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2[[caption-width-right:220:Высоцкий, Владимир Семёнович. Если друг оказался вдруг....]]
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4Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (Russian: Влади́мир Семёнович Высо́цкий, 25 January 1938 – 25 July 1980) was a Soviet Russian singer, poet, and actor, or "bard". He is often considered the greatest of the Soviet bards.
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6He 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.
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8He has been compared to Creator/AlexanderPushkin, Music/BobDylan, Music/JacquesBrel and Music/GeorgesBrassens.
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10!!Discography:
11* Алиса в стране чудес / Alice in Wonderland (1977) [2 vinyls] -- Musical play, an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, with Klara Rumyanova, Vladimir Vysotsky, Vsevolod Abdulov. Lyrics and music: Vladimir Vysotsky
12* Le Monument (1995) [CD]
13* Le Vol Arrêté (2000) [CD]
14* Wir drehen die Erde (1993) [CD]
15* Lieder vom Krieg (1995) [CD]
16* Песни/Songs (1980) [LP] Melodiya. Collection of songs published shortly after his death.
17* Sons Are Leaving For Battle (1987) [double LP] Melodiya. War songs. Archive recordings from between 1960-1980.
18* На концертах Владимира Высоцкого / At Vladimir Vysotsky's concerts.
19* Marina Vlady / Vladimir Vysotsky (1996) [CD] [Melodiya]
20* [=MP3=] Kollektsiya: Vladimir Vysotsky [SoLyd Records]
21* Platinovaya Kollektsiya: Vladimir Vysotsky (2003) [2 [=CDs=]]
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23!!Roles:
24* ''TheLivingAndTheDead'' (1963)
25* ''{{Vertical}}'' (1967)
26* ''TwoComradesWereServing'' (1968)
27* ''Film/TheIntervention1968'' (1969)
28* ''A Bad Good Man'' (a.k.a. ''The Duel'') (1973)
29* ''How Tzar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor'' (1978)
30* ''Series/TheMeetingPlaceCannotBeChanged'' (1979)
31* ''LittleTragedies'' (1979)
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34!His works features examples of:
35* AcePilot
36* AnimateInanimateObject: Vysotsky has songs from the point of view of a [[http://www.wysotsky.com/1033.htm?543 wrecked ship]], a [[http://www.wysotsky.com/1033.htm?528 fighter plane]], a statue, a [[http://www.wysotsky.com/1033.htm?507 singer's microphone]]...
37* BadassCrew: "[[http://www.wysotsky.com/1033.htm?545 Black Jackets]]" and "Horizont Shines as Daggers Blade..."
38* BadassCreed: "Black Gold" and "Penal Battalions."
39%%* BalladOfX
40* BSODSong: "Only Neither, Only Nor"
41* ButtMonkey: Main characters in "The con Vasiliev and Petrov the con".
42* CardCarryingVillain: "Space Scum March"
43%%* DareToBeBadass
44* DeathMountain: Invoked in several of his songs. The mountaineering was a recurring topic for him.
45%%* TheEveryman
46* GriefSong: [[http://www.wysotsky.com/1033.htm?567 He didn’t come back from the battle]]
47%%* TheGulag
48* HowMuchMoreCanHeTake: [[http://www.kulichki.com/vv/eng/songs/elnitskij.html#the_sentimental_boxers_songThe Sentimental Boxer's Song]]
49* MoralityBallad: too many to list
50* MurderBallad: "Private Borisov", "Spades not Hearts".
51* ThePowerOfHate: "Ballad of Hate"
52* RippedFromTheHeadlines: "Mao Zedong" and other songs denouncing Communist China
53* SuicideByCop: "Ballad of Triangle Envelope."
54* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: "Agent 007" song is ''very'' loosely based on Creator/SeanConnery's visit to Soviet Union in 1969.
55* VillainSong: "Army Group Centre", written from the POV of soldiers from Nazi Germany.

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