Articles tagged 'music'
| Title | Headline | Summary | Media | Date | hf:tags | |
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 | Sid | In search of Sid | A random face in a documentary about the Prague Spring led to a wild goose chase to track down its owner. It belonged to Zdeněk ‘Sid’ Kučera, a jazz trumpeter and singer whose band was filmed performing Georgie Fame’s Bonnie and Clyde in a Prague club. Sid emigrated not long after the Soviet tanks arrived – but finally got in touch from his adopted home in Switzerland. | BBC From Our Own Correspondent | 2020-03-19 | communism czech czechoslovakia music prague soviet-union |
 | Vinyl | Czech town breaks records thanks to vinyl revival | The Czech town of Loděnice just to the south of Prague has become the global capital of vinyl, thanks to some canny business decisions made in the 1990s. Vinyl is back, and it’s big business – and there’s a good chance your limited edition Coldplay or U2 disc was made at the GZ media company. Last year made it made some 20 million records. | BBC Radio 4 | 2015-10-08 | business czech music |