Singer Václav Neckář celebrates his eightieth birthday in October 2023. On this occasion, we are publishing his autobiography All My Wars, which he worked on for more than five years. He tells his life story without embellishment and humbly entrusts readers with the keys to his thirteen chambers. In the book richly equipped with photographs, even the singer's rock fans will certainly find a large amount of surprising information that they did not know before.
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Václav introduces his autobiography with the words:
Sometimes someone tries to comfort me: Your eighties - that's no age! But I know it is. After all, what have I been through in those eighty years! True, I don't remember much from the Second World War, during which I was born - I only know family stories about hiding paratroopers - but beyond that my memories are clear.
The year 1948 and the brutal rise of the communists, who stripped our entire family of ideals and illusions. The laid-back sixties, when I literally stomped my little place on the boards that mean the world out of the ground and gripped the microphone as tightly as I could. The year 1968, with it a cold shower and a rough awakening from the dream of a great career at home and in the world. The 1970s, when I realized that life in and out of show business is a struggle and that not all enemies can be defeated, even if one is at the peak of his powers and goes into battle with a clean slate and conscience and armed with talent and determination. The eighties, the favor of the crowds, the bright lights of the ramps and often darkness behind them. Then the nineties and the nagging question on my lips: Am I not at the beginning again? A short circuit, a half-erased "hard drive" of the brain and an absolute re-alignment of values. And in the end, calming down, when a person finally stops fighting with fate and himself, so that what he really always wanted - and didn't know about it - could quietly come to him...
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In this book I put my memories without embellishments. I believe you will accept me as I am.

* Your Vasek