New images, anniversary concerts and the delight of the audience: why 2019 was called the year of Pugacheva
'30.12.2019'
Source: Gossip
It seems that the media never wrote so often about Alla Borisovna, as in the past year. And this is not some kind of sudden awakened love of journalists for the star: just the singer regularly gave reasons for discussion - starting with the fact that this spring Pugacheva celebrated her 70th anniversary and gave two big concerts in honor of this, and then presented a film version of her show. But first things first: "Gossip" called 2019 “the year of Pugacheva” and suggests recalling what the press wrote about the Prima Donna during the year.
Secular rise
From the very beginning of the year, Pugacheva more often than before began to appear at secular parties, and the media joyfully picked up her every release as a news occasion. Journalists, as always, focused attention in the headlines on "fashionable outfits" and "slender legs" of the star, and fans on Instagram showered her with compliments.
The photos in which the singer experimented with style became especially popular with followers: for Christmas, at home, for example, she put on shorts and heels, and Svetlana Loboda came to the concert in an outfit with bare shoulders. Dark hoodies, previously loved by Pugacheva, seem to be in the past - or sent on a long vacation.
Singing in the pool and preparing for the concert
In March, Maxim Galkin gave a long interview to Dozhd. The journalists did not wait for special revelations about life with the legendary performer, but there were some interesting details. For example, Galkin said that his wife sings when she swims in the pool in their house. He also mentioned that “the whole life” of his family “is built on not disturbing” Alla during her preparation for the anniversary concert.
Maxim also revealed several unknown details. As he said, for the concert (or "musical performance", as he called it), Pugacheva is preparing a program consisting mainly of new songs, and from past hits she plans to sing "only what suits her concept."
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According to Galkin, his wife “does not treat her 70th birthday as an event of a universal scale” and does not want to be PR on this event.
“She is categorically against the TV channels to somehow celebrate it. It weighs on her, she believes that now is not the time to promote all this, to tell, to impose and so on, ”said the celebrity's husband.
Congratulations
On April 15, the main topic in social networks was the anniversary of the Diva: domestic stars of different sizes hastened to pay tribute to the birthday girl. According to media reports, Vladimir Putin was one of the first to congratulate the artist on her birthday.
Pugacheva herself in a video published by Maxim Galkin, touchingly wiped a tear when she received congratulations and gifts from children - five-year-old Lisa and Harry.
Concert in the Kremlin
On April 17, Pugacheva, who had just celebrated her 70th birthday in a narrow family circle, presented her anniversary show in the Kremlin, entitled “Postscript”. Preparation for the concert took six months. Alla Borisovna actively participated in everything related to the work on the show, tickets for which were mostly sold out two months before the X-day.
The significance of the event was emphasized by high prices: for a place on the ground we had to pay from 85 to fantastic 440 thousand rubles. Ksenia Sobchak said that she paid 11 thousand rubles for a ticket for the 250th row. Philip Kirkorov, Oleg Menshikov, Nikolai Baskov, Igor Nikolaev, Dima Bilan and many other celebrities also applauded from the best places in the Pugacheva Hall.
The whole family of the artist was also present that evening in the Kremlin Palace. At the last composition, Maxim Galkin, Lisa and Harry, as well as Kristina Orbakaite and their sons Denis and Nikita, appeared on the stage.
The anniversary concert of the Prima Donna is, of course, an outstanding event, but there were also dissatisfied ones. Judging by the comments on social networks, not everyone liked that Pugacheva sang many new and not yet known songs, and left some of her hits overboard. AB fans wrote in their reviews: the new compositions are “cool, but they will not go to the people”.
Birthday with friends
Having rested a couple of days after a large-scale show, Alla Borisovna finally celebrated her anniversary with friends. In one of the Moscow restaurants all the “cream” of the stellar society gathered - from Kirkorov and Baskov to Dmitry and Svetlana Medvedev. Both Pugacheva herself and her guests at the party sang and danced a lot.
"Our Alla"
And a few days later, on the same occasion, a concert called “Our Alla” was held at the “Gogol Center”. This time the birthday girl watched what was happening on the stage from the audience, and her songs were performed by famous artists, including Yulia Peresild, Yang Ge, the Zveri group, actor Alexander Gorchilin and others.
