http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30984851
Demis Roussos has died
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240 - KVRAF
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Demis Roussos has died aged 68. His work with Vangelis in Aphrodite's Child was some of the best prog rock ever made. RIP.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30984851
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30984851
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- KVRAF
- 9577 posts since 16 Dec, 2002
He reminds me of Xmas in the 70s, my folks had no taste in music 
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- KVRAF
- 16977 posts since 23 Jun, 2010 from north of London ON
Sigh...he was not that old either...
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- KVRian
- 687 posts since 21 Aug, 2010 from Cagliari - (Sardinia)
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- 1104 posts since 14 Oct, 2006 from france
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240
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They didn't have 666 then?VariKusBrainZ wrote:He reminds me of Xmas in the 70s, my folks had no taste in music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FATe8MpEpO4
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- KVRAF
- 3303 posts since 6 Jul, 2012 from Sick-cily
RIP...
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- 51 posts since 28 Nov, 2011 from Sweden / Greece
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- KVRian
- 1100 posts since 9 Jan, 2015 from NY, NY
Oh that's sad. I heard his solo singles when I was growing up and didn't like them, but later in life I discovered Aphrodite's Child, which was an entirely different - great material.
Sweet child in time...
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- KVRAF
- 2822 posts since 14 Feb, 2001 from What do you care? :)
The old cliche says that these things come in three's. The other day I was posting in the Edgar Froese thread and here I am again in this thread.
I did not know Demis' work particularly well, but what I did know, I liked. I mainly knew his music via Aprhrodite's Child and via Vangelis (e.g. Bladerunner). I remember a number of years ago there was a hijacking and when the hijackers found out that Demis was on the flight they gave him a birthday party (it was his birthday) and they set him free. I remember thinking that was pretty cool!
RIP Demis. Another icon moves on.
I did not know Demis' work particularly well, but what I did know, I liked. I mainly knew his music via Aprhrodite's Child and via Vangelis (e.g. Bladerunner). I remember a number of years ago there was a hijacking and when the hijackers found out that Demis was on the flight they gave him a birthday party (it was his birthday) and they set him free. I remember thinking that was pretty cool!
RIP Demis. Another icon moves on.
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- KVRer
- 6 posts since 7 Feb, 2005 from Finland
...and it was few days ago when I listened Four Horsemen. Great song. RIP DR. (and EF)
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- KVRAF
- 11093 posts since 16 Mar, 2003 from Porto - Portugal
A great singer indeed. He and Vangelis were mates since their youth, and actually, after Aphrodite's Child dismissal, Vangelis earn a considerable amount of money writing songs for Demis Roussos, then a rising star, and that, coupled with the success of the music composed for the documentaries of Frédéric Rossif, gave him enough to found Nemo Studio in London.
Vangelis later helped Demis in the 90s, when he was already in the pinnacles of his fame, and Demis was somehow in decline.
It's curious that the voice of Jon Anderson, with whom Vangelis had a strong collaboration, has some similarities, in terms of register, with the voice of Demis Roussos.
For posterity, here is the song Rain and Tears, perhaps the biggest success of Aphrodite's Child (maybe you recognize also the keyboardist ):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM_T7W7k0mA
Vangelis later helped Demis in the 90s, when he was already in the pinnacles of his fame, and Demis was somehow in decline.
It's curious that the voice of Jon Anderson, with whom Vangelis had a strong collaboration, has some similarities, in terms of register, with the voice of Demis Roussos.
For posterity, here is the song Rain and Tears, perhaps the biggest success of Aphrodite's Child (maybe you recognize also the keyboardist
):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM_T7W7k0mA
Fernando (FMR)
