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Demis Roussos RIP

soapy_jones
soapy_jones Posts: 21,369
in Not Sports Related
Apart from wanting to start my first RIP Thread...

RIP and what a look

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


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  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    I thought he'd last forever and ever........
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,237
    Is there a conspiracy theory linking his death to the result of the Greek election?
  • brogib
    brogib Posts: 2,128
    RIP
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    RIP.....Great singer.
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,085
    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
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    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
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,751
    Didn't he get caught up in a plane hostage situation at some point too?
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    rip
  • Bill_Stumps
    Bill_Stumps Posts: 883
    edited January 2015
    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.

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  • Bill_Stumps
    Bill_Stumps Posts: 883
    Just read the BBC item so most of that last posting was superfluous! But Aphrodite's Child was never a progressive rock band.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    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
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,265
    Immortalised in Abigail's Party. RIP.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    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
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,128
    Wasn't one of his early songs called "The Roussos Phenomenon"?
    Always made me laugh that title. No false modesty
    RIP
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,868
    The kop remembers.
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    RIP
  • Bill_Stumps
    Bill_Stumps Posts: 883
    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
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Excellent satire in The Times today picturing Roussos wearing a Greek T-Shirt emblazoned 'Greek Debt', while singing 'Forever, and ever......'

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