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Czerwone Gitary (The Red Guitars) is one of the most popular rock bands in the history of Polish popular music. The band formed in 1965 and achieved its greatest success from 1965 to 1970. Often considered the Polish equivalent of the Beatles, many of their hits are now classics in Poland. The group toured extensively outside Poland (in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, USA, Germany and Soviet Union) but had mostly disappeared from the Polish scene by the 1980s. The band reformed in the 1990s. Jerzy Kossela (guitar, vocals, founder, leader, left in 1967, returned in 1991, left again in 1993 and returned again in 1999, stopped touring in 2015 due to health problems and died in 2017) Henryk Zomerski (bass, keyabords ('90 & '00 only), founder, left the band soon after it was founded, in late 1965; in the band since 1999 till his death in 2011) Bernard Dornowski (guitar, vocals, bass, one of the original members, left in 1999) Jerzy Skrzypczyk (drums, vocals, percussion, one of the original members, still in the band as of 2016) Krzysztof Klenczon (lead guitar, vocals, harmonica,one of the original members; left in 1970) Seweryn Krajewski (bass, vocals, guitar, piano, violin, keyboards, replaced Zomerski in December 1965; left in 1997) Dominik Kuta (guitar, flute, vocals, briefly in 1970) Ryszard Kaczmarek (bass, 1971–1975) Jan Pospieszalski (bass, 1976–1980) Wojciech Hoffman (guitar, 1997–2000) Arkadiusz Malinowski (guitar, bass, 1999–2002) Dariusz Olszewski (guitar, vocals, 2000–2004, rejoined in 2010, still in the band as of 2016) Mieczysław Wądołowski (guitar, vocals, joined 1997, still in the band as of 2016) Marek Kisieliński (guitar, keyboards, joined 2003, left in 2013) Arkadiusz Wiśniewski (bass, guitar, vocals, joined in 2003, still in the band as of 2016) Artur Chyb (guitar, joined in 2013, left in 2014) Marcin Niewęgłowski (guitar, vocals, 2014-2016) Marek Jabłoński (guitar, joined in 2016) Artur Żurek (percussion, additional drums, joined in 2016)