Yuri Borzov, the first drummer, co-founder and writer of the band Time Machine, has passed away. reported Telegram channel was hit. The musician was found without signs of life in his apartment on Tokmakov Lane in the Basmanny district of Moscow on the morning of February 8. The artist was 70 years old.
According to the channel, Borzov was lying on the ground in his dressing gown, his body showing no signs of violent death. Izvestia source statedHe said that Borzov hit his head and fell ill. After a while, the musician’s relatives noticed that his condition was getting worse and called an ambulance.
According to preliminary data, Borzov suffered a heart attack. The exact cause of death will be determined after the examination.
Borzov’s death confirmed to the agency RIA News The leader of the Time Machine team is Andrei Makarevich (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent). According to him, Borzov was suffering from cancer. Shot Citing a source close to the musician, he reported that he has been battling cancer for nearly six years.
in conversation with Shot Makarevich said he would not fly to say goodbye to his bandmate. He cited the high workload as the reason. He is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on February 9 – the musician has been living in Israel in recent years.
“Yuri Ivanovich Borzov left us for a better world. Fifty-six years ago when I was in the ninth grade, he and I invented the “Time Machine” and he became our first drummer. Yura was a very nice person in every respect. And whatever he did – he drew, built, told stories – he did it extraordinarily beautifully,” Makarevich wrote on his page on the social network Facebook (the owner of the company Meta is known as an extremist in Russia and is banned).
Yuri Borzov was born on June 15, 1953 in Leningrad. Borzov met Makarevich while studying at school in Moscow. He began his creative activities as the drummer of the band The Kids. This was the name of the future group “Time Machine”. In addition to Borzov, the team also included Andrei Makarevich, Igor Mazaev, Alexander Ivanov, Pavel Ruben and Sergei Kawagoe. All of them studied at Moscow schools No. 19 and 20.
In 1969, Borzov suggested Makarevich to change the name of the group to Time Machines or “Time Machines”. The group bore this name until 1973. Later the name was made singular – “Time Machine”.
Borzov participated in the recording of the group’s first album called Time Machines. In 1972 he left the team and joined Alexei Romanov’s group “Guys who started playing when a striped hippo crossed the Zambezi River”; A year later the group disbanded.
In addition to music, he also dealt with graphics and architecture and painted. He received an award in the International Bridge of the Future Image competition held in Japan in 1988. In 2018, she organized a painting exhibition titled “Letters from Unknown Ladies”. He participated in search activities since 1985 and took part in the reburial of World War II soldiers.
The most famous songs of “The Time Machine” include “Talking on the Train”, “Candle”, “Blue Bird”, “Puppets”, “At the Good Hour”, “Laughing Through Life”, “You or Me”. , “For those at sea”, “One day the world will collapse beneath us”, “Where there is light”, “Stars don’t take the subway”, “Return”. In total, the team released 13 albums, the last of which fans heard in 2016.