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Rock, punk-rock, indie-rock, rock'n'roll, and blues.
I am also fond of rhythm and blues how blues-rock was called in 1960's : Yardbirds (later known as Led Zeppelin), Moody Blues, Canned Heat, Blues Project, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Rolling Stones.
What as for pure blues, I love esp. John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf.
I love Janis Joplin and Sinéad O'Connor for the way they express their emotions.
Strong melodies of Syd Barrett and the early stuff he composed for Pink Floyd had a great impact on me, too.
I also like some good punk – Pixies, Ramones, Presidents of the United States of America or NOFX.
But during my childhood, I admired just The Beatles, nothing else. I have read at least 30 books about them and if I remembered everything, I could write the 31st:-)
Hair (dir. Milos Forman, 1979), Blow Up (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966), Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, 1961), Fleshdance (dir. Ken Gibbs, 1983), La Femme Nikita (dir. Luc Besson, 1990), 3 hommes et un couffin (dir. Coline Serreau, 1985), La fabuleux destin d..Amélie Poulain (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
a serial story Brideshead Revisited (dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg and Charles Sturridge, 1981) with Jeremy Irons
Edgar Allan Poe: Dobrodruzstvi Arthura Gordona Pyma (The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym, 1838), E.T.A.Hoffmann: Dabluv elixir (Devil's Elixir, Prague 1971), Sylvia Plath: Pod sklenenym zvonem (The Bell Jar, 1953), Jan Weiss: Dum o tisici patrech (Prague 1964), biographies of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and other rock bands. Books of my childhood - Nikolaj Nosov: Neznalek ve Slunecnim meste (Know-Nothing In Sun-City, 1958), Jiri Trnka: Zahrada (Garden, Prague 1962), Jiri Cerny, Pavel Zatka, Zdenek Adla: Obrazky z ceskych dejin a povesti (Pictures from Czech History and Myths, Prague 1982), Joe Kaufman: Proc a jak? (Why and How?)
John Lennon