Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan

Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan (MFÖ)
2012 concert in Ankara
Background information
Origin	Turkey
Genres	Rock, pop rock
Years active	1971–present
Labels	Balet Plak, MMY, Raks Müzik, DMC
Members	Mazhar Alanson Fuat Güner Özkan Uğur

Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan (MFÖ) is a Turkish pop and rock band consisting of Mazhar Alanson, Fuat Güner and Özkan Uğur. While many of their songs poke fun at common Turkish types ("Ali Desidero", "Piskopatım") or satirise prejudice and corruption ("Deli Deli", "Rüşvet"), others are more spiritual in nature, showing their interest in Sufism ("Sufi", "Ateş-i Aşka").

In 1966, Mazhar Alanson and Fuat Güner were met, and started to work together. In 1971, they produced an album called "Türküz Türkü çağırırız". Later in the same year, Özkan Uğur joined the band and MFÖ officially established.

The trio represented Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest twice; in 1985 in Gothenburg, Sweden they came 14th with Didai Didai Dai, and in 1988 in Dublin, Ireland, performing the song Sufi to finish in 15th place.

The group's founding story is that, in 1965 Mazhar Alanson saw The Beatles record in Fuat Güner 's hand and offered him to listen record together. This is how this two members met. Then, they started to play on a Turkish group called Kaygısızlar which include a well known Turkish musicians like Ali Serdar , Semih Oksay and Fikret Kızılok . After that, they started to work with Barış Manço . By this time, the third member of the group Özkan Uğur was working with the other musicians like Erkin Koray , Ersen ve Dadaşlar and a group Kurtalan Ekspres.

After Kaygısızlar, Mazhar Alanson and Fuat Güner recorded the only album of Mazhar-Fuat which is called . However the album had not achieved a commercial success. After that, they formed the band İpucu Beşlisi Özkan Uğur, Ayhan Sicimoğlu and Galip Boransu. The band came apart and after some time playing music separately, Mazhar, Fuat and Özkan got together again and started accompanying famous Turkish singers such as Sezen Aksu, Ajda Pekkan and Seyyal Taner on stage.