Yuri Aizenshpis biography and his lovers. Yuri Aizenshpis - the brightest and most controversial personality in the world of show business

Yuri Aizenshpis is called one of the first producers in Russia. It was he who opened the Kino group to the general public, brought to big stage Dima Bilan. Aizenshpis died 8 years ago, but there are still a lot of rumors around his name.

Withdrawn a fabulous amount

Aizenshpis's sister, Faina Shmilievna, still remembers her brother almost every day. Although in childhood, according to a relative, they did not have to communicate so often. After all, Aizenshpis spent all his youth in prison.

“We had a completely different childhood,” Faina recalls. While I was growing up, he was in prison. My parents were very worried, but I probably didn’t realize everything.

Yuri Shmilevich got to places not so remote for currency fraud and speculation on an especially large scale. IN Soviet time it was a serious article. Relatives still remember: the first time he was detained right at the entrance on Christmas Day - January 7, 1970. He profitably sold gold, returned home. A fabulous sum of sixteen thousand rubles and seven thousand dollars, as well as imported equipment, were confiscated from him. Aizenshpis was sentenced to ten years in prison. He was released early after serving seven years. However, less than a month later he was again put on trial for speculation - and received eight years.

According to Faina Shmilievna, the relatives could not even imagine that after this Yuri would become a famous producer. Although organizational skills manifested themselves in his youth. From the age of 20, he worked as an administrator with the Sokol rock group.

The departure of Stashevsky was a blow

Freed, Yuri Shmilevich began to engage in show business. At first he helped the Kino group and Viktor Tsoi, then he found Vlad Stashevsky. In a matter of months, he made a real idol out of an unknown boy, whom the whole country lusted after.

“My brother never shared his difficulties, although, of course, there were plenty of them in his work,” says Faina Aizenshpis. - But this topic was closed, he always answered our questions: “It’s better not to talk about this.” Yura was demanding and tough in his work, but at the same time a very fair person. With us, he was completely different: calm, reasonable - we had ordinary family relationships.

Joseph Prigogine once admitted: Aizenshpis had no luck with the artists. Having achieved glory, they betrayed him. At first glance, they parted with Stashevsky quietly and calmly. Vlad decided that he could work on his own. Yuri Shmilevich released the singer, but deep down he was very worried. The departure of Vlad, in which he put his whole soul, was a real blow. Unfortunately, far from the first - many whom Aizenshpis brought to people betrayed him, left him with nothing.

- Once my brother told me that from somewhere he came to no one famous boy, he fiddled with it, - continues the sister of the producer. - It was Dima Bilan. It was Yura who helped him to rise, his ascent happened before our eyes.

Until the last heard his heartbeat

There are still a lot of rumors around the death of Aizenshpis. By official version, he died of a heart attack, but in show business they believe that this is not so.

- I had a heart attack, - Faina Shmilievna sighs. - She herself was under the door in intensive care, where he was taken. We spent the whole day there, I still remember everything in the smallest detail. We heard a heartbeat - everything is working loudly in intensive care!

Those close to the producer do not hide: Aizenshpis never really thought about his health. Much more important to him were his wards. For example, before his death, he was very worried about whether he would take well-deserved awards at one of the prestigious music awards Bilan. Dima took the awards and dedicated them to his first producer, who lived only 60 years.

“I think that the prison has done its job,” says Faina Aizenshpis. So many years of life are actually lost. Every day is a struggle for existence, health is ruined. Everyone told him that he needed to rest, work less. But he did not listen to anyone, for him it was a normal existence. Therefore, if the brother were alive, he would not change anything.

Yuri Shmilevich (Viktor Shmulevich) remained in last years loner Robinson on the once fertile land of domestic show business scorched by the majors. He was with no one - a rare quality. Divided between Channel One (and affiliated structures) and the clan of Igor Krutoy, the world of show business idolized this man.

He supported good relations with Konstantin Ernst, and his artists - Dima Bilan and "Dynamite" - were practically the only non-Ernst artists in the commercial projects of Channel One. Starting with the late night TV show "Golden Gramophone" and ending with the pop collections of Real Records.

