Night (David Tukhmanov song)

Night (Russian: Ночь, romanized: Noch, incipit "Loves me, loves me not, I am struggling ...", also known under the title Unfinished[1][2][3]) is a 1984 song composed by David Tukhmanov with lyrics based on the poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky which he penned before his death (1930, started in 1928), written by Tukhmanov for the beginning of Nikolay Noskov's solo career.

The song aired only once in the USSR in the program "The Music Kiosk", because it was banned afterwards the severely critical article by Sergey Obraztsov in the newspaper "Soviet Culture".

The key musician, the soloist of "Moscow", Nikolai Noskov, for whom Tukhmanov wrote almost all the songs of the group, and who at that time already began to work in the ensemble "Singing Hearts", he offered to start a solo career and for this purpose wrote the first song "Night" based on fragments of the unfinished poem of Vladimir Mayakovsky written around the time of his death, 1930 (started in 1928).

The show was seen by Sergey Obraztsov, one of the major officially recognized theater figures of the USSR, a puppeteer who wrote a devastating article on the song in the newspaper "Soviet Culture".

Tukhmanov, after almost thirty years, recalled this: "An item appeared in the newspaper, in which it was written: how can you take such holy verses and make a pop song out of them?"