Hungarian rock

Über Hungarian rock

Magyar rock began in the mid-1960s when Illés, Omega, and Metro built a Hungarian-language answer to British beat groups, and matured in the 1970s prog era with Locomotiv GT and the LGT-Omega-Illés trio that defined every Eastern Bloc summer festival. The genre kept reinventing itself across the decades: Edda Művek and Beatrice in the stadium-rock 1980s, Tankcsapda's hard rock from Debrecen in the 1990s, Quimby's literate Budapest alt-rock from the millennium onwards. Sung in Hungarian almost without exception, with a continuous canon that maps onto seven decades of national history.

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