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Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou – better known to the music world as Vangelis –has died. He was 79. People know Vangelis as a soundtrack composer. And he reached influential heights in that department, but he was a pop star, a prog-rock legend, a shapeshifting jazz-fusion experimenter, synthesiser pioneer and so much more.
I probably first knew Vangeli…
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