Career
He co-founded Aquarium with a childhood friend, Anatoly "George" Gunitsky, in 1972 as a post-modernistic theater-centric effort that involved poetry and music. Gunitsky provided absurdist, highly symbolic lyrics to some of BG's earliest songs. Perestroika has ushered in a new era of opportunity for rock musicians; several of the more prominent ones got breaks in the West.
His intention is to tell about the alternatives in music, about the music which nobody else plays in today's radio despite of its artistic value and originality.