Released album “La Petite Fille de la mer”.
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Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, mainly known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek composer, arranger, performer and record producer. He released material of wide musical genres such as electronic music, progressive rock, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He is primarily known for his film scores, composing the Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as composin…
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culture · Greek composer and musician (1943–2022) · film score composer · keyboardist · record producer · composer · painter · musician · author · also Vangelis, Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, Vangelis O. Papathanassiou
Born 29 March 1943 · Died 17 May 2022 · Q153172
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2026· 11 entries
Published video “Vangelis: Inside our perspectives”.
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Published video “Vangelis: Nocturnal Promenade”.
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Published video “Vangelis: Love Theme (From "Blade Runner")”.
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Published video “Vangelis: Early Years”.
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Published video “Vangelis: To a Friend”.
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Published video “La petite fille de la mer (Remastered)”.
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Published video “Vangelis: Hera / Juno Queen of the Gods”.
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Published video “Vangelis: Longing”.
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Published video “Vangelis: Sweet Nostalgia”.
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Published video “Rosetta”.
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2025· 1 entry
Released album “Classic Soundtracks”.
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2022· 8 entries
Hindustan Times: Vangelis, award-winning composer of Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire scores, dies at 79
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Yahoo: Vangelis, Oscar-Winning Composer of 'Chariots of Fire' and 'Blade Runner', Dead at 79
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Yahoo Finance: ‘Chariots of Fire’ Composer Vangelis Dies at 79
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The Globe and Mail: Vangelis, Greek composer of Chariots of Fire score, dies at 79
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Yahoo: Vangelis, the Greek ‘Chariots of Fire’ composer, dies at 79
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Pitchfork: Vangelis, Oscar-Winning Composer, Dies at 79
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IndieWire: Vangelis Dead at 79: Oscar-Winning Greek Composer Helped Shape the Sound of the 1980s
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Died 2022-05-17.
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2021· 4 entries
Published video “Vangelis - Vangelis: Juno opening its solar arrays”.
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Published video “Vangelis, Angela Gheorghiu - Vangelis: Jupiter fly-over - Juno’s Perijove 12”.
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Released album “Juno to Jupiter”.
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Published video “Vangelis - Vangelis: In the magic of Cosmos (Info)”.
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (2020).
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “Nocturne: The Piano Album”.
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2018· 8 entries
Published video “Vangelis - Nucleogenesis, Pt. 1 (Audio)”.
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Published video “Vangelis - Message (Audio)”.
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Published video “Vangelis - Pulstar (Audio)”.
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Published video “Vangelis - Dervish D. (Audio)”.
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Published video “Vangelis - Spiral (Audio)”.
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Published video “Vangelis - Dial Out (Audio)”.
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Published video “Vangelis - To the Unknown Man (Audio)”.
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Vangelis composed an original score for Stephen Hawking's memorial
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2017).
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2016· 2 entries
Released album “Rosetta”.
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Released album “Delectus: The Polydor & Vertigo Recordings, 1973–1985”.
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Amore”.
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Stream Of Thought”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Light and Shadow: The Best of Vangelis”.
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “Chariots of Fire: The Play”.
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Vangelis re-tooled and added new pieces to his iconic Chariots of Fire soundtrack, for use in the same-titled stage adaptation
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Original Album Classics”.
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “The Bounty”.
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2009· 1 entry
Released ep “Who Killed The Dragon? (The BYG Sessions)”.
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2008· 4 entries
Released album “Świadectwo: Muzyka Filmowa”.
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Released album “The City / Voices”.
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The board of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens voted to award Vangelis an honorary doctoral degree, making him a professor emeritus at their Faculty of Primary Education
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Was finally released in its original cut in 2025
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2007· 3 entries
Released album “El Greco: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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Released album “Beautiful Voices 013 (Vangelis Special Edition)”.
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When a box set of the score was released to commemorate the film's 25th anniversary, containing the 1994 album, some previously unreleased music cues, and new original Vangelis material inspired by Blade Runner
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Reflections: Music in the key of Blade Runner”.
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Released album “Sex Power / Poem Symphonique”.
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2005· 3 entries
Was in his third long-term relationship and said: "I couldn't take care of a child in the way I think it should be taken care of
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Stated that he was "never interested" in the "decadent lifestyle" of his band days, choosing not to use alcohol or other drugs
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Released album “Excerpts From the Catalogue”.
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2004· 4 entries
Released album “The Dragon / Hypothesis”.
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Released album “Alexander: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
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Released album “Socrates Drank the Conium + Phos”.
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Vangelis released the score for Oliver Stone's Alexander, continuing his involvement with projects related to Greece
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Odyssey: The Definitive Collection”.
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Released album “The Best of Vangelis: Original Hits”.
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “The Best of Vangelis”.
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Released album “Francesco”.
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Vangelis created the official Anthem for the 2002 FIFA World Cup
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “Mythodea: Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey”.
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2001).
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Composed for a third play which starred Papas, and for
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Vangelis performed live, and subsequently released, the choral symphony Mythodea, which was used by NASA as the theme for the Mars Odyssey mission
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2000· 4 entries
Released album “Chariots Of Fire (Extended)”.
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Released album “Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus”.
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Released album “Vangelis”.
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Released album “L'Arbre De Vie”.
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1999· 3 entries
Released album “Reprise 1990-1999”.
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Released album “De Nuremberg A Nuremberg”.
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Released album “Sauvage Et Beau”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Platinum”.
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1996· 7 entries
Released album “Oceanic”.
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Released album “gift...”.
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Released album “Portraits: So Long Ago, So Clear”.