At the same time, Yuri Shmilevich managed to maintain pleasant commercial relations with Muz-TV and all the projects of ARS, another major show business tycoon. He had a fight with Igor Krutoy quite recently, after a strange situation with the Muz-TV award. Dima Bilan was supposed to receive this award this summer, but did not have time to come to the ceremony. Aizenshpis called Krutoy. He answered in the spirit that he would not come - he would not receive. Bilan did not come and did not receive the award. Aizenshpis turned his car halfway to the Olimpiysky, like Primakov on his famous visit to America, and was offended.

Many people know this story. But few people remember that after that quarrel, Dima Bilan's clips continued to appear on the Muz-TV channel, and not a single serious agreement between two serious partners was violated.

Yuri Aizenshpis was a businessman from God, in whom he did not believe. The Phrygian king Midas, who turns everything he takes into gold coins. It was a gift for which I had to serve in prisons, first 10 years, and then another seven. Yes, Aizenshpis tritely sold gold and currency. But he fartseval in a big way. “In 1986, during a medical examination at Butyrka, after several on-duty questions about health, the doctor suddenly asked me if I was Aizenshpis, who was involved in the Sokol group in the late 60s? And he gave me the magazine "Youth", where he was great material about me. It said that I was to the Falcon what Brian Epstein was to The Beatles", - Aizenshpis later recalled his conclusion.

The first rock band in the Soviet Union called "Sokol" was created with the help of the catchy Aizenshpis. He never became a musician himself. But forever acquired a passion for "making" stars. One can imagine how deep a passion this is for a non-musician. As in a joke: no matter how much you earn, more money You won't earn money than steal.

We get an ambiguous portrait. The rise of Aizenshpis fell on the period of the initial accumulation of capital in Russia. And Yuri Shmilevich was one of the most prominent representatives domestic capitalists new formation. Black cash registers, bags of money, gang fights. Now it seems strange that he was simply not killed in those years. His assistants were killed, his "sponsors" were killed. Yuri Shmilevich managed to negotiate with all potential "customers".

Oh, this magical concept of "agreement". Yuri Shmilevich mastered it to perfection. When Viktor Tsoi agreed to work under the direction of Aizenshpis, he came to the cult television program “Vzglyad” at that time with absolutely fantastic ratings at the present time and convinced Vladimir Mukusev to show Viktor Tsoi in the program. The next day, Tsoi woke up a superstar, and Aizenshpis a year later became a simple Soviet millionaire.

A little later, Aizenshpis borrowed 50 thousand Soviet rubles and released the Kino disc at his own expense. Along the way, sending into oblivion the state monopoly of the Melodiya company on the release of gramophone records. Thus began the market sound recording in Russia.

However, Aizenshpis's hands were not stained with blood. Even the most aggressive ill-wishers of Aizenshpis admitted that he "agreed". But he never eliminated his competitors, as happened in the shooting story of the leadership of the ZeKo Records record label, when one co-owner “ordered” another.

After the death of Viktor Tsoi, who literally carried golden testicles for a producer who had just served time, Aizenshpis finally broke with rock music. Never-before-seen casinos, nightclubs and private TV channels were opened in the country. Yuri Shmilevich went headlong in combination with domestic pop music.

First, he made imitators of the new wave style and specifically the English Depeche into stars. Mode group"Technology". Those turned out to be completely stupid students and sunk into oblivion immediately after the break with Aizenshpis. A few more experiments with the "Moral Code" and "Young Guns", and the producer believed in his own strength as a creator. He took a guy with no special abilities and made him a star on a dare. The guy's name was Vlad Stashevsky.

Along the way, Yuri Aizenshpis received the title of “best producer”, led a dozen one-day groups and festivals, got involved in homosexual scandals that were whispered all over Moscow by word of mouth, spent money on a Novo-Russian scale and made a lot of new money. He founded a couple of record companies that existed before the first tax audit or before the quarrel of the founders-investors. Life drove Yuri Shmilevich forward.

