Demis Roussos as vocalist of Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen *** extended intro.

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Aphrodite's Child was one of the leading bands of European rock. For two and a half years (from mid '68 until about the late 70s) Vangelis Papathanassiou, Demis Roussos and Lucas Sideras starred with their songs throughout Europe, achieving huge commercial and artistic success. The band reached Paris in May '68 (probably not even being aware of their own name yet) is being unearthed by production. Some executives got wind of them, having taken the lead from their mother companies. Being professionals they start working on them and deliver results immediately. Philips producer Pierre Sberro, suggests that they record a song based on a popular canon of a 17th century baroque organist, the German Johann Pachelbel. Indeed, the "Rain and tears" as composition is nothing more than a cover of Pachelbels Canon in D major, with the lyrics of course from Boris Bergman. The piece was impressive. Papathanassiou was in his element on keyboards, Roussos sang with his usual comfort, Sideras kept the rhythm beautifully, and then production added strings, vocals and I do not know how much more. The song, that was released in May '68 was sung during the summer and autumn of that year all over the world (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, West Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Australia, Brazil, great Britain, Peru, South Africa, Rhodesia, Canada, USA, Japan, Cambodia, Portugal, Israel, Iran... ), occupying very high positions in most of the tops charts. In April '69 the band was in France and released another successful.45: the "I want to live / Magic mirror" [FR. Mercury 132.505 MCF]. The recipe of "Rain and tears" and repeated here with equally good results. The "Plaisir d'amour" is a classic French love song of Jean Paul Egide Martini written in 1780. Papathanassiou rearranges it as "I want to live" ( Lyrics by Boris Bergman) and Roussos gets it up to the sky. The "Magic mirror" on the b side is however better ( ie rockier ). Synthesis of Papathanasiou, lyrics by John Fiddy, a british librettist. Lukas Sideras singing (also Demis Roussos ), with Papathanasiou delivering a tremendous job on keyboards. Their next single was "Let me love, let me live / Marie Jolie" [FR. Mercury 132.506], issued in October 1969. Essentially it is the single, that prepares the second LP of Aphrodite's Child which was titled "It's Five o 'Clock" [FR. Mercury 138.531], and was going to be released a few days later sometime in November. The first song is a composition by Lukas Sideras, who also sings, lyrics by Richard Francis and if something strikes me it is the sound of guitar derived from the keyboards of Papathanasiou! Towards the end of 1969 or early '70 the next single gets released, namely "It's five o clock / Funky Mary" [FR. Mercury 132 508 MCF]. The songs were of course coming from the LP and were, once again, exquisite. "666" the last work of Aphrodite's Child, is a grand concept album, " the soundtrack of an enormous theatrical performance - concert that never went on stage, about which a full unpublished book was written as well as the lyrics," as the lyricist of "666" director Costas Ferris himself noted in his comments on the aforementioned site. The verses then, that sometimes have a loose and sometimes a stricter relationship to the Revelation of St John, the playing of music ( Vangelis Papathanassiou keys, flute, percussion, vibraphone, vocals, Demis Roussos bass, vocals, Lukas Sideras Drums, Vocals, Argyris Koulouris guitars, percussion, Harris Chalkitis bass, tenor saxophone, conga, vocals, Michel Ripoche trombone, tenor sax, John Frost narration Yannis Tsarouhis, Irene Papas voice - "I was, I am, I am to come" - the notorious " infinity ") and certainly compositions ( all Papathanassiou ) with highlights such as the "Aegean Sea", "The four horsemen" and even with a fourth space / prog side ("All the seats were occupied") one of the strongest ' fourth sides " ever pressed on vinyl (despite Russian critics disagreeing ), the " 666 " is and will remain one of the greatest progressive rock albums that the world has ever heard.