Czech pop/rock/soul orchestra, led by , backing band of his brother . Founded in November 1966 as The Hippopotamuses or The , renamed to Apollobeat in 1967 after becoming the second staff orchestra at the Apollo theatre in Prague. Involuntarily renamed to in the early 1970s.
Name Vars
- Apollo
- Apollo Band
- Apollo Beat Group
- Apollo Pavla Krejči
- Apollo Pavla Krejčí
- Apollobeat J. Spáleného
- Apollobeat Jan Spálený
- Apollobeat Jana Spáleného
- Apollobeat O. Spáleného
- Orchestr Apollo
- The Apollobeat
Aliases
- Orchestr Jana Spáleného
- The Hipp's
Members
- Jan Spálený
- Pavel Krejča
- Vladimír Bár
- Petr Spálený
- Viktor Sodoma
- Pavel Lébl
- Eduard Parma Jr.
- Miroslav Žižka
- Josef Švehla
- Jan Hauser
- Josef Havlíček
- Jan Rotter
- Václav Matoušek
- Jan Podjukl
- Jaroslav Šantrůček