"Leigh's 1977 play ""Abigail's Party"". On the day of Roussos' death, the actress Alison Steadman was interviewed by BBC Radio 4's ""PM"" and discussed the significance of the music in the play. Roussos' main hit ""Forever and Ever"" was later spoofed by Kenny Everett on his television show. On 15 June 2016 his children Emily and Cyril opened the Demis Roussos Museum in Nijkerk, The Netherlands. This unique museum shows his life as a musician, singer and performer as well as the character he was as a private person, by photographs, memorabilia, awards etc. It is in the Netherlands because"
"RTB / Philips S 53683 (1973, Yugoslavia) 7"" single Philips 6009 331 (1973) Forever and Ever (Demis Roussos song) ""Forever and Ever"" is a song by Greek singer Demis Roussos. It was released as a single in 1973. The song was included on Roussos' 1973 album ""Forever and Ever"" and later on his 1976 EP ""The Roussos Phenomenon"". The song was written by Alec R. Costandinos and Stélios Vlavianós. The recording was produced by Demis Roussos. There is also a Spanish-language version, titled ""Eternamente"". The song reached no. 1 in Belgium (Flanders), Mexico, and no. 2 in the Netherlands. 7"""
"Forever and Ever (Demis Roussos song) ""Forever and Ever"" is a song by Greek singer Demis Roussos. It was released as a single in 1973. The song was included on Roussos' 1973 album ""Forever and Ever"" and later on his 1976 EP ""The Roussos Phenomenon"". The song was written by Alec R. Costandinos and Stélios Vlavianós. The recording was produced by Demis Roussos. There is also a Spanish-language version, titled ""Eternamente"". The song reached no. 1 in Belgium (Flanders), Mexico, and no. 2 in the Netherlands. 7"" single Philips 6009 331 (1973, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, UK, etc.) 7"" single"
"by Roussos. The lead track ""Forever and Ever"" was later spoofed by Kenny Everett on his television show. Recorded and released as a single by Engelbert Humperdinck in 1975. The Roussos Phenomenon The Roussos Phenomenon (or Excerpts from ""The Roussos Phenomenon"") is an EP by Demis Roussos. It was the only number one hit in the UK Singles Chart for Demis Roussos, spending a single week at the top of the charts in July 1976, and the sole EP to reach the top of the charts that decade. The EP's track listing included ""Forever and Ever"", ""So Dreamy"", and ""My"
"The Roussos Phenomenon The Roussos Phenomenon (or Excerpts from ""The Roussos Phenomenon"") is an EP by Demis Roussos. It was the only number one hit in the UK Singles Chart for Demis Roussos, spending a single week at the top of the charts in July 1976, and the sole EP to reach the top of the charts that decade. The EP's track listing included ""Forever and Ever"", ""So Dreamy"", and ""My Friend the Wind"" written by Stélios Vlavianós and Robert Costandinos; plus ""Sing an Ode to Love"" written by Stélios Vlavianós, Charalampe Chalkitis and Robert Costandinos. The EP was produced"
"German-language album ""Die Nacht und der Wein"". 7"" single Philips 6009 632 (1975, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, etc.) 7"" single RTB / Philips S 53856 (1975, Yugoslavia) From Souvenirs to Souvenirs ""From Souvenirs to Souvenirs"" is a song by Greek singer Demis Roussos from his 1975 album ""Souvenirs"". It was also released as a single (in 1975 on Philips Records). The song was written by Demis Roussos' compatriots composer Stélios Vlavianós and poet Alec R. Costandinos (by the same people who earlier wrote ""Forever and Ever"", Roussos' biggest hit of all time). In 1975, the same year Roussos released the"
"From Souvenirs to Souvenirs ""From Souvenirs to Souvenirs"" is a song by Greek singer Demis Roussos from his 1975 album ""Souvenirs"". It was also released as a single (in 1975 on Philips Records). The song was written by Demis Roussos' compatriots composer Stélios Vlavianós and poet Alec R. Costandinos (by the same people who earlier wrote ""Forever and Ever"", Roussos' biggest hit of all time). In 1975, the same year Roussos released the song, it was performed in Greek by Greek singer Marinella, but her version went unnoticed. In the Soviet Union, ""From Souvenirs to Souvenirs"" was the most popular"
"Demis Roussos Artemios ""Demis"" Ventouris-Roussos (; 15 June 1946 – 25 January 2015) was an Egyptian-born Greek vocalist and performer who had an internationally acclaimed career, as a single recording artist and bandleader. As a band member he is best remembered for his work in the progressive rock music act Aphrodite's Child, but as a vocal soloist, his repertoire included hit songs like ""Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye"" and ""Forever and Ever"". Roussos sold over 60 million albums worldwide and became ""an unlikely kaftan-wearing sex symbol"". Roussos was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, in a Greek<ref name=""om on 6/15/47 in"
"in all. A recording was arranged at the BBC as a ""Play for Today"", produced by Margaret Matheson for BBC Scotland and transmitted in November 1977. The stage play was first performed at the Hampstead Theatre on 18 April 1977, enjoying great success, leading to a revival over the summer of that year, which was another sellout. The television version was abridged from over two hours to 104 minutes; the record played by Beverly in the original stage production was ""Light My Fire"" by José Feliciano and in the TV production it was the 1976 hit ""Forever and Ever"" by"
"""Velvet Mornings / Forever and Ever"", i.e. as a double A-side with the song ""Forever and Ever"".) Greek singer Marinella recorded a Greek version of the song, titled ""Drigi, drigi, mana mou (Velvet mornings)"" (, ""Drigi, drigi, my mother""). U.S. ""Billboard"" magazine reported in January 1973 that she ""was to record a Greek version of Demis Roussos's hit at the recent Rio Song Festival, ""Velvet Mornings"", which she ""had been using [...] in her act for some weeks. Marinella's version also charted in Greece, in October 1973 it was in the top 10 of the domestic (local Greek) singles chart"
