| "The Star Called Sun" | ||||
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| Song by Kino from the album Zvezda po imeni Solntse | ||||
| Released | 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1988 | |||
| Genre | Russian rock | |||
| Language | Russian | |||
| Writer | Viktor Tsoi | |||
| Composer | Viktor Tsoi | |||
| Zvezda po imeni Solntse track listing | ||||
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«The Star Called Sun» (Russian: Звезда по имени Солнце, tr. Zvezda po imeni Solntse) — is a song by the Soviet rock band «Kino» from the same album released in 1988.
| He doesn’t remember the words "yes" or "no",
He doesn’t remember any ranks or names. And he can reach for the stars, Not considering that it's a dream, And he falls, burned with the star By the name of Sun... |
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— "The Star Called Sun" - Kino |
Viktor Tsoi wrote the lyrics and music. He also sang the songs in the album. The duration of the songs on the album 3:45. In playlist of album, this song is second.
The authors of the songs were:
The song was included in the album "The history of this world". The song is used in the movie "Igla", directed by Rashid Nugmanov and was written by Viktor Tsoi during the filming:
The song was written on my guitar in my apartment Alma-Ata.
The song is very popular (one of the most popular songs of "Kino"), many budding guitarists learn it, not less interest to her show professionals, created a lot of cover versions. Song is daily heard on the air of radio stations [2].
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The group Brazzaville has recorded cover version an English of "The Star Called Sun" called «Star Called Sun» for the album East L.A. Breeze (2006). Text of song in English depart from the original: it is about the death of the mother of singer David Brown.
| Near a star, called sun,
It was there that my mom came undone Sounds of a summer parade 90.5 in the shade |
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— «Star Called Sun», Brazzaville |
Song was execution in Udmurt language folklore collective "Buranovskie babushki" (Udmurt: Брангуртысь песянайёс, Russian: Бурановские бабушки) [3] Translation of song to Udmurt language did Praskovia Fyodorova [4].
Vyacheslav Butusov recorded the song for the tribute album of band «Kino», «KINOproby» (Russian: КИНОпробы). The album was released in 2000. Cover version is in the second part of сompilation. Then Butusov with "U-Piter" band execute this song on concerts [5]. It's part of a concert programm of «Imya zvyozd» [6].
Cover versions to «The Star Called Sun» did «Inspector», «Mara», «Natali», «Rybin-band».
Vladimir Vasilev has a quite interesting cover version. Writer-fantastic in his book «Face of black Palmira» write fourth couplet of song:
| And the city light a fire,
Fire is our eyes, City know us in clear days, City remember us even in tears. And for these two thousand years, He used to fire of our eyes, He doesn't divide into their own and strange, For him we only to moment Linger under light of star Called Sun... |
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— «Face of black Palmira», Vladimir Vasilev |
— Where did from the 4th couplet of «The Star Called Sun»? — I wrote it. Ten years ago. (Vladimir Vasiliev @ Sep 25 2003) — Question-answer forum with the official site of Vasiliev.
The song is heard in the films:
Taking it the twelfth largest, song was part of «top 100 songs of the XX century» of «Nashe Radio».
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