Dima Bilan and the Dynamite group became a breath of life-giving air for Aizenshpis. The first boy band in the country and the first truly talented artist for Aizenshpis, they became a reliable support for the aging producer. These artists didn't want to leave, these artists wanted to work. Spitz, as his close friends called him, could make plans for several years ahead. This was an unprecedented foundation for the sick heart of Yuri Shmilyevich.

The notorious media wars and the harsh pressure of the majors eliminated any significant figures outside the position in the corresponding department of the corporation or the floor of Ostankino from the field of Russian show business. Yuri Aizenshpis was the only warrior who was allowed to remain on the battlefield of the giants. Is it a conceivable thing - the artists of StarPro, created by him, performed on a talk show of opposing TV channels on the same day. When things are tied to very big money, such fantastic phenomena cannot be explained by ordinary respect for gray hair. But Aizenshpis knew how to negotiate.

In one of recent interviews Yuri Shmilyevich has an important remark of our hero, which explains a lot in his character. “It may be naive, but I value friendship above all else. I am ready to give a lot for friendship, ”the show business shark admits. In our country, desperately saturated with Asianism, the ability to make friends keeps business. And saves life.

Except for the very last judge. Cover the mirrors with cloth. About the deceased - only good things. And forget everything you read here.

This person is called the first music producer USSR and Russia. It was he who, on the wave of Perestroika, introduced the audience to the first cult rock group "Kino", and then, again, he was the first to deprive the state of a monopoly on the publication of records and music albums.
Note that his talent as a businessman and organizer manifested itself much earlier, only then such activities of his fell under criminal articles. So in total, the future famous producer Yuri Aizenshpis spent almost 17 years behind bars.

Concert director

In 1961, Yuri Aizenshpis, like many young people, was fond of sports and music. His parents, who spent their whole lives roaming the Moscow barracks, finally got an apartment on Sokol. In this metropolitan area, the future producer met the participants of his first musical group. Young guys called their team - "Falcon". In a roundabout way, they got records with records of "imported stars" - Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, the Beatles, taught their compositions, and then performed them themselves.

At first, "Sokol" performed only in the nearest cafe, occasionally in the area of ​​​​the House of Culture and on dance floors. But 20-year-old Yuri Aizenshpis, who decided to become the director of the group, already understood then that you can earn big money only if you legalize.

"Golden" farce

Violation of the rules on foreign exchange transactions was on a different occasion. Having entered the institute, Yuri Aizenshpis, driven by his commercial inclinations, decided to turn to his other youthful passion - to sports. Among his friends there were guys who now played football in the Dynamo team, traveled abroad for friendly matches and received checks that could be sold in the USSR in the only Beryozka currency store.
In those days, a dollar on the black market, that is, from hands, cost from 2 to 7.5 rubles. Yuri Aizenshpis, first through his “old friends”, and then through his own well-established channels, bought checks, sold them at Beryozka, and then sold the acquired scarce goods at three dearly.

With the proceeds, through the administrators and waiters of hotels, he bought foreign currency from foreigners, and then checks again. For example, an imported fur coat could be purchased at Beryozka for $50, and sold to a metropolitan movie star for 500 rubles, a dozen Panasonic radios for $35, and sold in Odessa to the same huckster for 4,000 rubles. But this was not enough.

In the late 1960s, Vneshtorgbank began selling gold in Moscow for hard currency. On this wave, Yuri Aizenshpis took up gold fartsovka. Many nomenklatura workers, especially from the Transcaucasian republics, had big and very big money, but it was not easy for them to shine with currency and generally flicker with so much cash in the capital. And Aizenshpis bought gold bars for dollars at the branch of Vneshtorgbank and sold them to Caucasian party workers (officially, 1 kilogram of gold cost $ 1,500).

If he bought dollars on the side at 5 rubles, then a kilogram of gold came out of him at 7,500 rubles. Another thousand had to be paid to a foreign student who had the right to legally conduct transactions with currency, because an ordinary citizen of the USSR should not have had it. But Aizenshpis sold 1 kilogram of gold to a republican party leader for 20,000 rubles.

