Plastic people of the univers

< Psychedelic rock < Rock 60-70's < Pop/Rock < Listening < Musicothèque < Music Studio <
TwitterFacebook
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
http://allmusic.com/artist/p19906

The Plastic People of the Universe | AllMusic

by John Dougan This band's debut may well have been one of the most amazing and radical records to be released during the punk era (or any era for that matter), recorded under the most extreme conditions in the years before punk rock was a reality (1973-1974). Prague's Plastic People of the Universe, and the band they later became, Pulnoc, remain one of rock & roll's great stories of triumph and how great music can be produced and survive even in the most hostile of environments. The band was founded in 1968 soon after 500,000 Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia. With the Kremlin not being particularly fond of Western-style rock that wasn't sanctioned by the state, the Plastic People, to paraphrase the Jefferson Airplane, quickly became outlaws in the eyes of Moscow (and the ruling Soviet government in Prague).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%27n%27_Roll_(play)

Rock 'n' Roll (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The play is concerned with the significance of rock and roll in the emergence of the socialist movement in Eastern Bloc Czechoslovakia between the Prague Spring of 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989 . Taking place in Cambridge , England and in Prague , the play contrasts the attitudes of a young Czech Ph.D student and rock music fan who becomes appalled by the repressive regime in his home country with those of his British Marxist professor who unrepentantly continues to believe in the Soviet ideal. The play takes place over several decades from the late 1960s until 1990, ending with a concert given by The Rolling Stones that year in Prague.