Loading details…
Artist
The Beatmen
12+ albums
big beatrockslovakczechoslovakslovak bigbit
about
The Beatmen was a short-lived Slovak (then part of Czechoslovakia) rock band active between 1964 and 1966. They launched the career of Dežo Ursiny, who was a member of The Beatmen aged 17. The band was a one-off sensation in Czechoslovakia, they released two singles during 1965 before they decided to relocate to West Germany (which meant to illegally leave the communist Czechoslovakia). There they released one single which flopped and the band disbanded afterwards due to lack of success. The Beatmen (apparent even by the name) were greatly inspired by The Beatles. They played their songs at their concerts, to a huge success of the audiences, and they wrote their own songs that resembled mostly the mersey sound of the early Beatles, and which were in any way very well-written. Most of their original songs (though not all) were sung in English. 4 of them were officially released during their time and a bunch of other songs appeared on 1997's Dežo Ursiny's compilation albums Pevniny a vrchy 1&2. and various other compilations. The band's classic lineup consisted of Ursiny (lead guitar), Miroslav Bedrik (rhythm guitar), Marián Bednár (bass) and Peter Petro (drums). All members sang vocals. The initial lineup included lead guitarist Stano Herko, who would be replaced by Ursiny. Dežo Ursiny would not follow the group to West Germany, instead he would go to form another very succesful Slovak band (of even shorter existence) The Soulmen in 1967. He was replaced by Juraj Eperjesi a