Navar was mind-blowing, and it really drove many black marketers crazy. Once, a burned-out gold businessman from Armenia, in order to make it easier to take into account, handed over several of his “colleagues” to the employees of the authorities. Then, in the stagnant year of 1970, many criminals who were held under "economic" articles "for the first time" received 5-8 years in prison, but Yuri Aizenshpis was sentenced to 10 years of strict regime, and besides, with the confiscation of all property, even the parent's apartment .

From scratch

After 7 years, the former concert director was released on parole. Not a trace was left of the old connections, I had to " commercial activity» start over. Together with a certain friend, Yuri Aizenshpis decided to buy 4,000 dollars "from hand" on the Lenin Hills. But the seller brought fakes and the criminal investigation officers had been watching him for a long time. So after 3 months of freedom, the future famous producer was again in the dock. As a result, to 8 years of imprisonment under the “currency article”, he was added another 3 years, which were previously “cut off” for the first term and sent to serve in Mordovia, in the infamous Dubrovlag colony, which had the unofficial name “Meat Grinder”, because each day there for "unknown reasons" killed 3 - 5 people.

Seven years later, he was released on parole. There was no trace of the old connections, so we had to re-organize the "commercial activity". Together with one friend, Yuri Aizenshpis bought $ 4,000 from the Lenin Hills. That's just the seller has long been under the supervision of the criminal investigation department and brought fakes. So after three months of freedom, the future famous producer was again in the dock. As a result, to 8 years of imprisonment under the “currency article”, he was added another 3 years, which were previously knocked off (when he was serving his first term), and sent to Mordovia to the infamous Dubrovlag colony, which had the unofficial name “Meat Grinder”, because every day 3-5 people died there for "unknown reasons".

Under the hood of the KGB

In 1985, Yuri Aizenshpis was again released on parole and returned to Moscow. Now he was being extremely careful. Through a young Muscovite, the wife of an employee of the Arab diplomatic mission, Aizenshpis not only established a safe channel for buying foreign currency, but also imported clothing and electronics, since the Arab was engaged in export-import. But the KGB officers always looked after any foreigner in the USSR, and soon Yuri Aizenshpis was under the hood.

In the summer of 1986, when he was driving around the capital in new Zhiguli, he was stopped by policemen. During the inspection of the car, it turned out that there were several imported audio tape recorders and one super scarce video tape recorder with video cassettes in the trunk. So, at the suggestion of the KGB officers, Yuri Aizenshpis ended up in a pre-trial detention center. However, the case did not reach the court, since the Arab managed to leave the USSR in time, and without the main defendant, the “high-profile” speculative case soon fell apart. And then Perestroika broke out. After serving almost 1.5 years in a pre-trial detention center, Yuri Aizenshpis was released and never returned to jail.

Producer Yuri Aizenshpis was one of the first in our country to start professionally "promoting" pop and pop stars. There were legends about this man, and his every step was shrouded in the most incredible rumors. But in spite of everything, all the projects that Yuri Aizenshpis undertook turned out to be successful.

Contrary to the general trend, the performers who left him never slandered him in the press and never entered into litigation.

Yuri Aizenshpis: biography. Childhood and youth

Aizenshpis was born in Chelyabinsk in 1945. His mother, Maria Mikhailovna Aizenshpis, a native Muscovite, was sent to this city for evacuation. Shmil Moiseevich Aizenshpis (father of Yuri) is a Polish Jew who was forced to leave his homeland to escape the Nazis. He fought in the ranks Soviet army and was a WWII veteran.

After the end of the war, the family returned to Moscow. Until 1961, she lived in a dilapidated wooden hut, and then received a wonderful apartment in a prestigious area of ​​the capital. At that time they had a gramophone with a large collection of records and a KVN-49 TV.

As Yuri Shmilevich Aizenshpis himself recalled, in his youth he was seriously involved in sports: handball, athletics, volleyball, but due to a leg injury he had to stop training. In addition to sports, the young man in those days was interested in jazz. He had a tape recorder, which the young man bought with his savings.

The first records were jazz compositions famous musicians world - Woody Herman, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald. Yuri Aizenshpis, whose photo you can see in our article, was well versed in various directions- jazz-rock, avant-garde and popular jazz. After some time, he became interested in the origins of rock music, the founders of the direction of rhythm and blues.

