"It was common at the time that when someone published an unfavourable review, then it wasn't the singer, but one of his associates who had connections that would phone his friends at the Central Committee."
Jan Rejžek was born on the 21st of June 1954 in České Budějovice. He went to primary school in České Velenice and to grammar school in Třeboň. In 1977 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Charles University in Prague, and started working freelance, publishing articles in Gramorevue, Melodie, Scéna, Mladý svět and Mladá fronta. In 1980 he began jockeying disco concerts, in 1990 he was employed for two years in the Office of the President of the Republic, after that he worked as a journalist in the Czechoslovak (later Czech) Television and as the spokesman of ODA (the Civic Democratic Alliance). Since 1995 he is in cooperation with Czech Radio (Radio Free Europe, CzR 6 - The Critical Club of Jan Rejžek, the Kaleidoscope programme). He works for Czech Television as a commentator during the Grammy Awards and Eurosong broadcasts, he headed the Executioner Room (Katovna) programme, he publishes feuilletons in Lidové noviny, obituaries in Týden and Filmový přehled etc. He published a book of feuilletons and poetry through XYZ, he translates books about music and prepares music articles for publishing.
