Star, myths — and reality. The biggest pop star in Czechoslovakia was Karel Gott — and in a certain sense he remains so in the Czech Republic to this day. However, his story is not the traditional narrative of a musical great. Gott's fate cannot be separated from the history of local society and politics. In the 1960s, the young singer became one of the faces of cultural liberation, while in the 1970s he sympathized with the period of censorship and loss of historical memory. The later era of the market and democracy then treated his legend without asking about the shadows at its roots. At the same time, Gott's fame and his star image are anything but self-evident: throughout his life, Gott remained both the narrator and the guardian of his own story. And thus also the story about Czechoslovakia, the music industry, negotiations in the local culture, power struggles and the power of the media. The independent portrait of Karel Gott by the music columnist Pavel Klusák tells this story with an emphasis on verified, new and little-known facts. Gott's book cuts through years of myths and fills in the gaps in the events surrounding Las Vegas, "practice emigration" and the Anticharta. It also describes the development of domestic show business and society. Karel Gott's destinies are a bit of history for all of us.