Všechny moje války - Autobiografie – Neckář Václav (2023)

Singer Václav Neckář is celebrating his eightieth birthday in October 2023. On this occasion, we are releasing his autobiography All My Wars, which he has been working on for over five years. He tells his life story candidly and humbly entrusts readers with the keys to his thirteen chambers. In the richly illustrated book, even the singer's die-hard fans will surely find a wealth of surprising information that they did not know before. ***** Václav introduces his autobiography with the words: Sometimes someone tries to console me: Václav, eighty – that's not old at all! But I know it is. Just think of everything I've experienced in those eighty years! True, I don't remember much from World War II, during which I was born – I only know family stories about hiding parachutists – but my memories become clear after that. The year 1948 and the brutal rise of the communists, who stripped our whole family of ideals and illusions. The relaxed sixties, when I literally fought for my small place on the boards that mean the world, and I grabbed the microphone as tightly as I could. The year 1968, with it came a cold shower and a harsh awakening from the dream of a great career at home and abroad. The seventies, when I realized that life in show business and outside of it is a struggle and that not all...