The circle of lovers and connoisseurs of this music was quite small in those days, everyone knew each other. When one of the like-minded people got a new record, Yuri Aizenshpis rewrote it. At that time, “black markets” were widespread in our country, which the police constantly dispersed. Exchange, purchase and sale were prohibited. The sellers simply confiscated the discs. And in spite of everything, records entered the country from abroad on a regular basis, overcoming the powerful barriers of customs rules and laws. Under the ban were some performers - Elvis Presley, the sisters of Bury.

Education

After graduating from school, Yury Shmilevich Aizenshpis entered MESI and graduated in 1968 with a diploma in engineering and economics. But it should be noted that he entered the institute and successfully graduated only in order not to upset his parents.

First musical project

Yes, a graduate of the Faculty of Economics, Yuri Aizenshpis, did not like his specialty at all. His soul was drawn to music. While still studying at the institute, twenty-year-old Yuri began his creative activity showing courage and business acumen.

In the mid-seventies, Beatlemania swept the world. At this time, Yuri with a group of like-minded musicians created the first rock band in our country. Since all members of the group lived near the Sokol metro station, they didn’t get too smart with the name of the group and they also called it Sokol. Today this group has taken its rightful place in the history of the Russian rock movement.

At first, the musicians performed the songs of the legendary band "The Beatles" on English language. At that time, it was believed that rock music could only exist in English. Friends have long noted the activity of Yuri and his organizational talent, so they appointed him as someone like an impresario.

Some time later, the team was admitted to the staff of the Tula Philharmonic. The group toured a lot, and Aizenshpis' monthly income sometimes reached an astronomical amount of 1,500 rubles at that time. For comparison: the salary of ministers Soviet Union amounted to no more than a thousand rubles.

Ticket selling

At the very beginning of his activity, more precisely during his collaboration with the Sokol group, Yuri developed unusual scheme ticket sales. Having previously agreed with the director of some house of culture or club, Aizenshpis bought all the tickets for the last screening of the film, and then sold them at a higher price to the group's concert.

As a rule, there were much more people who wanted to listen to music than there were seats in the hall. At times things got out of control. It is for this reason that Aizenshpis was the first to hire security guards in the seventies to ensure order at concerts.

With the money received from the sale of tickets, he bought foreign currency, with which he purchased high-quality musical instruments and high quality sound equipment for the stage. Since in the USSR at that time all foreign exchange transactions were illegal, he always took a big risk when making transactions.

Work in the Central Statistical Bureau of the USSR

In 1968, Aizenshpis joined the Central Statistical Office as a junior researcher with a salary of 115 rubles. However, he rarely visited his workplace. His main income continued to be foreign exchange transactions, buying up and further selling gold. He made transactions, the volume of which exceeded a million dollars a month. At that time, the underground millionaire was only 25 years old.

Arrest

But such a life did not last long. In early January 1970, Aizenshpis was arrested. During a search in his apartment, 7,675 dollars and 15,585 rubles were found. He was convicted under Article 88 ("Currency transactions"). Even in places of detention, the entrepreneurial vein of Aizenshpis was manifested. In the Krasnoyarsk-27 zone, the future producer launched a brisk trade in tea, vodka and sugar. Then he began to be appointed to senior positions at local construction sites.

When he was transferred to a colony-settlement, Yuri fled from there to Pechory and settled with a local intellectual, whom he charmed with his charm and talk about the capital. However, he was soon exposed by a guest at home - a police colonel. And again, the amazing luck of Aizenshpis, as well as his knowledge of the basics of psychology, came to the rescue. He was transferred to another colony on perfect place rater.

Yuri Aizenshpis spent almost 18 years in prison for what any citizen is now allowed to do. But something else is important: for such a long period of time, Aizenshpis did not become embittered, did not become a criminal, did not lose his human appearance.

Life after release

Once free in 1988, Aizenshpis saw Russia unfamiliar to him during perestroika. Alexander Lipnitsky introduced him to the rock scene. At first, he was entrusted to head the directorate of the Intershans festival. Gradually, step by step, he studied the backstage life and the basics of show business, and soon the aspiring producer began working with domestic musical performers.

