RIP Vangelis
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Topic: RIP Vangelis
Posted By: Meltdowner
Subject: RIP Vangelis
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 10:28
Another musical legend left us  Oscar-winning composer Vangelis Papathanassiou has passed away, according to an announcement by law office that represented him. The announcement said Papathanassiou, better known simply by his first name, Vangelis, died at hospital in France on Tuesday, where he was being treated for Covid-19. Papathanassiou was 79. His musical career spanned six decades, as a performer, producer and composer, with his most distinguished work being the soundtrack for the 1982 film “Chariots of Fire”. Other Hollywood projects included the iconic Blade Runner and 1492. Leaving Greece in the late 1960s for Paris he joined and performed with the progressive rock band Aphrodite’s Child, where he teamed up with another notable Greek artist, Demis Roussos. https://www.ot.gr/2022/05/19/english-edition/vangelis-papathanasiou-oscar-winning-composer-passes-away-at-the-age-of-79/" rel="nofollow - https://www.ot.gr/2022/05/19/english-edition/vangelis-papathanasiou-oscar-winning-composer-passes-away-at-the-age-of-79/
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 10:33
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Shocking and sad news. RIP
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 10:41
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Sad news. RIP and 666 forever. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 10:58
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Rest in Peace, M. Papathanassiou ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 11:11
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Damn ! Given my age and the age of the influential musicians in my past I fear I'm in the age of RIP . RIP Vangelis ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 11:14
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Don't know what it's worth, because I don't know this site but they claim it's a hoax:
Meaning that a rumour spread by some radios and internet media has been denied by a spokesperson for the musician... ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
https://fr.mediamass.net/people/vangelis/rumeurdeces.html rel=nofollow - Mediamass.net wrote:Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 11:18
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^ It's a coincidence, you can find the news as well on the website that is mentioned on his Facebook page, published today: http://elsew.com/data/latest.htm" rel="nofollow - http://elsew.com/data/latest.htm Just published on The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/19/vangelis-greek-composer-chariots-of-fire-blade-runner-dies" rel="nofollow - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/19/vangelis-greek-composer-chariots-of-fire-blade-runner-dies
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Posted By: Archisorcerus
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 11:19
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At loss for words... RIP. |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 11:33
| very sad news, ειλικρινή συλλυπητήρια |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 11:36
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This is a huge, huge loss. Vangelis = one of my favorite musical entities, period. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: yogev
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 13:03
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Sad news, My Introduction with him wasn't long ago, but still, in this short period of time his music helped me a lot. It's time to dive deeper into his huge discography. Rest In Peace.
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Posted By: tupan
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 13:09
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Great Vangelis... RIP ------------- "Prog is Not Dead and never has been." (Will Sergeant, from Echo And The Bunnymen) |
Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 13:09
Also just reported by the BBC (I just heard on radio before seeing this thread). ------------- Z |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 13:43
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Chariots of Fire was only the tip of the iceberg for this great prog keyboardist. He will be sorely missed. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 13:51
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This is really sad news. Really sad news. I have loved his music for so many years, and his collaboration with Jon was about as life affirming as it comes. RIP. Without doubt, a heavenly choir has been enhanced tonight. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 13:52
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RIP. I discovered his music through Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 14:02
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First Schulze now Vangelis... I just bought "1492: Conquest of Paradise" recently. I used to have it on a cassette as a kid. And now he dies... ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 14:06
| I still remember all of the youths teaching each other how to play Chariots of Fire on the piano. Very nostalgic. Ended up buying a number of Vangelis albums and soundtracks over the years searching for interesting keyboard sounds and pieces. RIP Vangelis. |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 14:12
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More very sad news.. his sound, compositional style and all round instrumental dexterity made him a truly unique artist. RIP. ------------- |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 14:18
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The Grim Reaper named COVID-19 claims another soul. Please ensure that you have as many vaccinations and booster shots as you are entitled to. ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 14:23
I wasn’t aware it was COVID, Charles. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 15:18
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Really sad news. RIP |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 15:36
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Genius original player--RIP
F-Covid.
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Posted By: mwood
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 16:07
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Such a shame. I'll be spinning Heaven and Hell, Blade Runner, and a few others tomorrow in memory. And so soon after Klaus Schulze. RIP to another one of the greats. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 22:21
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Vangelis has long been my favorite composer and recording artist. Even though my collection of his albums is vast, I still do not have everything he released since many are difficult to find in the U.S. His music has moved in ways no other composer or artist has done. Very saddened at this. My listening tribute begins tonight with Nocturne: The Piano Album. Although with only an average rating on this site, I find the music full of depth and emotion. Beautifully played, with lots of subtlety and feeling. Piano is enhanced by the kind of lush backgrounds we expect from this great musician. My tribute will not last a single night. Like many, I first heard his music on Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Interestingly, I was at a Kansas concert 1979 or '80, and they played this really weird music between bands, music I found more memorable than that performed that night (I love Kansas but not the album they were touring for). Shortly, I found out the music was from Heaven and Hell, one of my very favorites. I would like Pinta, Niña, Santa María (Into Eternity) from 1492: Conquest of Paradise played at my funeral, before the wake, of course. All 13 + minutes of it. Maybe with a slide show. That album is also one of my very favorites. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 19 2022 at 23:24
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Wow. Such another massive loss to the electronic music world. Such a shame it was covid. A very avoidable death. Time to spin 666, Albedo .39, and of course the blade runner soundtrack. RIP ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 00:05
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i've heard the new from the radio yesterday evening. I'm still shocked. Then they played Four Horsemen and Memories of Green. I thought he was immortal. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 00:09
Done the first. Albedo will come after Heaven And Hell followed by China.For Blade Runner I'll need more time as I would spin the 25th anniversary boxset
------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 03:39
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His LP called "Earth" issued by Vertigo in 1973 under Vangelis O' Papathanassiou is imho* his most personnal and greek influenced opus, a must have. * i don't know all the recordings of his huge discography |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 07:52
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Hi, I'm not sad. I know that we all have to go sooner or later, but there are times when one person has left more memories in your heart than you can even count, or imagine. And Vangelis, left many of these for me to remember until the day it doesn't matter anymore. But worst of all ... we don't get to hear where the teaspoons are anymore ... we're relegated to having to find them on our own, as before. (True story ... it was in a promo of for H&H given to FM stations). His talks about his music, and how he refused to do "commercial music" (I'm not the only one that ever has said it!!! My words came from Vangelis, Schulze and Froese), are very inspiring, but something that most DAW "composers" will never understand, or appreciate. RIP ... and I know that I will miss a lot of your music, that has not been heard yet, but at least, you left us with some far out memories! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 08:39
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Sad news. Reading that Vangelis died from covid makes me even sadder. I have a lot to thank him for. I had always heard about Vangelis but the first album I bought by him was L'Apocalypse Des Animaux at random. I was poor, it was cheap and there was just something about the cover art that I found attractive. It was really the first album of the sort that I can remember owning. Gentle, strangely moving and very soothing. He helped open my ears to music that wasn't some kind of rock.
