Pavlos Sidiropoulos

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Sidiropoulos began his career in 1970 in Thessaloniki, where he was studying Mathematics. Together with Pantelis Delleyannides he founded the rock group “Damon and Phidias”. They soon met the influential Greek musician Dionysis Savvopoulos and his group “Bourboulia”. They joined that group and participated in the album “Damis the tough” (Greek: Damis o Skliros.). They stayed in this group for two years until 1974 when Bourboulia and Sidiropoulos' ways departed. It was through this group that Sidiropoulos first experimented with combining Greek and Rock music.



Afterwards, Sidiropoulos collaborated with the Greek composer Yannis Markopoulos: he sang in his compositions “Oropedio” and “Thessalikos Kiklos”. In 1976, together with Spiropoulos brothers, he foounded the music group “Spiridoula”. They created the album "Flou", considered by many the most important album in Greek rock music. A song of that era (“Clown”) later came out in the album “Zorba the freak”. It was during this period that Sidiropoulos made his two film appearances. He had the leading role in the film “O asymvivastos”, directed by Andreas Thomopoulos. He also wrote the music for the film. At the same time, he starred (together with Dimitris Poulikakos) in another movie by Thomopoulos, “Aldevaran”. Sidiropoulos also made one appearance on TV at a serial entitled “Oikogeneia Zarnti”, directed by Kostas Ferris.



In 1980, Sidiropoulos joined the band “Oi aprosarmostoi”, where he remained until his death. This was arguably his most successful collaboration with a band. They released several albums and made numerous live performances. In 1982, the album “En leyko” was published. Unfortunately, many of the songs were censored. In 1985, the notable LP “Zorba the Freak” was released, and in 1989 they released “Without Make-up” (in Greek), which was recorded live at Metro club in Athens.On December 6, 1990 he died from a heroin overdose.

LP"Ante kai Kali Tixi Mages"(1991),LP"Ta blouz tou Prigkipa"(1992),

LP"En Arxh hn o Logos(1994)"released after his death.Also released an LP"Ston P"(2000)which have songs of Pavlos sang from some Greek Artists.