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"Some of the shots plainly coincide. As we filmed this video 20 years earlier, I think we were first. That's it."<br/> <br/> Makarevich's Time Machine is one of Russia's oldest active rock bands.<br/> <br/> Both clips show the bands' front men -- Thom Yorke, in Radiohead’s case -- as they take long elevator rides, with people coming and going as the lift visits different floors. There are similarities in some of the camera angles, but the story lines and secondary characters differ considerably.<br/> <br/> Radiohead first performed Lift in 1996, but it was only released this summer as part of a 20th-anniversary reissue of the group's OK Computer album. The lyrics describe someone being “stuck in a lift.”<br/> <br/> A fan of The Beatles, Makarevich founded Mashina Vremeni in the Soviet Union in 1969 and has been its front man ever since.<br/> <br/> In 2008, he performed on Red Square at a concert in support of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.<br/> <br/> More recently, however, he has been marginalized in Russia for his outspoken criticism of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which two years ago saw him branded a “traitor” by members of parliament. 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