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TV Moroni was a Serbia
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n New Wave
New Wave music
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/punk rock
Punk rock
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 band from Belgrade
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, notable as the participant of the Artistička radna akcija
Artisticka radna akcija
Artistička radna akcija is a new wave and punk rock compilation album released in late 1981 by Jugoton in SFR Yugoslavia...

project in 1981.

History

The band consisted of Zoran Cerar (vocals), Aleksandar Aleksandrić (lead guitar), Aleksandar Đukić (rhythm guitar), Zoran Janković (bass) and Mićo Uzelac (drums). Other band members were Srđan Dragojević, and Goran Nikolić, but they did not record anything with the band.

TV Moroni's two songs, "Moja borba" ("My Struggle") and "Pada noć" ("The Night Is Falling"), were the closing tracks of the "Artistička radna akcija
Artisticka radna akcija
Artistička radna akcija is a new wave and punk rock compilation album released in late 1981 by Jugoton in SFR Yugoslavia...

" (Artistic Work Action) various artist compilation, featuring the second generation of the Belgrade New Wave and punk rock bands. The band also appeared on the first Ventilator Demo Top 10 show in February 1983 with the song "Tebi dajem sve" ("I Give Everything to You"), but it was never released. After the compilation release, the band disbanded.

After the band's disbandment, Aleksadar Đukić formed the band Nesalomivi in September 1986, and despite having their single "Ja imam ideju" ("I Have an Idea"), a song from the TV Moroni period written by Zoran Cerar and Aleksadar Đukić, released on the ZKP RTLJ
ZKP RTLJ
Založba kaset in plošč RTV Ljubljana or Založba kaset in plošč Radiotelevizije Ljubljana , was a major record label based in Ljubljana, Socialist Republic of Slovenia, during the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...

 compilation 101 otkucaj u ritmu srca vol. 1 and a significant airplay on the Yugoslav radio stations, record labels did not show much interest for the band and in 1989 they disbanded. In 2008, the band reunited and recorded the album Isti onaj dečak (That Same Boy), released by Dallas Records in 2010.

Srđan Dragojević became a famous movie director and screenplay writer. His greatest success was the 1992 movie Mi nismo anđeli and his other notable movies are Lepa sela, lepo gore
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
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, Dva sata kvalitetnog TV programa and Rane
The Wounds
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. In 1993, he appeared as the author of the Vampiri
Vampiri
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 song "Be-Be", which appeared on the Mi nismo anđeli soundtrack. Goran Nikolić played in several bands, including, Džambasovi and Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar
Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar
Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar (Serbian Cyrillic: Неочекивана Сила Која Се Изненада Појављује и Решава Ствар; trans...

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Discography

Title Released
"Moja borba" / "Pada noć"
Artisticka radna akcija
Artistička radna akcija is a new wave and punk rock compilation album released in late 1981 by Jugoton in SFR Yugoslavia...

1981

External links

  • TV Moroni at Youtube
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  • TV Moroni at Discogs
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  • TV Moroni at Last.fm
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