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 11:02
This link reports the cause as heart failure. https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1100133193/vangelis-dead" rel="nofollow - Vangelis, composer of Chariots of Fire music, dead at 79 : NPR ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 11:17
| RIP! He will be missed, but he leaves a rich legacy! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 14:11
Good call on Heaven & Hell. Checking my collection, I also have Spiral and Beaubourg, so ill be playing those as well. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: UnderGround
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 14:12
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One of the greatest pioneer of electronic music! 666 is one of my beloved albums! Also Socrates' album "Phos" (Aphrodite's Child and Socrates are the best Greek rock bands of all time) was produced by Vangelis (he was played keyboards and percussion on the album). Check the song "Starvation", it has one of the finest keyboard riffs of all time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5fZIVk1tV8" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5fZIVk1tV8 Καλό παράδεισο Βαγγέλη, καλό φως Χριστού! R.I.P. Vangelis. |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 16:54
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Clark Gable, Fairbanks , Maureen O'Sullivan are waiting for him in heaven "to Gods early dawning light And I was privileged to be as I am to this day To be with you. To be with you" ....flip, flip, flip....... RIP  ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Battlestations
Date Posted: May 20 2022 at 17:50
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Such an immense loss for music, not only the electronic music scene. Quite shocking news, there was indeed the sense that this musical God was immortal. Personal fave: Soil Festivities.
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 21 2022 at 01:58
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Another great one gone. 2022 is becoming a sad year for electronic music. RIP Vangelis. ------------- 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 22 2022 at 02:57
| One of my favourite musicians and pretty much turned me on to electronic music. RIP |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 22 2022 at 11:15
There are many sources on the web reporting it was Covid. Maybe it caused the heart failure. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 22 2022 at 11:16
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From Al-Jazeera Vangelis, the Oscar-winning composer of the music for Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner, and a pioneer of electronic music, has died. He was 79. According to several media outlets in the musician's native Greece, Vangelis died of coronavirus in France, where he lived part-time. He also had homes in London and Athens. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: May 22 2022 at 11:18
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One thing that I find sad, is that the media only mention his two most famous soundtracks. He has done much more than Chariots Of Fire, that's not even close to be his best. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: yogev
Date Posted: May 22 2022 at 13:03
| Every article I see about his death starts with "Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner composer...". He had done so much more, regardless to his soundtracks works. I'm sure Vangelis didn't like being automatically attached to his most famous works, or any other artist. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 22 2022 at 13:08
I think in the mainstream, he's only known for his famous movie soundtracks. I'm not surprised about the sentence above (" "Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner composer...").
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: May 22 2022 at 18:52
| This is a true tragedy. One of the prodigies of our times. May he Rest In Peace. |
Posted By: WJA-K
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 04:51
| RIP Vangelis. Time to start listening to the great pieces of music he created. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 07:28
Hi, I imagine that he will be remembered far more and longer for his soundtracks than he will for the rest of it all, although I still think that he will be thought of as a major musician/composer of our time. In the films, he is much better known and represented ... and his fame stretched a lot more, due to the imagery in the films. The music itself, while very cinematic in its own way, is more difficult for a lot of rock minded folks that wanted a more mechanical and commercial sound, than what Vangelis had to offer. In the H&H promo for the many FM stations that got it, he was not happy with commercial music and he made it very clear ... he did not do commercial music, which may account for his taking such a long time between pieces, although I can not imagine a record company saying no to something he did, which is possible and we will hear it now, I think. What we don't know, is who is in charge of things now ... for example, we know that Bianca was in charge of Egdar's/TD's, to the chagrin of Jerome who left the family! Likewise, what will happen to Klaus Schulze, although I think that more of his material has been released than almost anyone out there possible. But it is a really tough loss ... he was very special as a person, and I wish that documentary about him had been finished and released, though it will likely show up now to get more money off it, and grab the headlines off the events. Reminds me of a story about Salvador Dali ... a guy in LA had several signed originals and copies (all registered!) ... and he was asked why they were not on display to be sold? "I'm waiting for him to die. The value of all these pieces will double and triple then!" RIP Vangelis ... and don't forget those t-spoons ... I got mine right here! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: May 23 2022 at 10:30
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