The pop group "Stalker" was born on July 17, 1985. On this day, its participants, who studied at the same institute, decided to become professional musicians. The group was organized by Andrey Derzhavin - a young composer, author of all music and arrangements. His friend, a professional disc jockey Sergey Kostrov, the author of all lyrics, helped him in this. Having left the walls of the beloved university, the guys record the first album “STARS”, choosing “electro-pop” as their style. The Stalker is offered a two-year contract by the Philharmonic of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukhta), and the group begins a long tour of the cities of the country ... During the tour, the guys prepare a new album for recording. But there is practically no free time to work in the studio, and Andrey decides to record it right on the trip. This is how the “FIRST HAND NEWS” is born. The song “I'll Wait” immediately becomes a hit twice, takes 1st place in the program “Music Tournament”.
The tour continues ... Concerts everywhere are held with great success, apparently also because "Stalker" categorically refuses the phonogram. The guys use computers, synthesizers, samplers at their concerts, perfectly mastering this complex technique. ... At the end of 1988, during a tour in the city of Sevastopol, the case brings Andrei and Alexander Kutikov from The Time Machine. Having visited between the performances of Mashiny at the concerts of Stalker, Alexander offers Andrei to record a new album and two giant discs in his Synthesis studio. In January 1989, work began on the recording of the album "LIFE IN A FANCY WORLD". Alexander Kutikov, who became the sound producer of Stalker, successfully forms a new - "Stalker" sound. The recording of this material lasts almost half a year. pop group "STALKER" - is ANDREI DERZHAVIN - synthesizers, vocals, programming, leader; ALEXANDER CHUVASHEV - drums, rhythm composer, backing vocals; VITALY LICHTENSTEIN - synthesizers, computers, backing vocals; SERGEY KOSTROV is the author of all lyrics, rarely performs on stage, as he is busy with the sound engineering of concerts and writes poetry all the time.