Melodie

Czechoslovakia

 
A pop and jazz music monthly, published 1963-2000. In the '60s when the situation was fairly liberal Melodie was an important magazine not only in Czechoslovakia but in the whole Eastern Bloc.
 

1967 November

 

 

San Francisko v záři světel (psychedelickych)
Jaromír Tůma, pp 252-253

The article "San Francisco at (psychedelic) night" includes a short overview of Frank Zappa's thoughts (and named Mothers Of Invention as San Franciscan group).

 

 
 

1969 February

 

 

Underground music a její sociální otazníky
Jozef Kotek, pp 37-40

On the cover is featured Czech singer Marta Kubišová. She was very famous in these years, especially after her song "Modlitba pro Martu" (A prayer for Marta) she did during the Prague Spring of 1968.

The article is titled - "Underground music and its social question marks".

 

 

 
 

1969 July

 

 

Splněné přání aneb Kdo je tady vlastně blázen
Alexander Goldscheider, pp 200-202

This is the first interview by any Czech journalist with Frank Zappa. Alexander Goldscheider did it in Fillmore East.