Niebiesko-Czarni (Blue-Blacks) were one of the most popular Polish big-beat and rock groups of the 1960s and early 1970s. The band was founded by Franciszek Walicki.
Czesław Niemen played in the band for several years.
Throughout their 14 years of history (1962-1976) the Niebiesko-Czarni released 8 longplay discs and 24 singles/fours (over 3.5 million discs) and had over 3000 concerts.
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Czarni Lwów was one of the first Polish professional sports clubs with the well developed football section as well as ice hockey among the several other sports. The football club was started in the late 19th century in Lwów as a school football section Sława Lwów. In 1903 the name was changed and the club became professional.
Czarni Słupsk, more commonly known as Grupa Sierleccy Czarni Słupsk because of sponsorship reasons, is a Polish basketball team, based in Słupsk, playing in Polish Basketball League (PLK). The home arena of the club was Hala Gryfia.
Polish rock refers to rock music from Poland.
WKS Czarni Radom, officially known for sponsorship reasons as Cerrad Enea Czarni Radom, is a professional men's volleyball team based in Radom in central Poland. Founded in 1921 as a football club, the club had many sections in the past, however since 1997 only the volleyball section has remained.
Czerwone Gitary is one of the most popular rock bands in the history of Polish popular music. The band formed in 1965 and achieved its greatest success from 1965 to 1970. Often considered the Polish equivalent of the Beatles, many of their hits are now classics in Poland. The group toured extensively outside Poland but had mostly disappeared from the Polish scene by the 1980s. The band reformed in the 1990s.
Czerwono-Czarni was one of the most popular rock bands in the history of Polish popular music, and one of the pioneers of rock and beat music in Poland. Czerwono-Czarni was the first Polish rock band to last long enough to cut a record. It formed in 1960, and lasted until 1976.
Franciszek Walicki was a Polish journalist. He was considered the father of Polish beat and rock music, calling them big-beat as rock and roll was unacceptable name for the authorities of the Polish People's Republic at the time.
Gwiazdy mocnego uderzenia: Czesław Niemen is a compilation of Czesław Niemen's first singles recorded with bands Niebiesko-Czarni, Bossa Nova Combo and band of Studio Rytm.
Stan Borys or Stanisław Guzek is a Polish singer-songwriter, actor, director and poet.
Czarni Żagań is a Polish association football club based in Żagań, Lower Silesia.
VIA is an abbreviation for Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble. It is the general name used for pop and rock bands that were formally recognized by the Soviet government from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Czarni Sosnowiec, commonly referred to as Czarni Sosnowiec, is a football club from Sosnowiec, Poland. The club was founded in 1924, and its home ground is the Jan Ciszewski's Stadium. It has a women's and a men's section.
Polskie Nagrania "Muza" is a Polish record label based in Warsaw. It has produced records in many genres including pop, rock, jazz, folklore, classical, children. Until its purchase by Warner Music Poland in 2015, for €1.9 million, the label was owned by the Polish government.
Karin Stanek was a Polish rock and roll and beat music singer, a member of the band Czerwono-Czarni. She has been known for her charismatic performances and expressive onstage persona, and referred to as one of the symbols of Polish beat music. In the 1960s, she has achieved widespread popularity in Poland with hits like "Malowana lala", "Jimmy Joe", "Chłopiec z gitarą", "Wala twist" and "Jedziemy autostopem". In the 1970s, Stanek emigrated to Germany, where she went on to release German- and English-language material. In the 1990s, she resumed performing in Poland to much success, although remained based in Germany up until her death from pneumonia in 2011. Polish music magazine Machina has placed her on their list of "50 best Polish female singers".
Helena Majdaniec was a Polish big beat singer and film actor, "the queen of Polish Twist". Helena Majdaniec cooperated with Niebiesko-Czarni, Czerwono-Czarni, Karin Stanek, Olivia Newton-John, Cliff Richard and Demis Roussos. She performed mainly in Szczecin and Paris.
Surfbeat Behind the Iron Curtain, Volume 1 is a compilation album featuring underground garage and surf rock musical artists east of the Iron Curtain that were recorded between 1963 and 1966. It is the first installment of the Planetary Pebbles series, which was a sub-series to the Pebbles series, and was released on AIP Records, on August 12, 1997.
Jerzy Kossela was a Polish guitarist, vocalist and founding member of the bands Electron, Niebiesko-Czarni, Pięciolinie and Czerwone Gitary.
Big-beat is a term that was used in Eastern Bloc countries in the 1960s to cover rock and roll and related genres, as the original name was not approved by authorities in those nations.
Kinga Kozak is a Polish professional footballer who plays for Glasgow City. Before moving to Scotland in 2022 she previously played for Polish club Czarni Sosnowiec. She made her debut for Poland in October 2020 at the age of 18.
Adrianna Rusowicz, known professionally as Ada Rusowicz, was a Polish singer, the vocalist of the band Niebiesko-Czarni.
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