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Biography
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Apollobeat
Effective period / Period of releases: 1967 - 1980
Members: Jan Spálený, Vlado Čech, Pavel Krejča, Vladimír Bár, Petr Spálený, Viktor Sodoma, Pavel Lébl, Eduard Parma Jr., Miroslav Žižka, Josef Švehla (2), Jan Hauser, Josef Havlíček, Jan Rotter, Václav Matoušek, Jan Podjukl, Jaroslav Šantrůček (2)
Czech pop/rock/soul orchestra, led by Jan Spálený, backing band of his brother Petr Spálený. Founded in November 1966 as The Hippopotamuses or The , renamed to Apollobeat in 1967 after becoming the second staff orchestra at the Apollo theatre in Prague. Involuntarily renamed to Orchestr Jana Spáleného in the early 1970s.:format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-1411893-1320192204.jpeg.jpg){kind=link}