After their first important appearance in the festival in Opatija in 1979 when they received an award for best use of folklore motifs, their career swiftly set off towards stardom.įor their first songs from 19 the band played hard rock with jazz rock influences.
As kids they were very trendy and I thought that they would play something new and modern, so I told my brother they could be called ‘Generacija 5’ and that was that.” This was at a time when I was working with computers just when they were starting to take their place in industry, business, everything.” A news article in the then popular computer magazine “Informatika” gave Sanja Ilic his inspiration: “It said that fifth generation computers were emerging. He told us: “When my brother started the band, he had problems thinking of a name for it. It was precisely Sanja who christened it. In an interview with Sanja Ilic, a legendary composer and brother to Dragan Ilic, one of the band members, we found out how this band got its name. Popularizing the mixture of rock and hard rock to the public, Generacija 5 quickly gained an army of fan in a very short time. Officially founded in the middle of 1977 in Belgrade, this group opened a whole new world in music. No you’re not wrong – we’re talking about “Generacija 5”.
Beloved for decades and often in the top of music lists, favorite of young and less young.
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