Time was a

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from

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

that was formed in 1971 by

Dado Topić Adolf "Dado" Topić (born 4 September 1950, Siverić at Drniš) is a rock musician from Croatia and the former Yugoslavia. He was the lead singer and founder of Time, a 1970s progressive rock band. From 1970 to late 1971, he was also the lead sin ...

(

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

) after leaving his previous band Korni Grupa. The original lineup consisted of, in addition to Topić, Tihomir "Pop" Asanović (

organ Organ may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a part of an organism Musical instruments * Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone ** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument ** Hammond ...

), Vedran Božić (

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

), Mario Mavrin (

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), Ratko Divjak (

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s) and Brane Lambert Živković (

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

and

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). Time frequently changed lineup and after three albums and many tours disbanded in late 1977 and

started his solo career. In 1998 and 2001, Time reunited to play a limited number of live concerts. Now they still play together as a rock trio. Time played a style of

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

with some

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

influences, perhaps similar to musical notions expressed by King Crimson,

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Steely Dan Steely Dan is an American rock band founded in 1971 in New York by Walter Becker (guitars, bass, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). Initially the band had a stable lineup, but in 1974, Becker and Fagen retired from live ...

. The first album has a prominent

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, piano and flute. "''Time II''" has a harder sound and includes several

ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...

s. The third album may be considered to have a jazz-

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production style. The most popular songs were "Da li znaš da te volim", "Rock 'n' roll u Beogradu", "Istina mašina" and others.

Discography

Albums

* "

Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...

" (1972), ( Jugoton) / ( Croatia Records) * "

Time II Wintersun is a Finnish heavy metal music, heavy metal band from Helsinki originally formed as the side project of Jari Mäenpää, then-vocalist and guitarist of folk metal band Ensiferum. In 2003, Mäenpää began pulling together songs that ...

" (1975) * " Život u čizmama sa visokom petom" (1976)

Singles

* 1973: "Život moj / Pjesma No.3" (Jugoton) * 1973: "Reci Ciganko, što mi u dlanu piše / Makedonija" (Jugoton) * 1975: "Kad jednom otkrijem čovjeka u sebi / Da li znaš da te volim" (

PGP RTB PGP-RTB (abbreviation for sr, Produkcija gramofonskih ploča Radio televizije Beograd) was a major state-owned record label and chain record store in the former SFR Yugoslavia, based in Belgrade, Socialist Republic of Serbia. After the breaku ...

) * 1976: "Tin i Tina / Dok sjedim ovako u tvojoj blizini" (PGP RTB) * 1976: "Kad smo ja i moj miš bili bokseri / Dok ja i moj miš sviramo jazz" (PGP RTB) * 1976: "Poželi nešto / Superstar" (PGP RTB)

Compilation albums

* "Time & Dado Topić - Ultimate Collection" (2007), (Croatia Records)

References

Grupa Time
{{DEFAULTSORT:Time (rock band) Croatian rock music groups Croatian progressive rock groups Musical groups established in 1971 Musical groups disestablished in 1977 Yugoslav progressive rock groups