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    Omega - 200 Years After The Last War (1974)
    Omega:
    Formed in Budapest, Hungary, in September 1962 by the winds player Laszlo Benko on organ and Janos Kobor as a singer and rhythm guitarist, they initially performed covers of British and American rock songs, frequently changing the lineup of members.
    In 1967 Tamas Mihaly came on bass, Gabor Presser joined on keyboards and began writing original music for the band (in 1968 Gyorgy Molnar became a lead guitarist), contributing to the release of three LPs before leaving the band with Jozsef Laux, a drummer from 1962, to form Locomotiv GT in spring 1971.
    These first albums were heavily influenced by the music of The Beatles and psychedelic rock, but they also looked forward to the band's future more hard rock, then progressive and space-rock styles. After Presser and Laux's departure, the band found a new drummer (Ferenc Debreceni (later as Debreczeni) came from group Neoton) and appointed Benko as the main keyboardsman, in August 1971 creating the current lineup, which has remained the same for over 30 years:
    Janos Kobor ("Mecky"), lead vocals
    Gyorgy Molnar ("Elefant"), guitars
    Laszlo Benko ("Laci"), keyboards, vocals
    Tamas Mihaly ("Misi"), bass, vocals
    Ferenc Debreceni ("Ciki"), drums
    This lineup of Omega released ten more albums from 1972 to 1987.
    Many of these were released both in Hungarian and in English, in the hopes of generating wider interest in their music. However, the contents of the English albums often differed from their Hungarian counterparts, sometimes assembling tracks from several different albums and nearly always changing the song order.
    Following a few years of inactivity, the band reunited in 1994, with former member Gabor Presser joining them at concerts and contributing several tracks to 1995's Trans And Dance.
    Omega has achieved great international success through releases in multiple languages, and tours in England and Germany in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s.
    Their 1969 song "Gyongyhaju lany" became an international hit, and was later covered by Griva on their 1987 self-titled album, with the title "Devojka biserne kose", and by Scorpions on a 1995 live release, with new lyrics and the title "White Dove" (the Hungarian title officially was translated as "Pearls In Her Hair").
    Omega’s 16th. Hungarian studio release is 2006’s Egi jel: Omega ("Divine Sign: Omega"), and their latest English release is 1996’s Transcendent. In spring and summer of 2006, they performed their "EurOmega 2006" tour, including concerts in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Berlin and Basel.
    As the first part of a trilogy the band released in autumn 2010 Omega Rhapsody.
    Studio albums
    Hungarian language albums
    Trombitas Fredi es a rettenetes emberek (1968), due to marketing schemes the band's name was changed to Omega Red Star on the album cover
    10 000 lepes (1969)
    Ejszakai orszagut (1970)
    200 evvel az utolso haboru utan (recorded in 1972, but not released until 1998 due to government censorship; Elo Omega, a fake "live" recording of the original studio material was released instead)
    Omega 5 (1973) later remixed, remastered and released as Szvit
    Omega 6: Nem tudom a neved (1975); later remixed, remastered and released as Tuzvihar - Stormy Fire
    Omega 7: Idorablo (1977);
    Omega 8: Csillagok utjan (1978); later remixed, remastered and with its English-language version released as Csillagok utjan - Skyrover
    Gammapolis (1979); later remixed, remastered and with its English-language version released as Gammapolisz - Gammapolis
    Omega X: Az arc (1981)
    Omega XI (1982)
    Omega 12: A fold arnyekos oldalan (1986)
    Omega XIII: Babylon (1987)
    Trans And Dance (1995); later remixed, remastered and released as Transcendent - Hungarian version
    Omega XV: Egy eletre szol (1998)
    Omega XVI: Egi jel: Omega (2006)
    Omega Rhapsody (2010)
    English language albums
    Omega Red Star From Hungary (1968) extremely rare vinyl recording, since October 2007 available on CD. Vocals by Mihaly Tamas
    Omega (1973)
    200 Years After The Last War (1974)
    Omega III (1974)
    The Hall Of Floaters In The Sky (1975)
    Time Robber (1976)
    Skyrover (1978)
    Gammapolis (1979)
    Working (1981)
    Transcendent (1996)
    Also, one German studio album was released:
    Das Deutsche Album (1973)

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