Demis Roussos RIP

soapy_jones

Apart from wanting to start my first RIP Thread...

RIP and what a look

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30984851

Addickted

I thought he'd last forever and ever........

iaitch

Is there a conspiracy theory linking his death to the result of the Greek election?

brogib

RIP

Hastingsaddick

RIP.....Great singer.

ken from bexley

Second posting on a Greek subject today.......
I arrived 5 minutes, on the island of Corfu, and as soon as I got off the coach in 1972 this guys voice echoed out across the beach bars..... They literally played the records back to back. Just think of that holiday every time I hear that voice.......

Vincenzo

I had to get on a 51 bus dressed as him, on the way to a fancy dress party, back in the day. One of the more dangerous journeys of my life.

SuedeAdidas

Didn't he get caught up in a plane hostage situation at some point too?

Brendan_O_Connell

RIP

Absurdistan

rip

Bill_Stumps

Liked him better as the lead singer of Aphrodite's Child than as a solo performer (Vangelis was also a member of the band) . Rain and Tears was a great song.

Bill_Stumps

Just read the BBC item so most of that last posting was superfluous! But Aphrodite's Child was never a progressive rock band.

hawksmoor

I have the Aphrodite's Child double album 666. I don't think I've ever arrived home and thought, 'Do you know what? I really fancy listening to that Greek prog rock album about the Book of Revelation in its entirety tonight.'

mid_life_crisis

Immortalised in Abigail's Party. RIP.

hawksmoor

Bill_Stumps said:

Just read the BBC item so most of that last posting was superfluous! But Aphrodite's Child was never a progressive rock band.

They were kind of going that way with the album 666.

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

Wasn't one of his early songs called "The Roussos Phenomenon"?
Always made me laugh that title. No false modesty
RIP

buckshee

The kop remembers.

uie2

RIP

Bill_Stumps

hawksmoor said:

Bill_Stumps said:

Just read the BBC item so most of that last posting was superfluous! But Aphrodite's Child was never a progressive rock band.

They were kind of going that way with the album 666.

They were essentially a pop group which Vangelis tried to convert into a prog rock outfit. Now Vangelis was genuinely a prog rocker but he couldn't take the others with him and the band split up after 666. Demis Roussos's subsequent career certainly couldn't be described as either "progressive" or "rock".

man_at_milletts

Excellent satire in The Times today picturing Roussos wearing a Greek T-Shirt emblazoned 'Greek Debt', while singing 'Forever, and ever......'