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    Posted: December 06 2021 at 10:03
Janos Kobor, the lead singer of Omega, the legendary prog rock band form Hungary has died. He was 78.
He founded Omega in 1962 and has been active with the band ever since.
Within a year keyboardist Laszlo Benko, bass player Tamas Mihaly and now Janos Kobor left us.
Unfortunately, this is the end of this fantastic band who gave us Girl With Pearls In Her Hair and other classics.
Rest In Peace Janos.Cry
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Irreparable loss. Cry Kind of a personal tragedy to me.

National hero in Hungary, the voice of Hungarian rock, belowed rock frontman of rock fans in many countries, nice and friendly person if you were lucky to have a chat with him. Unforgettable for several generations.
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Ive dug Omega for many, many years and have all their late 60's to late 70's lps including many Hungarian pressing, hard to get in the UK so this is more very sad news and i will have an evening dedicated to my favourite lps in memory and celebration of Janos, Laszlo and Tamas and the great music they left us. RIP.

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Terrible news. A tragic loss. Omega was so good.
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RIP
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very sad news what happened to Omega.
RIP Broken Heart
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Only learned of this a few days ago--a sad loss.

I have such a fond memory of being in Budapest, going into a great record store, and asking the clerk for any recommendations in Hungarian prog. Came out with a healthy stack.

Omega certainly stand out as one of the icons of central European psych and prog. A treasure.
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