Yuri Shmilevich formulated his mission quite frankly - to promote the artist using any means: diplomacy, bribery, threats or blackmail. This is exactly how he acted, for which he was called the "shark of show business."

There were plenty of unknown young performers who dreamed of breaking into the big stage. Yuri Aizenshpis chose among them those who could hook the viewer, who had at least a more or less interesting repertoire. At first, through television, he presented them to the general public, and then organized tours.

Group "Kino"

From December 1989 to tragic death Viktor Tsoi (1990) Aizenshpis was the producer and director of the Kino group. He was the first to break the state monopoly on the release of records. Already in 1990, he released the "Black Album" with funds taken on credit.

It should be noted: by the beginning of cooperation with the producer of "Kino" there was already enough famous group. At that time, the most successful, legendary album "Blood Type" had already been recorded. According to critics, after him Choi could not write a single line for two or three years. Therefore, cooperation with Kino brought Aizenshpis to a new stellar level of activity, which allowed him to earn credibility in his craft.

"Technology"

If "Kino" at the beginning of work with the producer already had some success, then the "Technology" group was molded almost from scratch by Yuri Aizenshpis. "Lighting the Stars" - this is how the producer began to be called more and more often after his second successful project. Using the example of "Technology", he managed to prove that he can take guys with an average level of talent and "sculpt" stars out of them.

Among the numerous ensembles that existed at that time on the stage was the Bioconstructor group, which eventually split into two subgroups. One was called "Bio", and the second was just thinking about its name and musical concept. They could show only two or three songs, which they already liked famous producer. As time has shown, Aizenshpis was not mistaken and was able to create really popular group called "Technology".

Linda

In 1993, Aizenshpis drew attention to the young performer Svetlana Geiman in Jurmala. Very soon, the name of the singer Linda became known to both the audience and music critics. Soon the songs I want your sex, "Non-stop" and the famous hit "Playing with Fire" appeared. Joint creativity Linda and the producer lasted less than a year, after which they parted ways.

Vlad Stashevsky

This project was more long-term - it lasted six years (1993-1999). The favorite of the beautiful half of Russian viewers, the sex symbol of the mid-nineties was Vlad Stashevsky, who, in collaboration with Aizenshpis, released five albums.

The producer met Stashevsky at the Master nightclub. Yuri Shmilyevich heard Vlad playing an out-of-tune piano backstage and humming songs from the repertoire of Mikhail Shufutinsky and Willy Tokarev. After this meeting, nothing foreshadowed a long cooperation, although Aizenshpis left his business card to an unknown artist.

A few days later he called Vlad and they arranged a meeting, during which Aizenshpis introduced Vlad to Vladimir Matetsky, who took part in the audition. The first performance of Stashevsky took place at the end of August 1993 in Adjara, at a song festival.

Awards, further creative activity

In 1992, Aizenshpis was awarded the Ovation Award as the best producer in Russia. Until 1993, Yuri Shmilevich produced the Young Guns, Moral Code, singer Linda groups. In 1997, he began to study the singers Inga Drozdova and Katya Lel, a year later the singer Nikita became his protege, and since 2000, cooperation with the Dynamite group began.

During this period, Yuri Aizenshpis became especially famous as a very successful producer. The man who lit the stars on Russian stage, since 2001, he took over as CEO of Media Star.

Dima Bilan

Yuri Aizenshpis and Dima Bilan met in 2003. According to music critics, latest project famous producer, which he was engaged in the last three years of his life, became one of the most successful in the work of Yuri Shmilyevich. In September 2005, Dima Bilan was recognized best performer 2004 according to MTV, and much later became the winner of Eurovision 2008.

Other roles

In 2005, Yuri Shmilevich played an episodic role in the popular Russian film " The night Watch". In addition, he became the author of the book Lighting the Stars.

Family life

Aizenshpis did not like to talk about his personal life. At the Intershans-89 festival, he met a very pretty assistant director Elena. The couple did not formalize the relationship. In 1993, a baby appeared in the family - the son of Misha. But gradually the feelings lost their former sharpness, and the couple broke up.

