Hlavsa, Milan

Hlavsa, Milan
▪ 2002
Mejla Hlavsa 
      Czech musician (b. March 6, 1951, Prague, Czech. [now Czech Rep.]—d. Jan. 5, 2001, Prague), founded (1968) and served as songwriter and bass guitarist for the underground rock and roll band Plastic People of the Universe, which became a symbol of political unrest in communist Czechoslovakia. Plastic People, which sang in English until the early 1970s, was banned by the Czech government in 1970. The band continued to perform, however, and to make recordings, which were surreptitiously distributed and smuggled out of the country to the West. The arrest of Hlavsa and other rock musicians in 1976 helped to galvanize the formation of the Czech human rights movement Charter 77.

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