“I was completely burnt out. He invited me to Láďa Štaidl and said: “Look, I don’t have much time, so here’s a tape recorder and record some of your stuff for me.” So I recorded some of my videos for him there in about forty minutes. And then he calls me and says, “Hey, it’s not bad, but that’s how we did it when we were young, but that’s not how a hit is made today. You have to have a clear head, that is, the head of the chorus, and write the text for it. It will be for Gotta. If it’s good, we’ll hire you as a team texter,” he recalled Jiří Schmitzer on the website News.headliner.cz.
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“And he gave me one such head. God, how was that? I remember now, “Old song”, that was the head. And all I could think of was “The old song, it’s like mold”. And nothing more… Of course, one could continue… as some mycologist sees it, for example… How wonderful and original and beautiful and useful (like penicillin) and exceptional and smart etc… But that would not be a text for Gott. Well, nothing came out of me simply for this purpose, and the fact that I tried, there was money in it!” added the son of the actor Jíří Sovák (†79) with humor.
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