"Yandex Music" released a documentary "Still on the throne: the legacy of" King and Jester ""

By the release of the final episode of the King and the Jester series, Yandex Music presented a documentary video about the punk band - Still on the Throne: The Legacy of the King and the Jester.

In this video essay, the editors of the music service, along with the heroes of the nineties and zero, modern musicians, experts and fans understands the main components of the "King and Fool" phenomenon, and also explains why this group is much deeper and more interesting than Seems.

The filming was attended by:

• ex-participant of "The King and the Jester" Andrey Knyazev;
• producer Igor "Panker" Gudkov;
• series director Rustam Mosafir;
• actor Vlad Konoplev who played the Prince;
• hip-hop artist Loqiemean;
• rapper SQWOZ BAB;
• Danil Gerasimov, member of the Mytishchi on Fire group;
• music journalist and curator of the exhibition “Punk Culture. King and Jester" Boris Barabanov;
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• concert promoter, journalist and co-author of the book about the underground of the 90s “Songs to the Void” Ilya Zinin;
• fans of the group on the streets of St. Petersburg.

The heroes of the video essay talk about the phenomenon of punk, the place of the King and the Jester in this genre and the dislike of critics for the group in full concert halls. They also analyze the image of Mikhail "Gorshka" Gorshenev and punk rock as a phenomenon, talk about the influence of the group on modern culture.

Part of the film is dedicated to the same name TV series Kinopoisk. Igor "Panker" Gudkov shared why Rustam Mosafir did not want to take on the shooting and what made him change his mind, and the creators of the project explain what the term "punk fairy tale" means.

You can watch the documentary video essay “Still on the Throne: The Legacy of the King and the Jester” on the Yandex Music YouTube channel.