Apollobeat
Czech Beat Music Pioneers
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 Hipp’s, 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.
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 Hipp’s, 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.
