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Olympic (band)
Olympic is a Czech rock band, founded in 1962 in Prague. The group celebrated 55 years in 2017. Members *Petr Janda (guitar, lead vocals) *Milan Broum (bass guitar, backing vocals) *Martin Vajgl (drums, backing vocals) *Pavel Březina (keyboards, backing vocals) Former members *Petr Kaplan (rhythm guitar, vocals, 1962–1963; died 2007) *Jaromír Klempíř (keyboards/ionika, 1962–1964; died 2016) * Pavel Bobek (vocals, 1962–1965; died 2013) *Jiří Laurent (rhythm guitar, vocals, 1963–1965; died 2016) *Miki Volek (vocals, 1962–1966; died 1996) *Pavel Chrastina (bass guitar, vocals, 1962–1969; died 2021) *Jan Antonín Pacák (drums, vocals, 1965–1971; died 2007) *Petr Hejduk (drums, vocals, 1971–1985; died 1995) *Miroslav Berka (keyboards, vocals, 1962–1987; died 1987) *Milan Peroutka (drums, vocals, 1986–2013; died 2013) *Jiří Valenta (keyboards, vocals, 1986–2020) Discography Studio albums *1968: ''Želva Želva ( pl, Pozelwa) is a town in Ukmergė di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate oceanic climate, with relatively warm summers and chilly winters. Prague is a political, cultural, and economic hub of central Europe, with a rich history and Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectures. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia and residence of several Holy Roman Emperors, most notably Charles IV (r. 1346–1378). It was an important city to the Habsburg monarchy and Austro-Hungarian Empire. The city played major roles in the Bohemian and the Protestant Reformations, the Thirty Years' War and in 20th-century history as the capital of Czechoslovakia between the World Wars and the post-war Communist era. Prague is home to a number of well-known cultural attractions, many of which survived the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard rock music was produced by the Kinks, the Who, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the late 1960s, bands such as Blue Cheer, the Jeff Beck Group, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Golden Earring, Steppenwolf and Deep Purple also produced hard rock. The genre developed into a major form of popular music in the 1970s, with the Who, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple being joined by Queen, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Kiss, and Van Halen. During the 1980s, some hard rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock.V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, ''All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul'' (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre with an emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, early pop rock was influenced by the beat, arrangements, and original style of rock and roll (and sometimes doo-wop). It may be viewed as a distinct genre field rather than music that overlaps with pop and rock. The detractors of pop rock often deride it as a slick, commercial product and less authentic than rock music. Characteristics and etymology Much pop and rock music has been very similar in sound, instrumentation and even lyrical content. The terms "pop rock" and "power pop" have been used to describe more commercially successful music that uses elements from, or the form of, rock music. Writer Johan Fornas views pop/rock as "one single, continuous genre field", rather than distinct categories. To the authors Larry Starr and Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock And Roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a Genre (music), genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It Origins of rock and roll, originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie woogie, gospel music, gospel, as well as country music. While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s,Peterson, Richard A. ''Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity'' (1999), p. 9, . the genre did not acquire its name until 1954. According to journalist Greg Kot, "rock and roll" refers to a style of popular music originating in the United States in the 1950s. By the mid-1960s, rock and roll had developed into "the more encompassing international style known as rock music, though the latter also continued to be known in many circles as rock and roll."Kot, Greg"Rock and roll", in the ''Encyclopædia Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
František Ringo Čech
František Ringo Čech (born 9 July 1943) is a Czech musician, songwriter, painter, actor, comedian, publicist, politician, dramatist, screenwriter, and author. Life and career Early musical career: 1959–1965 František Čech was born in Prague in 1943 to František Čech Pražský, a musician of Viennese origin. From 1959 to 1963, he worked as a radio mechanic and television technician, while playing drums in various Dixieland and brass ensembles, such as Storyville Jazz, which also included Ivan Mládek and Ivo Pešák. In 1963, he cofounded the rock band Olympic together with Jaromír Klempíř, and began writing song lyrics for the first time. He studied drums at the Prague Conservatory from 1963 to 1965, as well as folklore, piano, and recorder. In December 1965, he travelled to the United States with the Jiří Srnec black light theatre, where his wife, Magda, performed, thus ending his stint with Olympic. It was around this time that he adopted the nickname Ringo, af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiří Korn