Jurmala humor
In the summer, Pugacheva and Galkin with the whole family went to Jurmala. There Alla Borisovna and her friend Laima Vaikule entertained themselves, exercising their wit - they shot a series of videos called “Ladies from the Dunes”. Maxim Galkin acted as a cameraman and posted new episodes of this "comedy show" on Instagram. Fans of the star family found the videos “wildly cool”.
Of course, this is not all that Alla and Maxim pleased their fans with while relaxing in the Baltic states. The couple showed in social networks how he arranges family walks, meets with friends, bathes and so on. Followers were touched by all the photos and videos of the star family, especially those where the couple’s children appeared. So, a few hundred likes gathered a video where little Lisa does yoga.
Show - take two
The anniversary concert "Postscript" was not planned to be repeated anywhere outside Moscow. An exception was made for Minsk, where Pugacheva re-presented her show in November.
The singer explained that she was not going to go on tour, but, “once invited,” she decided to perform. When reporters asked why she had brought her Postscriptum to Minsk, Alla Borisovna explained that her paternal grandfather was from the Mogilev province, which means that Belarus is her second homeland.
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As the media wrote, the concert in Minsk was, perhaps, even better than in Moscow: some irregularities were smoothed out, there was more live sound. True, the artist refused to encore, citing ill health.
Premiere of "That same concert"
At the beginning of December in the Moscow cinema "Oktyabr" the premiere of the film "That same concert" - the film version of the Moscow show by Pugacheva took place. As the star explained, she decided to shoot a version for cinemas, because she simply could not perform with a concert of this magnitude in all the cities where she was expected.
The distributors at first treated the star's idea with caution: for Russia a "cinema concert" is an unusual thing. Although this format was not invented by Pugacheva at all: remember, for example, The Green Theater in Zemfira, filmed by Renata Litvinova, that concert did not make it to the big screens, but it was still very popular.
As a result, the press writes, viewers in the cinema may have received even more from the anniversary concert than those who actually attended it. Indeed, there are many close-ups in the film: facial expressions, emotions, eyes - all this at a regular concert cannot be seen even from the front rows. And Pugacheva in our country has always been loved not only for her songs, but also for that “theater of one actor”, which she invariably arranges on stage. It's one thing to just sing, it's quite another to “live” in a couple of minutes the story told in each song. And, by the way, in terms of sound, maybe the audience in the cinemas was also more fortunate: judging by the reviews, at the concert in the Kremlin, he was ideal only in the stalls.
To date, “That same concert” has been watched in the cinema by about 288 thousand spectators, fees at the moment exceed $ 1,3 million.
Interview with Maxim Galkin about his wife
At the end of the year, a large interview was published by Maxim Galkin, in which, among other things, he spoke about his relationship with Alla Pugacheva, about their family and raising children. The showman became the hero of Irina Shikhman's YouTube show “And Talk?”. The artist called his wife “an insanely responsible mother,” who pays more attention to children than he does.
Galkin also spoke about his 27-year age difference with Pugacheva.
“Initially, I was a pensioner at heart, and she is so young. That is, it is much easier to climb, easy to make decisions. Then Alla once told me a very good thing: “Can I grow old with you?”. I said yes to her. Calmly in the sense that I will not change the relationship in the family, I will not change her, I will not change what we have. That she can be calm, ”he said.
According to Maxim, before their marriage, she didn’t receive a normal family, life, man and woman relations.
No "lights"
This year, Alla Borisovna did not participate in any filming of New Year's programs on TV channels. In the past New Year's holidays, the singer, by the way, although she did not act in the "blue lights", still appeared on the screen: Channel One again aired her performance, filmed a year earlier.
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But - a unique case - Pugacheva starred with Maxim Galkin in the festive release of the show by Nastya Ivleeva. Apparently, the artist is now more interested in the young audience, which prefers YouTube to TV even in the New Year.
“The Year of Pugacheva” is coming to an end, but, we are sure, the singer is not going to disappear from the public's sight. However, for the festive period, she still took a break and recently appeared only at the premiere of the film version of her concert. We are waiting for new informational reasons from the star in the upcoming 2020.
