French electronic composer discovered Greek genius through the Blade Runner soundtrack, and began to incorporate similar ...

Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the unforgettable Academy Award-winning score for the film "Chariots of Fire" and music for dozens of other movies, documentaries and TV series, has ...

Composer Vangelis, who gave the movie Chariots of Fire its signature synth-driven sound, has died. He was 79 years old. According to his assistant Lefteris Zermas, Vangelis died on the May 17 in a ...

Vangelis, whose instantly recognizable, Oscar-winning musical theme for 1981’s Chariots of Fire won an Oscar and became a sort of aural shorthand for tales of endurance and triumph, died May 17, ...

Academy Award-winning composer Vangelis died Tuesday at a hospital in France, where he was being treated for COVID-19 Glenn Garner is a form writer-reporter who worked heavily with PEOPLE's Movies and ...

Greek composer Evanghelos Odyssey Papathanassiou, better known to the world as Vangelis, loomed large in the field of electronic music and film scores. Over his lifetime he released 29 studio ...

Vangelis, the Greece-born composer, has died. He was 79. The award-winning composer, born Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, died at a French hospital in Paris, according to Greek media. A cause of ...

The Greek composer Vangelis, dead at 79, won a best original score Oscar for "Chariots of Fire" and composed the music for "Blade Runner." The composer who helped shape the sound of the 1980s as much ...

This column originally appeared in the June 1985 issue of SPIN. “I’ve always been anti-success,” says Vangelis. “Normally, after the success of Chariots of Fire, I would have immediately rushed to the ...

Greek composer Vangelis, who was known for his celebrated film themes for Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner, has died at the age of 79. He won an Oscar for the stirring score to 1981's Chariots of ...