Do you want to play rock? You have to play at the Festival of Political Song!
Rock musician Bedřich Ziegler was born on 16 November 1961 in Karlovy Vary, his mother worked as a saleswoman. After training as an agricultural machinery repairer and car mechanic at STS [Machine Tractor Station - transl.] Toužim, he joined the Jan Becher liquor factory in Karlovy Vary as a driver and wagon driver, where he worked until the 1990s. At the age of seventeen, he began to perform as a singer with the band Atomic. After completing his military service, he continued as a singer in the hard rock band Barock. The band faced normalization censorship regarding song lyrics, clothing during concerts and other manifestations but never permanently lost their permission to perform officially, the so-called playlist. In 1988, the band Barock took part in the pro-regime Festival of Political Song in Sokolov. Bedřich Ziegler remained a member of Barock until 2008 when the band stopped performing publicly. Around that time, he also founded the band Uriah Heep Revival, which plays the legendary British band‘s hits. He is also involved in making concert recordings of younger musicians.