Not Friday On My Mind 26: Rain and Tears – RIP Demis Roussos
Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Friday On My Mind, Prog Rock at 21:57 on 27 January 2015
So Demis Roussos has gone. He was only 66. Strange that in the 70s he seemed quite old.
He first came to my attention in the 60s as lead singer of Aphrodite’s Child, another of whose members was Vangelis.
I posted their song It’s Five O’Clock here. It was out of songs and groups like this that Prog Rock developed.
I’ll skip over Roussos’s 70s solo number 1 For Ever and Ever and instead feature a live version of Aphrodite’s Child’s only UK hit, a number 29 no less, Rain and Tears.
Aphrodite’s Child: Rain and Tears
Artemios “Demis” Ventouris-Roussos: 15/6/1946 – 25/1/2015. So it goes.
