RIP Maestro, your works are timeless! I firstly heared Vangelis from Ariston commercial w/ Ask The Mountains track promice to add a link to YT when I can
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#22Chariots of Fire is iconic of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo I think my first encounter with his music was the Ernest & Julio Gallo wine commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mES7lzR9uFE Seems he should have been considerably older than 79.
And you can't mention the Ernest & Julio Gallo ads without a link to the voiceover guy / head of the ad agency Hal Riney. Another legend.
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#23"State of Independence" by Jon [Anderson of Yes] and Vangelis. Also features the wonderful Dick Morrissey (who, amongst other things with Vangelis, plays saxophone on the Blade Runner soundtrack).
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#24This gave me goosebumps because I could not stop thinking about him the past week or so and I could not understand why...
Αναπαύσου εν ειρήνη θρύλε, Rest in peace legend.
Καλό ταξίδι γίγαντα μου https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd-DlMOLCY4
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#25Massive, epic talent. Did everything by ear and instinct, never learned to read or write music. Incredible feel for timbre, melody, and structure.
The DX7 synth used to have a ridiculous "chuff chuff chuff DING!" comedy steam train preset. It sounded terrible and was utterly useless except as a 10 second novelty.
He used it in one of his soundtracks - and somehow made it perfectly musical in that setting.
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#26This was sad news indeed. I have just listened to his works again for the first time in years, after a random encounter with a guy wearing a faded Chariots of Fire T-shirt - next thing I knew, I spent several hours in my hotel room, listening to several albums to kill time and rekindle my on-and-off love affair with his music.
Today, as I flew home from working overseas for a few weeks, I listened to Opera Sauvage over and over again - then landing at my destination to see news of his passing.
Sigh.
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#27Damn, RIP. Dude wrote my favorite song describing what color each horse of the apocalypse is
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#28I don't know much about Vangelis other than Chariots of Fire, he's Greek, and my neighbor when I was a kid loved the shit out of him. I assumed for a very long time Vangelis was an entire band and not just one person.
RIP amongst so many others, lately.
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#29Damn, RIP. Dude wrote my favorite song describing what color each horse of the apocalypse is
Most people know him from his brilliant film scores, but his prog rock era is up there with the greatest of the genre too
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#30So Long Ago, So Clear, in our headphones, on a foggy night, on the Pont au Double, when the Bateau-Mouche passed under, searchlights setting the air on fire. Pure, pure magic. Thanking you.