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Siluete (The Silhouettes) were formed in 1961 almost straight after they saw the film with Cliff Richard & The Shadows in local cinema. Under very strong influence of The Shadows sound, they also choose the similar name. Their first big gig was in the same year as support of one of the first rock'n'roll stars in ex Yugoslavia - Djordje Marjanovic. They played in front of many thousands of his fans. In 1963 they almost split up. Zoran Miscevic - legendary Yugoslavian 60s punker - vocal and bass guitar, reformed Siluete in 1964. One of the new members is Tomi Sovilj (see Tomi Sovilj i Njegove Siluete). During 1964 they had few great gigs but in the same year they split in two different bands - Siluete and Tomi Sovilj i Njegove Siluete (Tomi Sovilj and His Silhouettes). In 1965 they shocked all Yugoslavia with (very) long hairs. Next year they made few clips for national tv. Zoran's long, blonde died, hair is big scandal in whole land. Siluete are part of art happenings and performances of young painter Olja Ivanjicki in Zagreb and Belgrade. At the same time they are on every cover page and their popularity grows every day. People and fans chased Zoran on streets wanting to cut his long blonde hair. In period 1966-1968 Siluete get a reputation of scandal band - vandalism on their concerts, fighting with audience, breaking guitars and bottles on stage.... Zoran Miscevic is the first mega star - he gets hundreds of letters every day. They also tried to become popular outside of Yugoslavia - for a few months they were touring Austria and Germany but without big success. Only their scandal reputation gets bigger. They also spend 1968 and 1969 playing in different night clubs all over western Europe with ambitions for an international record contract. They wanted so hard to be famous outside of Yugoslavia, specially in the west, but without success. In 1969 they finally split up. Most of members came back to Yugoslavia. Zoran spent some time in Germany with an Italian band and he came back in 1973 almost forgotten by everybody. In 1975 he tried once more with Siluete. They made one 7" with some folk rock song but days of glory were over. Zoran died in 1995. Siluete's 60s EP's sound pretty tame. They were more live band but their records are great too. They played beat and rhythm and blues with great vocal, voxxy keyboard sound and here and there great fuzz guitar solo. It's pity that they couldn't catch their raw live sound in studio. Their tv clip(s) seem to be much rawer. They put only covers on their records and they didn't sell so much records as some other 60s bands. But because of their great punk attitude their glory was much bigger and they have a special place in ex YU rock'n'roll.
Siluete released 1 more 7" in 1976.
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