Mihály began in Scampolo and Non-Stop and became bassist for Omega in 1967. He also recorded several solo records and was also the author of a musical to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1956 anti-communist uprising, which premiered in 2006 under the title 56 Drops of Blood. .
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He last performed with Omega in 2014 at Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, where the band played together with the German band Scorpions. However, he did not agree with Omega’s performance in churches with the Oratorio project and also refused to play at the stadium in the hometown of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the village of Felcsút. He called it a political event. Kati Szöllössy then appeared as the bass guitarist, but Mihály was considered a member of the most famous Hungarian rock band until his death. He himself did not rule out further collaboration with other members of the band some time ago, but this did not happen.
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Tamás Mihály
Photo: FB group Omega
Omega is known as the Rolling Stones of the East and was founded in 1962. It played its last concert on November 8, 2019 in Budapest, where it was preceded by the band Nazareth. The band was to release a new album called Testamentum this year, canceling their planned concert tour due to the coronary crisis. Omega was the most successful rock band of the former Eastern bloc and in 1978 won a gold record in West Germany for 250,000 Skyrover albums sold.
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The most famous composition of the group became Gyöngyhajú lány (Girl with pearls in her hair), which was sung in Czech by Aleš Brichta and also became famous thanks to the German group Scorpions.
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The group was founded by a group of university students in 1962 in Budapest. Apart from Benkő, the founding members also included singer János Kóbor and drummer József Laux. Drummer Laux and keyboardist Gábor Presser founded the Locomotiv GT group in 1971.
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Omega performed frequently in Czechoslovakia and then in the Czech Republic. In October 2019, she played in Třinec and Pardubice. She has also repeatedly sold out Prague’s Lucerna.
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