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"As at the end of the '50s, the rock & roll fever seemed to have just calmed down, twist and similar ones have just began to revive, a completely new and unusual music style has begun to spread. It is due to Beatles, who created the so-called beat-music. So they were the pioneers of the later beat-wave. A generation followed them in behaviour, fashion, and -above all- in music. That was a universal phenomenon at that time. Even if to a lesser degree, it touched also the young of the socialist countries who felt and demanded the music for themselves. Altough the original records could not spread in these countries, the radiowaves and of course the beat-wave could not be shaded by the Iron Curtain. The youth - mainly of grammar schools and universities- were sensitive to this kind of music, regarding their age, too. It was not by chance that - even with elementary instruments- they tried to follow the new trend, the new times' music. More and more amateur groups came to life who all made efforts to imitate each notes of the great ones. In the beginning, mainly the instrumental tracks were adapted in lack of the texts and the knowledge of foreign languages, the drafted ones became known as gibberish. But they became famous, and that was the point! School-bands became famous, their members became stars! When some of them were allowed to make records, the new style could prove its reason for existence. The Hungarian beat was born to life! We judge the results of these attempts differently today of course, since a couple of decades have passed from the first steps and popmusic has also changed a lot. "
Notes de l'album "Magyar Beatzenekarok Vol. 1."