Jiří Korn (born May 17, 1949 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech recording artist and actor. Korn is a highly acclaimed musician in his native Czechoslovakia, and remains after his five decade long career one of the most prominent Czech singer-songwriters, but is internationally perhaps best known for his single ''Miss Moskva'', which received radio play in most European countries, including France, Germany, Croatia, Hungary and Norway. Biography Jiří Korn began his music career with the rock band Rebels in its 1967 establishment. The group disbanded in 1970; one album, ''Šípková Růženka'', was released during this period. In the early 1970s Korn joined the band Olympic. He also became a solo artist and released his first album ''LP 01''. His single ''Yvetta'' (1972), written by Karel Svoboda, became his first solo hit. In 1977 and 1978, Korn was 3rd and 2nd place respectively in the Zlatý slavík music poll of popular Czechoslovakia music artists, which was frequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Bobek
Pavel Bobek (16 September 1937 − 20 November 2013) was a Czech singer. Career From 1963 to 1965 he was the vocalist of the pioneering classic rock group Olympic, and from 1967 he subsequently performed as a member of the Semafor Musical Theatre, with Jiří Brabec. During his career, he performed and recorded his own versions of rock-based standards, such as Lou Reed's " Walk On The Wild Side", and Frank Zappa's " Harder Than Your Husband". In the country style, Bobek covered Kenny Rogers' "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" (with Jiří Grossmann), and John Denver's " Take Me Home Country Roads" (the latter using Czech lyrics by Vladimír Poštulka). Fame outside the Czech Republic A fortuitous meeting with American country singer Johnny Cash in 1978 advanced his profile outside of the Czech Republic, when they got together on the floor of the US Embassy to sing the song "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and, in 1980, he was awarded the Zlatá Porta za Zásluhy, a high Czech h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Želva (album)
''Želva'' is an album from 1968 from the Czech band Olympic, published by Supraphon Supraphon Music Publishing is a Czech record label, oriented mainly towards publishing classical music and popular music, with an emphasis on Czech and Slovak composers. History The Supraphon name was first registered as a trademark in 1932. T .... Its catalogue numbers are 1 13 0412 (stereo), 0 13 0412 (mono). The cover shows a drawn turtle. It was later published with uniformed covers. Track listing Side A # Želva (Petr Janda/Pavel Chrastina) - 3:38 # Vzpomínka plíživá (Ladislav Klein-Zdeněk Rytíř) - 2:47 # Línej skaut (Petr Janda/Pavel Chrastina) - 2:12 # Dám zejtra zas flám (Petr Janda/Pavel Chrastina) - 2:26 # Modravé mámení (Petr Janda/Pavel Chrastina) - 2:18 # Nikdo neotvírá (Petr Janda/Pavel Chrastina) - 2:07 Side B # Nebezpečná postava (Petr Janda/František Ringo Čech) - 1:42 # Snad jsem to zavinil já (Petr Janda/Pavel Chrastina) - 3:04 # Dědečkův duch (Petr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pták Rosomák
''Pták Rosomák'' is the second album of Czech band Olympic published in 1969 at Supraphon Supraphon Music Publishing is a Czech record label, oriented mainly towards publishing classical music and popular music, with an emphasis on Czech and Slovak composers. History The Supraphon name was first registered as a trademark in 1932. T .... Its catalogue numbers are: 0 13 0589 (mono) and 1 13 0589 (stereo). The original album had an inset as well. It was republished in 1990 as an album and in 2005 in CD as a renewed version. Songs Side A # Krásná neznámá (Petr Janda/Pavel Chrastina) - 2:30 # Ikarus blues (Ladislav Klein/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 5:00 # Báječné místo (Petr Janda/Pavel Chrastina) - 4:30 # Everybody (Petr Janda/Pavel Chrastina) - 3:50 # O půlnoci (Petr Janda/Pavel Chrastina) - 2:50 # Pták Rosomák (Petr Janda/Pavel Chrastina) - 2:51 Side B # Tvé neklidné svědomí (Petr Janda/František Ringo Čech/Pavel Chrastina) - 3:30 # Čekám na zázrak (Petr Jand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jedeme, Jedeme
''Jedeme, jedeme'' (or ''Jedeme, jedeme, jedeme'' as shown on the inner cover of the album) is the third album of the Czech band Olympic published in 1971 by Supraphon Supraphon Music Publishing is a Czech record label, oriented mainly towards publishing classical music and popular music, with an emphasis on Czech and Slovak composers. History The Supraphon name was first registered as a trademark in 1932. T .... It had a cover with multiple pages. It was the band’s first stereo album. Songs of the album Side A * Pět cestujících (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 5:25 * Když jsem bejval tramp (Petr Janda/Eduard Krečmar) - 2:08 * Mr. Den a lady Noc (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:19 * Brouk (Petr Janda/Eduard Krečmar) - 4:12 * Danny (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 6:07 Side B * Elixír (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:16 * Bláznivej Kiki (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:35 * Bon soir mademoiselle Paris (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) - 3:49 * Strážce majáku (Petr Janda/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic 4
''Olympic 4'' is the fourth album of the Czech band Olympic from 1973. It was published by Supraphon Supraphon Music Publishing is a Czech record label, oriented mainly towards publishing classical music and popular music, with an emphasis on Czech and Slovak composers. History The Supraphon name was first registered as a trademark in 1932. T .... Its catalogue number is 1 13 1475. Covers show some draws about the members. Track list Side A # Karneval (Petr Hejduk/Václav Fischer) – 3:57 # Stará láhev (Petr Janda/Václav Fischer) – 3:27 # Konec konců (Petr Hejduk/Ladislav Křístek) – 3:39 # Blázen (Petr Janda/Michal Prostějovský) – 3:03 # Únos (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) – 5:10 Side B # Harém (Petr Janda/Václav Fischer) – 4:55 # Jsem zvláštní (Petr Janda/Mirek Černý) – 5:31 # Vůně benzínu (Petr Janda/Václav Fischer) – 4:22 # Kánon (Petr Janda/Zdeněk Rytíř) – 3:59 References {{Authority control Olympic (band) albums 1973 al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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