Jiri Cerny, a leading Czech music critic and a voice of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, dies at 87 – Winnipeg Free Press
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PRAGUE (AP) — Jiri Cerny, a legendary Czech music critic who introduced Western music to generations of listeners behind the Iron Curtain and became one of the voices of the 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution, has died. He was 87.
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