The Plastic People of the Universe (or shortly PPU) is a rock band from Prague, Czechoslovakia (Today Czech Republic). In 60s and 70s was frontman bass player Milan "Mejla" Hlavsa (*1951-†2001) and current frontman is saxophonist Vratislav Brabenec (*1943). On his "debut" album "Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned", the group set to music poems by Egon Bondy. The band became famous when it was put in prison by the communist government.