Yuri Shmilevich spoiled his son Aizenshpis, however, the educational process was completely shifted to Elena's shoulders. Mikhail often visited his father's office, went to concerts with him. Yuri Shmilevich bequeathed to his son and ex-wife two huge apartments in Moscow. After the death of the producer, Elena married the editor of the TNT channel, Leonid Gyune.

Yuri Aizenshpis: cause of death

On September 20, 2005, this was gone talented person, a recognized and successful Russian producer. At about eight o'clock in the evening, Yuri Aizenshpis died in the Moscow City Hospital No. 20. Death was due to a massive myocardial infarction. Yuri Shmilevich was buried at the Domodedovo cemetery near Moscow.

On September 20, Yuri Shmilevich Aizenshpis (1945-2005), one of the few real producers in this country, died.

Aizenshpis got into show business in his youth, but much of what he did then was on the verge of legality (). As a result, the guy went to prison university and was able to fully return to work only by the age of 45.

Aizenshpis' first project was Viktor Tsoi, whose cooperation was interrupted by a tragic accident.

Artists left him with scandals, he threw them himself, sometimes there was not enough money for further promotion.

Let's talk today about the "thwarted" projects of the producer, who is considered super-successful.

TECHNOLOGY GROUP (1991-1992)

Collaboration: The members of the group agree that Aizenshpis took them, like Tsoi, "ready". There was no need to do anything - "Technology" had already successfully performed "Strange Dances" and "Press the Button", which became calling card Guys.

Aizenshpis just shot them a video for "Strange Dances" and charged the airwaves. In addition, he persuaded the participants to mow outwardly to Depeche Mode. Well, I also brought lighting equipment from abroad.

But to shoot clips and charge the broadcasts cost money, which the participants of the "Technology" did not seem to understand. The editors on television demanded money for every sneeze, making Aizenshpis nostalgic for the days when Tsoi's appearance in the Vzglyad program cost nothing.

Reasons for the gap: The "Technology" was ruined by the crowd. Incomes were divided at the rate of 60% to Aizenshpis, 40% to the group. In principle, in a divine way, but these 40% had to be pulled for four and the amount was not impressive. Why Technologiya accused Aizenshpis of this is not entirely clear. Let's assume - trouble with arithmetic.

Wanting to wrest from Aizenshpis not only freedom, but also money, Technology turned to crime for help.

Aizenshpis said:

“A letter on 15 pages with a red ballpoint pen with a bunch of accusations was received not only by me, but also by some criminal elements who undertook to judge us. I just couldn't dismiss these people and agreed to meet. The shooter took place in one of the rented apartments near Sokol. In addition to me, who came in splendid isolation, and the brawlers from the group, there were several more very authoritative people in criminal circles. Kind of like a protégé of musicians. And with someone I even somehow sat together ...

Debriefing has begun. Having calmly listened to a whole stream of accusations, I answered each of the points with such skill and reason that I didn’t even leave a stone unturned. The criminal element recognized my innocence and did not take the side of the musicians. All that I lost as a result of this meeting was a mountain of promotional material for the group, all sorts of stupid posters and calendars with their arrogant faces "

"YANG GUNS" (1992)

Collaboration: Not realizing that the time for pop music was coming, Aizenshpis took another rock band under his wing, but quickly changed his mind. He did not have time to invest steep finances in this project, for which he repeatedly thanked the Lord.

Reasons for the breakup: The initiator of the breakup was Aizenshpis, he got too wild musicians. The guys all the time shared leadership in the team, starting fights right at the concerts, spoiling the equipment, conflicting with the police. And it was not yet glory, and even its breath would blow the roof off without a return. Realizing this, Aizenshpis broke the contract.

LINDA (1992-1993)

Collaboration: Linda Aizenshpis was interested in dad, banker Alexander Geiman, or rather, his money. First of all, Aizenshpis destroyed Linda's duet with her girlfriend, convincing him that it was easier to push through a solo project. Then he faced shyness future star. Aizenshpis gave her a description:

Linda wore long hair and could not speak coherently: an ordinary provincial Jewish girl whose dad has risen a lot. No talent at all, just a girl who wanted to sing. And in the school, of course, having felt the taste of profit, they began to write it down as super talents. They just bred the parent for clearly selfish purposes so that he would hire expensive teachers.

