I’ll always treasure that.īut, more than anything else, thank you Vangelis for all the beautiful and often spine-tingling music that helped lift my healing to heights I couldn’t have imagined. I’m not often starstruck or tongue-tied but that day I was - until he put me at ease and I forgot that I was talking to a legendary figure.Īs one of his greatest fans, I once paid £250 for a signed limited edition album he’d recorded. I once had the privilege of spending an afternoon with Vangelis at his Nemo Studio in London and we chatted about nature, mythology, reincarnation and music. And I think I succeeded to create something like this.” He said: “My interest was not to create a symphony orchestra, which I can very easily, but to go further than that and do things that the symphony orchestra can’t do. Vangelis, the legendary Greek-born electronic composer and musician who was best known for his theme song for Oscar-winning ‘Chariots of Fire’, has died today at the age of 79.įor 40 years his music was the soundtrack of my healing as I played albums such as ‘Oceanic’, ‘1492’, ‘Blade Runner’ and many others, both in private sessions and during healing demonstrations. Vangelis' collaborator for 17 years, conductor of the English Chamber ChoirĪ PART OF MY HISTORY PASSES WITH THE DEATH OF VANGELIS And a special t-shirt for the concert - still here somewhere! I am conducting and look really transported by the music (which I was). Here’s a photo of me with him at the first concert we did together: Heaven And Hell in the Royal Albert Hall in February 1976. But I have been involved in his music many times since, and hope that will continue. So despite our separation for, bizarrely, 30 years now, I still feel very close to him and hugely regret we did not meet again.
He even said, in some early creative sessions, “we are brothers!”, and I helped him through one major personal crisis.
We had not worked together for many years, but between 19 I worked with him closely on many projects, especially writing arrangements, mainly choral, from Heaven and Hell right through to 1492: Conquest of Paradise and I also sang solo tracks and conducted for very many recordings, films and for concerts ranging from the Royal Albert Hall to Docklands in Rotterdam to Athens in the Olympic Stadium and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus on the Acropolis. We’ve rounded up a few ways to watch below.Very sad to hear of Vangelis’s passing.
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