Franciszek Walicki | |
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Born | Łódź, Poland | 20 July 1921
Died | 3 October 2015 Gdynia, Poland | (aged 94)
Nationality | POL |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, musician |
Honours | Righteous Among the Nations Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta |
Righteous Among the Nations |
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Franciszek Walicki (20 July 1921 – 3 October 2015) was a Polish journalist.[1] He was considered the father of Polish beat and rock music, calling them big-beat as rock and roll was unacceptable name for the authorities of the Polish People's Republic at the time.[2]
In 1956 he and Leopold Tyrmand organized the first Jazz Festival in Sopot. Walicki also founded a number of important Polish bands: