“A special man, it was even said that he could not write”: Vangelis dies at the age of 79

Do not confuse Vangelis with Demis Roussos: that was his Greek colleague musician who did become known for his appearance as a druid. After their musical separation, Vangelis turned out to be an unseen master of instrumental music. At the age of 79, Evangelos Papathanassiou exchanged the earthly for eternity, which is what his compositions aimed for anyway. “He is not always taken seriously, wrongly,” says Wim Mertens, who signed for Vangelis’ only concert in Belgium.

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