…a meloun is a fiction based on a bilingual equivoke. It literally means “with melon”in Czech, but sounds accurately like “I'm alone” in English - and this statement is really true. The fictive group was established in 1982 when Pavel Čamrda walked through night Kladno City Park and was mugged by two bandits, Jan Gabriel Voklobák and Koloman Pyškytle. The strong cry of Čamrda persuades the bandits that he is a good singer so, instead of mugging Čamrda, they decide to establish a musical group. Voklobák plays the bass (the Czech word for "bass" is a synonym that …
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