[Music] Vangelis RIP

[portlock seagull]

Wonderful composer. So many of my favourite soundtracks. Played his Greatest Hits CD to death.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Sad stuff.

Long live the late night snooker highlights.

RIP

 

[Swansman]

Played his Greatest Hits CD to death.

You or him?

 

[Frutos]

https://youtu.be/8a-HfNE3EIo

 

[fly high]

https://youtu.be/8a-HfNE3EIo

Absolutely love this track, one of his best

 

[jakarta]

Albedo 0.39. One of the Albums which was the Soundtrack to my Teens.

Yes, I wasn't down with the Kids...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0GbxHcIJgM

 

[vegster]

https://youtu.be/8a-HfNE3EIo

Love that tune. It perfectly fits with what was such an uplifting film, Ian Charlson was magnificent as Eric Liddel and Nigel Havers as his Lordship marvellous too...

RIP Vangelis.

 

[marlowe]

Some great live concert footage from 1968 of him in Aphrodite's Child with Demis Roussos

https://youtu.be/uZRDjPXU94U

 

[Weststander]

RIP, one of my music heroes. Sumptuous electronic melodies, a pioneer.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

RIP Vangelis

 

[pasty]

Albedo 0.39. One of the Albums which was the Soundtrack to my Teens.

Yes, I wasn't down with the Kids...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0GbxHcIJgM

Ditto. Still love this track

 

[jakarta]

Ditto. Still love this track

One of those albums you just played from start to finish, then repeated it all day. A bit like the early Tangs and Kraftwerk, certainly my entry into electronica...

No idea how I found Vangelis back in the 1970's - presume it must have been via John Peel although it doesn't sound like his taste?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I posted this on track of the day only a few days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=321JxxzlGio

 

[The Albion Roar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyF_0BIW8HA

 

[The Albion Roar]

Then the pick of the bunch. Used on a car advert in the last couple of years or so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVExlaxaweo

 

[portslade seagull]

RIP, one of my music heroes. Sumptuous electronic melodies, a pioneer.

My favourite of his

 

[zefarelly]

Then the pick of the bunch. Used on a car advert in the last couple of years or so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVExlaxaweo

I first heard this about 25 years ago and was a little perpplexed initially, but they had something!

A friend of mine recently bought an old tatty customised Lambretta half in bits, all airbrushed artwork with Vangelis . . .done early 1980's . . . . Definitely worth restoring!

 

[The Clamp]

Ground breaking composer. Made the current and excellent Synthwave scene possible. Blade Runner remains my favourite synth film score.

Great man. Great career.

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

A genius, went through a phase in my teens loving tangerine dream,jmj, vangelis, klaus Schultz, kraftwerk. It wasn’t that ‘cool’ at the time, but you have to appreciate the pay he laid for multiple bands.

 

[The Clamp]

A genius, went through a phase in my teens loving tangerine dream,jmj, vangelis, klaus Schultz, kraftwerk. It wasn’t that ‘cool’ at the time, but you have to appreciate the pay he laid for multiple bands.

I saw Tangerine Dream live at Chalk a few weeks ago. Still superb and making some excellent new music.

Kraftwerk were also great at B. Centre a few years ago.