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Vangelis Papathanassiou biography, Vangelis Papathanassiou discography
Hot topics: Blade Runner Trilogy, BBC radio interview, El Greco soundtrack album!.Very basic information about Vangelis and his music.Appearances on other releases
An incomplete list of releases by other artists with Vangelis' participation.An exclusive interview with Mythodea's orchestrator and conductor.About vocalist Demis Roussos, both collaborator with and friend of Vangelis.About Jon Anderson, the Yes singer with whom Vangelis released music "Jon and Vangelis".More information about other people with whom Vangelis has worked.Information about illegal releases of Vangelis' music.He composes and performs mainly instrumental
music and film scores.During his career he has flirted with many genres and
has proved to be very hard to categorize.None of those terms is spot on and his output is too varied to
catch in one word.He was born as "Evanghelos Odyssey Papathanassiou" on march 29th 1943 in a small town near
Volos, Greece.They scored many hits all over Europe.Nemo studio that he used to record many of his famous albums and
soundtracks.In 1987 he left London and subsequently recorded music in Athens ("Direct", "Voices"),
Rome ("The City") and Paris ("1492").What instrument does he play?Credits on albums include instruments as diverse as flutes, vibes, tablas, cembalo, clarinet, tubular bells,
timpanies, cymbals and gongs.In most cases the synthesizer forms the basis of his work.Besides releasing albums he records music whenever he likes.Have I perhaps ever heard his music?He's to sensitive for boxing.Neither for the music nor the boxer.The main theme for Hugh Hudson's period sports drama "Chariots of Fire"(1981) won Vangelis an Oscar (tm) and
both album and single ruled many of the pop music charts at the time.Ever since it managed to pop up in just about every documentary about the Olympics or athletics and
appeared in many commercials all over the world.Most notably in a newly recorded version by Vangelis himself
in Ridley Scott's "Citroen Xantia" commercial.Carl Sagan's famous television series "Cosmos" used a lot of Vangelis' music.The show's main theme was an excerpt from Heaven and Hell part 2.In the USA and Italy, commercials for "Gallo Wine" used the track "Hymne"
from the album "Opera Sauvage" (1979), but in a special version rearranged by Vangelis."Mercury Lynx" while Chanel used "The Little Fete" from the same album around the
same period for promotion of their "Chanel 5" perfume.Missing was used in a South African advertisement campaign.Blade Runner's music was used in the States for a Vicoria's Secret commercial (love theme) and in Japan for a Toyota commercial.He rarely gives interviews and
concentrates on making music.He has a brother named Nico, who also worked in the music business, but functioned mainly as producer.Italian pop albums for Polydor in Vangelis' Nemo studio in London in the late seventies.There's a couple of interesting things."The man and his music" by Michael Perkhofer and Stephen Bowline is well known as
the first Vangelis site ever, but it's now very outdated.The lyrics site by Henk Engelen contains a lot of
information on collaborations.You can find links to
all these sites and more, in the links section of "Elsewhere".Unknown Man" by author Mark Griffin.This book was released several years ago at a rather small scale, and was updated by Griffin for a second edition in 1997.For a while there was also Mark Griffin's international fan club called "ALBEDO", producing a fanzine that
was due to appear twice per year.Vangelis' management and because of the small number of
album releases."Vangelis" (nr45) by Luis Fernando Torre.There's a rather good discography as appendix.Latest Update: January 11, 2004
WEB site made by: Dennis Lodewijks (d.At this site you will find most of
the lyrics of the songs of Vangelis and of Vangelis collaborating with other
artists.Mombello, Alex Morse, Paulo Mouat,
Tony Novo, Lightnet, LaLa (Imre Olajos, Jr.Willem van Aalst, Antas,
Ugo Coppola, John van Houtert, Dennis Lodewijks, Robert Eichelsheim and Nantje Ouderdorp.Castellano, para todos aquellos internautas conocedores de esta lengua.
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