Karel Gott, Helena
Vondrackova, Karel Stedry and Pavel Vetrovec
at Magnetic Island Beachside Palms Holiday Units
Throughout his forty-year career,
Karel Gott performed at innumerable concerts in all the countries of Europe
(with the exception of Albania and Scandinavia), the USA, Canada, China,
Australia and Japan. He appeared in hundreds of television shows at home and
abroad (the Gilbert Bécaud Show, Nashville - Country Music Festival,
Europarty, the Rudi Carell Show, Ein Kessel Buntes, the James Last Show),
released hundreds of regular albums and more than one hundred compilation
albums (his total record sales are estimated at 27 million copies) both at
home and abroad (he co-operates with record labels in England, Belgium,
Bulgaria, France, Holland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Austria, the former Soviet
Union, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Stated of America), and acquired a
number of awards (aside from the mentioned 22 Golden Nightingales and 4
Czech Nightingales, he also acquired 5 Golden Jingle Bells and 10 Tętę
awards as the most popular singer, 5 Tętę awards as the personality of the
year, a Polydor Golden Needle, 2 Golden Keys at the Intervize Festival, a
Golden and Bronze Lyre in Bratislava, a Golden and Bronze Lion from Radio
Luxembourg, 2 Golden Tuners at the Tag des deutschen Schlagers Festival, a
Golden Harp in Stuttgart, 4 Trophées nationales at the MIDEM festival in
Cannes, a Cherry Blossom award at the festival in Tokyo, a Golden Needle
from Pragokoncert, and a number of Gold Records and Platinum Records as the
most sold exponent from the Supraphon, Polydor and PolyGram record labels).
In European countries and around the world, Karel Gott is an enduring
phenomenon, and even today fully deserves to be recorded in the Guinness
Book of World Records
