Georges Fleury (*1945 in Basel, Switzerland) worked for the largest Swiss music chain (Musikhaus Hug) from 1968 to 1972 and managed the Hammond-Engros business there, but also appeared as a musician, for example in a jazz trio or in the jazz rock band "Caleidoscope". From 1974 he also worked more closely with the manufacturer Yamaha, for whom he was organist, demonstrator and music lecturer. Among the instruments he presented was the legendary Yamaha Electone GX1 Furore that you can see in this video. The GX1 was the world's first organ with a built-in polyphonic synthesizer. Its price was about US 56,000 ! At the end Georges plays his own composition "Road to Happyland".
The Yamaha GX-1 was also played by Keith Emerson from Emerson, Lake and Palmer in their legendary music video "Fanfare for the Common Man".
Spotlight was a music show for the youth, which was aired between 1968 and 1978 by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). It was the counterpart to the shows "Beat Club" or "Musikladen" in Germany.
4 окт 2024