Cerny was one of the founding members of the Civic Forum, which was instrumental in the transition to democracy.
Cerny died on Thursday in a hospital in Prague, his colleague Jan Rejzek announced on Czech public television. No details were given.Born Feb. 25, 1936 in Prague, Cerny started writing about rock’n’roll in a weekly magazine for young people in the early 1960s in Czechoslovakia, where such a novelty was viewed with suspicion by the communist authorities.
Cerny was in charge of the show with his first wife, Miroslava, until 1969. He was fired after he played a song ridiculing the Soviet troops who invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush the Prague Spring, the brief period of liberal reforms meant to lead to the democratization of the country.Article content
In 1971, lacking opportunities for work under the hard-line communist regime that took over after the invasion, he began to tour the country with a bag full of records, performing in a show known as an anti-discotheque.
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