Posters depicting the members of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd came to relieve Shalyapin’s portrait hung over Nikolai’s bed.

Noskov never got an official vocal education for a curious twist of fate, although he applied at the Gnesinykh state musical college.

At one of the turning points in his life invited to Moscow by an entrepreneur for audition, Noskov participated in several Moscow-based musical bands, then routinely dubbed "VIA" (Vocal-Instrumental Ensemble), but none of those early engagements held him for long.

David Tukhmanov decided to create a real hard-rock band with Noskov as lead singer.

[5] After a few live performances and a recorded album called NLO (UFO) the band was suppressed and crushed by the authorities and the press.

The warming of relations with the West, and the era of mutual fraternizing allowed to create a Russian rock band that would sell in the USA.

The concept of the album was to win the hearts of the American audience with reverential bows to the Russian cultural roots while still playing hard rock/heavy metal.

written by Noskov and the album as a whole went on to win some high-ranking places on the radio and MTV, and in Denmark it even acquired gold status.

Something from my past life, unbidden, some foreign language words ...[10]In 1998 he released his debut solo album Я тебя люблю (another title Блажь).

In 2011 he sang Magomaev's song Мелодия on television music show Property of the Republic and won the competition.

[12] In 2015 he was member of the jury in second season of reality TV series Glavnaya Stsena[13] Now he is recording his seventh studio album, which is to be released in 2019; songs from the upcoming album are Нет ни годы, Оно того стоит, Седые дети and upcoming duet with singer IVAN In 2022, Noskov supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine.