Ivan Král

Guitarist and songwriter Ivan Král has played alongside some of rock's most influential artists, including Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, and John Cale, among others, in a career that spanned five decades. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Král originally intended to be a filmmaker before discovering rock & roll thanks to the Rolling Stones. The mid- to late '60s saw Král form a Czech band, Saze, but before the group could take off, he was exiled from Czechoslovakia, due to comments his father made about the 1968 Russian Invasion of Czechoslovakia. This couldn't have happened at a worse...