Reasons for the gap: Naturally, the producer's criticism strained the banker, and Aizenshpis did not know how to mold something acceptable from the artist. And then Max Fadeev appeared on the horizon.

The success of the first albums could not be repeated, although in 2004 Linda had another powerful promotion with producer Prigogine at the head.

VLAD STASHEVSKY (1993-1999)

Collaboration: The first project of Aizenshpis, molded by him from start to finish and having a great success. Taking a handsome, well-mannered guy, Aizenshpis ordered music and text for him. Vlad shot very powerfully, at a certain moment all the broadcasts were his.

The project lasted a long time, since Stashevsky understood what he owed to the producer and did not have grandiose creative claims. Everything was going great until Vlad married the daughter of the owner of Luzhniki, Olga Aleshina.

Reasons for the gap: Alyosha began to blow Stashevsky in the ear that it was better to work without Aizenshpis, she would be the producer and all the money would go to the family.

Aizenshpis tried to stay cheerful:

“My “divorce” with Vlad is the first major one in our show business, which was tactful and peaceful. Without mutual claims, name-calling and boycotts. First time two famous person, producer and artist, have publicly announced that they will cease their collaboration from now on. We did it in the Intermedia office, where we signed a statement for the mass media about the end of the five-year contract and about satisfaction with the results. joint activities. As confirmation of this amazing fact I gave such indisputable evidence of the success of the project as the release of five albums, one hundred songs, seventeen clips and five diplomas of “Songs of the Year” in five years.

It's good that Vlad managed to return to normal life without any pushes "a la Zhenya Osin".

SASHA (1999-2000)

Collaboration: From a really bright singer, Aizenshpis tried to mold the Russian Madonna (meaning an earthly star, not a heavenly one). The situation was facilitated by the fact that Sasha did not come alone, but with a budget. Pretty soon, songs like "It's just rain" flooded the airwaves.

Reasons for the gap: The philanthropist, who gave money for Sasha, put her to bed, and then began to be jealous, while being married. There were constant troubles.

Aizenshpis recalled:

“On the basis of scandals, there was a constant mess with the ethers. Everything has already been paid for, suddenly at the last moment a call: “Cancel everything!”. I cancel with losses, it’s good that I saved at least some of the money. And suddenly the call came again: “Bring everything back!” And try to explain to him that this is not done!

Investor Aizenshpis fired, and Sasha tried to block the way to the stage.

NIKITA (1999-2000)

Collaboration: Like "Technology", Nikita came to Aizenshpis with ready-made material and at first did not impress. But after looking more closely, the producer decided to invest in the boy. The songs “Fly away forever”, “You descended from the sky”, the scandalous clip “Hotel”, with the strictest account, will go down in the history of the Russian music industry.

Unfortunately, Nikita thought of himself as an independent creative unit, and so it probably was, but at the same time, he clearly underestimated the contribution of Yuri Shmilyevich.

Reasons for the gap: They were voiced by Aizenshpis.

“Our relationship was constantly confronted. It would seem, well, what's the big deal, you're lucky, you work with a major producer, you get good money, an excellent prospect. But no, on all issues there is a point of view, fantastic self-confidence and peremptoryness and, as a result, constant conflicts.

After two years with a penny, Aizenshpis and Nikita broke up.

“When I started working alone, in the early days I just wanted to hang myself. When I collaborated with Aizenshpis, I did not think about anything other than performances. And now I have to solve all the issues alone - from organizing tours to choosing concert costumes ... "

Aizenshpis no longer wanted to contact Nikita. As a result, the promising singer rolled down to an artist of the level of clubs in the sleeping areas of Moscow.

The latest projects of Aizenshpis, the Dynamite group and Dima Bilan, were successful.

Although by the time Yuri Shmilyevich passed away, Dynamite was in crisis, since Leonid Nerushenko, expelled from the group, died. As for Bilan, he fell into trial with the widow of Aizenshpis, as soon as the corpse of the producer had time to cool down.

These are the results professional activity non-trivial, tough and very talented person.