GOTT Československý příběh - CDmp3 (Čte Vasil Fridrich, Jan Cina, Pavel Klusák)

He sang it in a song. A song that moved and divided... The first independent summary of Karel Gott's (1939–2019) artistic career has embarked on a difficult journey, as the singer meticulously arranged and directed the legend of himself. Leading music journalist Pavel Klusák was sometimes forced to investigate the singer's first steps from the ČKD workshops to the stages of Prague's dance halls, his outbursts, unfinished studies at the conservatory, and his engagement at the Semafor theater, which was the epicenter of cultural resistance in the 1960s. The analysis of the transformation of a promising star into a cantilena interpreter of ideologically harmless hits also deals in detail with Gott's allegedly highly successful tour in Las Vegas and the circumstances of his "training emigration" to West Germany (1971), which significantly influenced this transformation – under the pragmatic supervision of the architects of his success. In his lifelong effort for a non-conflict, seemingly apolitical cult of personality, however, the 42-time winner of the Golden Nightingale public poll did not allow himself to acknowledge that his stances also significantly polarized society. Narrators: Vasil Fridrich, Jan Cina, Jana Plodková, Pavel Klusák, Duration: 10 hours 49 minutes.