History Music / VladimirVysotsky

He has been compared to Creator/AlexanderPushkin, Music/BobDylan, and Music/JacquesBrel.

* VillainSong: "Army Group Centre", written from the POV of ThoseWackyNazis

He started out acting in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and ''Life of Galileo'', but soon fell out of official favor due to the material in his songs. While the Soviet government encouraged positivism in music, Vysotsky preferred to sing about the harsh realities of life, always strumming his seven-string guitar. Several of his songs appeared in movies, and throughout the late 1960s and the 1970s he was popular underground. He died in 1980 of heart failure brought on by drug abuse, and over a million people lined the streets of Moscow at his funeral. He has been compared to Creator/AlexanderPushkin, Music/BobDylan, and Music/JacquesBrel.

Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (Russian: Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий, 25 January 1938 – 25 July 1980) was a Soviet singer, poet, and actor, or "bard" (often considered the greatest of the Soviet bards).

Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (Russian: Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий, 25 January 1938 – 25 July 1980) was a Soviet singer, poet, and actor, or "bard" (often considered the greatest of the Soviet bards). He started out acting in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' and ''Life of Galileo'', but soon fell out of official favor due to the material in his songs. While the Soviet government encouraged positivism in music, Vysotsky preferred to sing about the harsh realities of life, always strumming his seven-string guitar. Several of his songs appeared in movies, and throughout the late 1960s and the 1970s he was popular underground. He died in 1980 of heart failure brought on by drug abuse, and over a million people lined the streets of Moscow at his funeral. He has been compared to Creator/AlexanderPushkin, Music/BobDylan, and Music/JacquesBrel.

!Discography

!Roles

!Tropes
* CrapsackWorld
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: He was popular among all classes. Refined intellectuals liked him for his talent and cleverness. Working class liked him for his masculinity and brutal honesty. Career criminals liked him because he composed many criminal underworld songs (alongside more refined stuff though songs by Vysotsky were head and shoulders above that genre). He was also loved by communist and KGB apparatchiks, of course.
* ProtestSong
* RatedMForManly: Many characters in his songs, and the man himself. In the 70s, he was considered an iconic image of Russian masculinity.
* VodkaDrunkenski: Was battling with alcoholism for many years.
** and failed
** still he was killed by drugs not vodka.
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!His songs features examples of:

* BalladOfX

* DareToBeBadass

* TheEveryman

* TheGulag