Vangelis Papathanassiou

Born in 1943 on the 29th of March near the town of Volos Greece, for as far back as he can remember, Vangelis has always been obsessed with sound. He began composing music at the age of four.but as a young lad, he refused to take traditional piano lessons and subsequently, throughout much of his early career, he had very little knowledge of how to read or write musical notation. Today he proudly proclaims predominance as a self-taught musician.yet, having studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Athens, few are also aware that he's an accomplished painter as well.

Below is a partial list of just some of his musical achievements.

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Albums with Aphrodite’s Child

•End of the World (1968)

•It's Five O'Clock (1969)

•666 (1971)

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Studio albums

• The Dragon (1971)

• Hypothesis (1971)

•Fais que Ton Rêve Soit Plus Long que la Nuit (1972)

•Earth (1973)

•Heaven and Hell (1975)

•Albedo 0.39 (1976)

•Spiral (1977)

•Beaubourg (1978)

•China (1979)

•See You Later (1980)

•Soil Festivities (1984)

•Mask (1985)

•Invisible Connections (1985)

•Direct (1988)

•The City (1990)

•Voices (1995)

•Oceanic (1996)

•El Greco (1998)

•Mythodea (2001)

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Film scores and Documentaries

•Sex Power (1970)

•L'Apocalypse des Animaux (1973)

• Georges Mathieu ou la Fureur d'Être (1973)

• Georges Braque ou le temp different (1974)

•Entends-Tu les Chiens Aboyer/Ignacio (1975)

• Crime and Passion (1975)

•La Fête Sauvage (1976)

• Opera Sauvage (1979)

• Chariots of Fire (1981)

• Pablo Picasso, Peintre (1982)

• Missing (1982)

•Blade Runner (1982)

•Antarctica (1983)

• The Bounty (1984)

• Sauvage et Beau (1984)

• Francesco (1989)

• de Nuremberg a Nuremberg (1989)

• Jacques Cousteau (1991)

•Conquest of Paradise (1992)

• The Plague (1992)

• Bitter Moon (1992)

• Cavafy (1996)

•Alexander (2004)

• Blade Runner 25th Anniversary (2007)

• El Greco (2007)

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Limited releases

•Silent Portraits (1984)

•Foros Timis Ston Greco (1995)

• Night of Poetry (1999)

•Ithaca (2004)

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Ballet and Theatre

• Elektra (1983)

• Frankenstein - Modern Prometheus (1985)

• The Beauty and the Beast (1986)

• Medea (1992)

• Las Troyanas (2001)

• The Tempest (2002)

• Antigone (2005)

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Collaborative works

• In Concert and in the Studio - George Romanos (1968)

• Etu - Claudio Baglioni (1974)

• Mariangela - Mariangela (1975)

• Phos - Socrates (1976)

• Concerto per Margherita - Richard Cocciante (1976)

•Magic - Demis Roussos (1977)

•Odes - Irene Papas (1979)

•Short Stories - Jon Anderson & Vangelis (1980)

•The Friends of Mr. Cairo - Jon Anderson & Vangelis (1981)

•Ich Hab' Keine Angst - Milva (1981)

•Private Collection - Jon Anderson & Vangelis (1983)

• Reflection - Demis Roussos (1984)

• Velocity of Love - Suzanne Ciani (1985)

• Love Hurts - Elaine Page (1985)

•Rapsodies - Irene Papas (1986)

•Geheimnisse - Milva (1986)

• 17 Songs - Maria Farantouri (1990)

•Page of Life - Jon Anderson & Vangelis (1991)

• Friends for Life - Montserrat Caballé (1997)

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Compilation albums

•The Best of Vangelis (1978)

•To the Unknown Man (1982)

•Magic Moments (1985)

•The Best of Jon & Vangelis (1984)

•Themes (1989)

•Chronicles - Jon & Vangelis (1994)

•Mundo Magico de Vangelis (1995)

•Portraits {So Long Ago, So Clear} (1996)

•Reprise 1990-1999 (2000)

•Cosmos (2002)

•Odyssey: The Definitive Collection (2003)



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