[6] In 1964, Lipnitsky was given his first Beatles record by Triloki Nath Kaul, the Indian Ambassador to the USSR, and became a fan of the band.

[1] His friends in the rock scene included Artemy Troitsky, Viktor Tsoi, Sergey Kuryokhin, Boris Grebenshchikov, Konstantin Kinchev, and Mike Naumenko.

[citation needed] Lipnitsky sold his art collection to buy the band's equipment and learned to play bass.

[citation needed] From 1990 to 1993, Lipnitsky and Joanna Stingray worked on the TV program Red Wave-21.

[9] From 2010, he hosted a program dedicated to Russian rock on the radio station Finam FM.