Apelsin

Apelsin
Band Apelsin live concert in Õlletoober, 2010
Band Apelsin live concert in Õlletoober, 2010
Background information
OriginTallinn
Genresrock/country/parody
Years active1974–present
MembersAnts Nuut
Allan Jakobi
Hillar King
Past membersTõnu Aare (deceased)
Aleksander Vilipere (deceased)
Harry Kõrvits
Gunnar Kriik
Ivo Linna
Mati Nuude (deceased)
Jaan Arder (deceased)

Apelsin (Estonian for Orange) was an Estonian band created in 1974. Their lyrics are in Estonian and Russian. During the Soviet era, their LP albums were issued by the Soviet music monopoly Melodiya. The Russian name of the band was Апельсин. In both Estonian and Russian, the band's name means orange. Many songs and much of the music of the band are satirical.[1] The band's combining music with humor (both onstage and offstage) was one of the reasons the band had become one of the most popular Estonian bands of all time.[2]

In 2016, a book about the band, Tsepeliini triumf: Eesti rock 1970. aastatel (Zeppelin's Triumph: Estonian Rock in the 1970s), was published.[3]

  1. ^ History of the Soviet Rock Music: Apelsin (in Russian)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference delfi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Andres Oja [et], Tsepeliini triumf: Eesti rock 1970. aastatel, 2016, Tänapäev, ISBN 9949850746