at the bottom of.
The Bachelor Party's Dolce Vita did not last long - only a couple of years.
“There are several reasons for the collapse of the group,” says Maslennikov. — One of them is financial. The producer, apparently, decided to “fix the profit.” Adamov sold the same album, with the same name, to three record companies, that is, three times... This happened within a few hours of each other! And he went to America with all the money.
Pavel Galkin - father. Photo from personal archive
A criminal case was opened, Interpol was involved, but the fugitive was not found.
“The almighty and long-armed Yuri Shmilevich Aizenshpis even looked for him through his channels,” recalled Mutabor . - He called me: “Listen, Mutaborchik, you have this Adamov there, where is he? He borrowed such an inconvenient amount of money from me...” They were afraid to deceive Shmilich, but ours took a risk.
Pavel Galkin - son. Photo from personal archive
Mutabor: Pavel Galkin
Unlike Dan, Pavel Galkin turned out to be more modest. The 49-year-old participant in “The Bachelor Party” devoted himself entirely to his family, periodically going on tour with Andrei Kotov. Mutabor's most vivid memories are associated with the chaos of the 90s.
“All the artists were protected by bald guys. Us too. In addition, we were “warmed up” by our producer, who packed his suitcases of money and fled to the USA,” Galkin recalls with a smile on his face.
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Pavel has been married for a long time and has two beautiful children. The eldest son of a hip-hop artist, who is 28 years old, is absolutely indifferent to the work of his star father. As Galkin admits, his son prefers hard rock.
Leather bullet between legs
Decades later, Adamov will show up under the name Alex Clark , create the OE music channel and promote it first in Latvia, then in Ukraine. He will fall in love with Max Barskikh so much that he will promote him to Eurovision. But music video director Alan Badoev , wildly jealous, will not let his boyfriend participate in the competition.
“I would never go back to the 90s,” Clark-Adamov cried several years ago. “It wasn’t profitable to work at all.” In the cities where we toured, there was a shortage of food, hot water was turned off in hotels. Banditry flourished. Life was scary. Every time, before entering or leaving the entrance, I had to charge the gas pistol and send the driver on reconnaissance. One day, my colleague and I were attacked. They shot me right in the face, but I was lucky - the gun misfired. In Volgograd, our backup dancers were kidnapped and almost raped; in Kazan, the entire group was taken hostage on New Year’s Eve. Thanks to Lisovsky, he saved us once again. I was not in the mood to do what I loved at all, and I decided to leave. The group remained on its own. Many thanks to my friend Alexey Vinogradov, who replaced me and did not let them die of hunger.
As a thank you, the boys will dedicate a song to Vinogradov with the words: “He has as many **** women as you could not yet!/ Has a leather bullet in a holster between his legs, and with this bullet he has already shot a thousand ****!../ Look, another one is twirling her ass and neighing/ And Vinogradov won’t miss, he’ll shoot her in the mouth.”
By the way, surprisingly, they themselves turned out to be not only heterosexuals, but also not womanizers. Mutabor has been married since he was 19 years old. At 18, Dan also went to the registry office, had a luxurious wedding at the Prague restaurant, and got divorced a month later. Then I met Roxana ( DJ Roks ). Six years ago she gave birth to his daughter. Last September we had a beautiful wedding on the islands. Dolphin has also been with his wife for a long time. They are with photographer Lika Guliver (Anzhelika Sasin) and their daughter Eva is 23 years old. She graduated with honors from the Faculty of Global Processes of Moscow State University. Dreams of opening a restaurant. 15-year-old son Miron plays the piano masterfully.
Mutabor (Pavel GALKIN): When my children began to grow up, I clearly understood that I would not want them to listen to “Bachelor Party”. And I, as a father, often thought: will they really be the same monsters as I was in my time?
Pasha Galkin Jr. will soon be 30. He lives in Japan and plays bass guitar in a rock band. Last year he married his long-time girlfriend Meguri Arakkaki . Soon he will make his dad-DJ a grandfather. Although 49-year-old Mutabor does not consider himself an old man and, as in his youth, at night he dashes kilometers on bikes he assembled with his own hands.
— Dan and I continue to make music. We make nostalgic sets. We don’t compete with anyone and don’t rush to the big stage,” says Mutabor. - Now times have changed dramatically. If earlier there was immediate indignation for some “pussy” in our text: “A-a-a-a! They said "pussy"! They have boobs there!” And now there is “heroin-cocaine” everywhere, “kill dad, eat mom”... We danced our 15 minutes of fame.
"Bachelor Party" now
However, the breakup of the group was not the final point for the musicians. In 2021, “Bachelor Party” continues to delight the audience with the performance of already familiar songs. Artists announce their own performances on the group’s official Instagram account and Facebook page. Now “Bachelor Party” performs mainly in nightclubs or at specialized parties.
Duet "Bachelor Party" in 2021
The musicians answer questions from fans about the timing of the release of the new album evasively and intrigue fans with pictures from the recording studio.
In addition to joint creative work, Dan, who is passionate about club music, often performs in front of the public as a DJ. And Mutabor devotes his free time to promoting a project called “ElectroShield”.
