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Vangelis (29/3/1943 –17/5/2022) was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He composed the Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.
Vangelis started writing music when he was 4 and performed his first live concert at age 6.
He started his career as a member of The Forminx. In the sixties, he was a founding member of Aphrodite's Child along with Demis Roussos and Lucas Sideras. He also enjoyed succes as part of Jon & Vangelis early in the eighties. The Best Of Vangelis from 1993 is an absolute classic. It contains Vangelis classics like “Alpha”, “To The Unknown Man”, “Pulstar (Audio)”, “Spiral” and “So Long Ago, So Clear” featuring Jon Anderson from Yes.
Tracklist
Side A
1. Spiral
2. Pulstar
3. Freefall
4. Sword Of Orion
Side B
1. Alpha
2. Ballad
Side C
1. To the Unknown Man
2. So Long Ago, So Clear
3. Shine for Me
4. Mare Tranquillitatis
Side D
1. Dervish D.
2. Theme from the TV Series "Cosmos" (Heaven and Hell, 3rd Movement)
3. 12 O'Clock
4. Bacchanale