"ELSEWHERE": Interviews index
-- Various interviews with or about Vangelis --
Text - English - Melody Maker had an article about Vangelis after Aprhodite's Child split up. It has only 1 quote that could make it qualify as an interview, but finding something else from that era is almost impossible.
August 19, 1972.
Text - English - When he just moved from France to Brittain the UK music paper "Sounds" featured an article with interview quotes.
March 9, 1974.
Text - English - British music paper Melody Maker had a lengthy chat with Vangelis that resulted in a colorful interview article. Published on
August 10, 1974.
Text - English - Vangelis had hardly entered the UK, or Sounds already managed to get an interview with him. The "joining Yes" rumors, the many keyboards, the record contract, all the
Brits' favorite topics of the time where covered in this article, published on August 10, 1974.
Text - English - An article about the - at the time - new star in London's musical skies, appeared in the New Musical Express paper on
October 12, 1974.
Text - English - A small and peculiar interview in UK music paper "New Musical Express" paints more scenery than interview quotes but has a happy end.
August 16, 1975.
Text - English, translated from Greek - The Greek musical press was still following Vangelis when he had since long left
for Paris and then London. An interview published in September 1975.
Text - English - This magazine had a special on Synthesizers and started off the issue with a small interview
with Vangelis about the Heaven and Hell album. December 1975.
Text - English - Sounds interviewed Vangelis in his Nemo studio after the release of Heaven and Hell. February 7, 1976.
Text - English, translated from Dutch - Dutch music newspaper (at the time) "Oor", was one of the many to interview Vangelis during this period. Published February 25, 1976.
Text - English - This progrock magazine from the USA visited Vangelis' press conference after the Heaven and Hell concert. Descriptions of the show, and an amusing conversation between Vangelis and an RCA official.
Published in May, 1976.
Text - English - UK music paper Sounds had another interview with Vangelis, focussing on his instruments and recording technique.
Published in June 19, 1976.
Text - English - This represents the text of a special promo LP released after Heaven and Hell, where Vangelis talks about the album and many other topics. Released in 1976.
Text - English - An interview taken during the preparations of the postponed Albedo concert, printed in "Melody Maker",
October 2, 1976.
Text - English - Another article from British music paper "Sounds", this time with Vangelis and engineer Keith Spencer-Allen, focussing more
on the recording process at Nemo studios. Published February 5, 1977.
Text - English, translated from French - French music magazine "Best" always had a nice word to say about Vangelis. In this issue they had a series of interconnected articles about
succesful solo artists, including these interviews with Vangelis and seperately with Jon Anderson. Published in September 1977.
Text - English, translated from Dutch - Dutch music paper Oor had another conversation with Vangelis at the Nemo studio. Published on May 3, 1978.
Text - English - British music newspaper "Sounds" interviewed Jon and Vangelis together,
February 16, 1980, before the release of "Short Stories".
Text - English, translated from French - Published in French music magazine "Best", one of the last interviews before the success of Chariots of Fire. November 1981.
Text - English, translated from Dutch - Backstage, Belgian music magazine, February 1982.
Text - English - Article "An Olympian effort by composer Vangelis ends in an Oscar score for 'Chariots'"
appeared in People Magazine (USA) on April 19, 1982.
Text - English - Interview when he won the Oscar, appearing in famous US music magzine "Rolling Stone" on
May 13, 1982.
Text - English - "American Film" magazine published an article about synthesizers being used in modern film scores, focussing on Vangelis and Giorgio Moroder by means of interviews. Published in
September, 1982.
Text - English, translated from Dutch - This interview originally published in Dutch colorfully describes the journalists visit to Nemo studios. Most likely published in "Music Maker", September (???) 1982.
Text - English, translated from French - This French magazine about electric and electronic instruments interviewed Vangelis when he had just renovated his Nemo studios in London. Printed in January 1984.
Text - English, translated from Greek - An interview published in Greek magazine "Proposa", published in November 1985.
Text - English - On the evening of Vangelis' only non European concert, in Los Angeles 1986, the LA Times newspaper published a short interview. Appeared on November 7, 1986.
Text - English, translated from Greek - Another Greek magazine interviewing Vangelis, around the time that he was in Greece, where performed two concerts Published in February / March, 1988.
Text - English, translated from Italian - Interview in an Italian daily newspaper, La Repubblica, Tuesday March 28, 1989,
around the release of "Fransesco" but before the Rome concert.
Text - English, translated from Dutch - Interview in Dutch daily newspaper "De Telegraaf", June 15, 1991, a
few days prior to his Eureka concert.
Text - English - Interview in British musicians magazine "Keyboard review" December 1992 issue,
around the release of "1492 - Conquest of Paradise".
Text - English - One of the last interviews Vangelis ever gave; this UK magazine printed a small article with a few interview quotes in August 1993.
MP3 audio - English - Telephone interview with Jon Anderson on April 24, 1998, the short parts
appearing here exclusively focus on Jon's work with Vangelis.
Text - English, translated from Greek - The first interview to be published since a very long time, this short questionaire appeared as part of a special in Greece's "Ta Nea", on June 23 2001
Text - English, partly translated from English - Frits Couwenberg of Stichting KLEM interviewed Vangelis in Athens, shortly after the Mythodea concert was performed. Published in KLEMblad 107, October 2001
Text - English, translated from Greek - Quite out of the blue, almost a year after the series of interviews that he gave for the Mythodea release, Vangelis allowed Greek lifestyle magazine "Status" to talk to him. The interview has been published in "the old" quality on many pages, full of pictures that were never seen before and with a photo on the cover. Published in the June issue of 2002
Latest Update: June 9, 2002
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