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And 1997, Vangelis received awards at the World Music Awards
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Released album “The Best of Instrumental Works”.
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Released album “Cavafy”.
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Released album “Memoires, Volume 1: "Athens"”.
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1995· 6 entries
Released album “Voices”.
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Released album “Themes 2”.
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Released album “Space Themes”.
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Released album “Albedo 0.39 / Heaven and Hell”.
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Vangelis had a minor planet named after him (6354 Vangelis) by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; the name was proposed by the MPC's co-director
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Released album “El Greco”.
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1994· 3 entries
Released album “Best In Space”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “~華麗なる幻想美の世界~Vol.III 《天》”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “Blade Runner”.
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Received the music award Apollo by Friends of the Athens National Opera Society
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1992· 5 entries
Released album “1492: Conquest of Paradise: Music From the Original Soundtrack”.
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Awarded Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1992).
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And promoted him to Commander in 2017, as well as Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour in 2001
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Paramount Pictures released the film 1492: Conquest of Paradise, also directed by Ridley Scott, as a 500th anniversary commemoration of Christopher Columbus' voyage to the New World
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Vangelis wrote the music for a restaging of the Euripides play Medea, that featured Irene Papas
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “The City”.
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1989· 4 entries
Released album “Themes”.
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Released album “Vangelis / Kraftwerk”.
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And reflected a day of bustling city life, from dawn until dusk; Voices (1995) featured sensual songs filled with nocturnal orchestrations; Oceanic (1996) thematically explored the mystery of underwater worlds and sea sa
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Vangelis received the Max Steiner Award
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “Direct”.
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Vangelis closed Nemo Studio and embarked on the more nomadic lifestyle he would continue for the rest of his life, moving between homes and hotels in different countries according to whim and circumstance
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1986· 3 entries
(I have no fear and Secrets), also translated in Italian as Tra due sogni
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Vangelis composed music for a special edition episode
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Released album “Rapsodies”.
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1985· 4 entries
Released album “Mask”.
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Released album “Invisible Connections”.
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And 1986, Vangelis wrote music for two more ballets: "Frankenstein – Modern Prometheus" and "The Beauty and the Beast"
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“Frankenstein – Modern Prometheus”
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1984· 4 entries
Released album “Soil Festivities”.
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Released ep “Silent Portraits”.
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Released album “Magic Moments With Vangelis”.
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The Royal Ballet School presented it again at the Sadler's Wells theatre
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1983· 2 entries
Wrote the music for Michael Cacoyannis' staging of the Greek tragedy Elektra which was performed with Irene Papas at the open-air amphitheater at Epidavros in Greece
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Released album “Antarctica: Music From Koreyoshi Karahara’s Film”.
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Score for Chariots of Fire (1982).
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Released album “To the Unknown Man”.
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Released album “Missing”.
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1981· 6 entries
It gained mainstream commercial success which increased Vangelis' profile as a result
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Released album “Picasso”.
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Scored the documentary film Pablo Picasso Painter by Frédéric Rossif
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Vangelis collaborated with director Ridley Scott to score his science fiction film Blade Runner (1982)
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Released album “Chariots of Fire”.
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Released album “Zijn grootste successen”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “See You Later”.
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1979· 5 entries
Released album “Opera sauvage”.
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Released album “China”.
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Released album “Odes”.
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As the duo Jon and Vangelis
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By a third soundtrack for Rossif, Opéra sauvage
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1978· 3 entries
Released album “Beaubourg”.
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Released album “The Dragon”.
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Released album “Hypothesis”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Spiral”.
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1976· 4 entries
With Italian singer Patty Pravo with the album Tanto and with Italian singer Milva achieving success, especially in Germany, with the albums Ich hab' keine Angst also translated in French as Moi, Je N'ai Pas Peur (1981)
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Released album “La Fête sauvage”.
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Released album “Albedo 0.39”.
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Vangelis released his second soundtrack for a Rossif animal documentary, La Fête sauvage, which combined African rhythms with Western music
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1975· 4 entries
Under the French title Entends-tu les chiens aboyer
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Released album “Heaven and Hell”.
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Released album “Ignacio”.
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Vangelis relocated to London, where he built his home recording facility named Nemo Studios and released a series of successful and influential albums for RCA Records, including Heaven and Hell (1975), Albedo 0
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1974· 1 entry
Vangelis collaborated with Italian singer Claudio Baglioni in the album E tu
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1973· 4 entries
Released album “L’Apocalypse des animaux”.
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Released album “Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit”.
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Vangelis released his second solo album Earth, a percussive-orientated album with various additional musicians, including Koulouris and Robert Fitoussi
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Released album “Earth”.
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1971· 2 entries
Vangelis took part in several jam sessions with various musicians in London, the recordings from which were released on two albums released in 1978 without his permission–Hypothesis and The Dragon
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The group split following increasing tensions during the recording of 666, although Vangelis produced several of Roussos' future albums and singles
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Sex Power”.
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1967· 1 entry
At age 25, Vangelis formed a psychedelic/progressive rock band with Demis Roussos, Loukas Sideras, and Anargyros "Silver" Koulouris
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1966· 1 entry
Released ep “Β' Ράλλυ Αντίκα 1966”.
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1963· 2 entries
Following brief stints in art college and an apprenticeship in filmmaking, Vangelis and three school friends started a five-piece rock band, The Forminx (or The Formynx), named after the Ancient Greek string instrument
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Released album “My Brother the Traffic Policeman”.
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1955· 1 entry
Long before the 1934 discovery could be confirmed by observations made in 1990
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-03-29.
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