"""Forever And Ever"", originally recorded by Kenny and appearing on their 1975 debut LP, ""The Sound Of Super K"", was recognized having hit potential if a more heavy arrangement would be added. The band to provide such was to be Slik, after the Bay City Rollers refused the song, wanting a more heavy and progressive image and instead choosing ""Money Honey"" as their potential UK's Christmas 1975 Number One single.<br> As well as being Slik's one and only UK number-one single, ""Forever And Ever"" was also the band's only top 20 hit. However, lead singer and songwriter Midge Ure went"
"When Forever Has Gone ""When Forever Has Gone"" is a song by Greek singer Demis Roussos. The song ""When Forever Has Gone"" was first released on the B-side of the single ""With You"" in 1974. Later, in 1976, ""When Forever Has Gone"" was released as a single itself. The song was later included on Roussos' 1977 album ""The Demis Roussos Magic"". The song was written by Brent Mason and Stélios Vlavianós. The recording was produced by Peter Sullivan. The song spent two weeks at number 2 in the official UK singles chart in the second half of October 1976, both"
"to be sick together, splashing vomit on the paving stones as the final and most eloquent plea to an apparently deaf, dumb and blind God. [...] I was engaged in an extremely severe struggle not so much against the dull grind of a painful and debilitating illness but with unresolved, almost unacknowledged, 'spiritual' questions. Brimstone and Treacle Brimstone and Treacle is a 1976 BBC television play by Dennis Potter. Originally intended for broadcast as an episode of the ""Play for Today"" series, it remained untransmitted until 1987. The play, featuring Denholm Elliott, was made into a film version (released in"
"Boys sideman John Stamos, appeared on the band's 27th album ""Summer in Paradise"" in 1992. Stamos performed the song on at least three episodes of his sitcom ""Full House"". On the first episode of ""Fuller House"" in 2016, ""Forever"" was once again performed by Jesse and the Rippers with other characters from the show singing as well. An a cappella version of the song was included on the Beach Boys' ""Hawthorne, CA"" anthology album. Forever (The Beach Boys song) ""Forever"" is a song written by Dennis Wilson and his close friend Gregg Jakobson. It was released in 1970 as the"
"and more. It's ingeniously designed and staged, strongly sung and acted; and, though it has only a few musical numbers in its 100 minutes of playing time, each song is splendid."" The Pegasus Players also produced the piece in 2007, in the swimming pool at Truman College. The first regional production of the revival version opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 20, 2007, starring Jordan Grubb as Xanthias and Dale Spollett as Dionysos. It closed after a limited engagement on February 27, 2007. On February 3, 2011, a production by the FreeFall Theatre opened at their venue in Saint Petersburg,"
"Forever (The Beach Boys song) ""Forever"" is a song written by Dennis Wilson and his close friend Gregg Jakobson. It was released in 1970 as the ninth track on the Beach Boys' ""Sunflower"" album. The song, along with the rest of the album, was produced by the Beach Boys. The lead vocal is sung by Dennis. His brother Brian declared, ""'Forever' has to be the most harmonically beautiful thing I've ever heard. It's a rock and roll prayer."" The violins were actually played on a Chamberlin. A newly recorded version of the song, featuring lead vocals from actor and Beach"
"Forever and Ever (Slik song) ""Forever and Ever"" is a UK number-one single by Scottish glam rock band Slik, released in 1975. It was number one for one week in February 1976, knocking ABBA's ""Mamma Mia"" off the number-one position. It was also a hit in Ireland, reaching number two on the charts there. The song was written by the well established songwriting partnership of Bill Martin and Phil Coulter who had recently split from writing for the Bay City Rollers. Slik's previous and first released single ""Boogiest Band in Town"" was unsuccessful in the spring of 1975. The song"
"of the play, which formed part of the BBC's ""The Theban Plays"" trilogy. In 1977, CBS Radio Mystery Theater broadcast a version of the story called ""So Shall Ye Reap"", set in what was then the US Territory of New Mexico in 1851. Other television Oedipus's include Christopher Plummer (1957), Ian Holm (1972) and Patrick Stewart (1977). In 2017, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a production of Anthony Burgess' translation of the play with Christopher Eccleston as Oedipus and Fiona Shaw as Tiresias/Second Elder. John Shrapnel, who starred as Creon in the 1986 BBC television version, played The First Elder. Peter"
"sang lead vocals on a new version of ""Forever"" for their album ""Summer in Paradise"". The song was originally written and sung by Beach Boy Dennis Wilson and released in 1970. The song was also featured twice on ""Full House"". The first was a recording sung at his character's wedding, while the second was a recording sung for his character's twin sons. The 1992 music video, titled ""Forever by Jesse and the Rippers"", featured Stamos predominantly. Three of The Beach Boys members are however briefly shown singing harmonies with Stamos: Carl Wilson, Bruce Johnston, and Mike Love. Since the 1990s,"
"Mikis Theodorakis 1970: ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" – Burt Bacharach § 1971: ""Summer of '42"" – Michel Legrand † 1972: ""The Godfather"" – Nino Rota 1973: ""O Lucky Man!"" – Alan Price 1974: ""Murder on the Orient Express"" – Richard Rodney Bennett ‡ 1975: ""Jaws"" † and ""The Towering Inferno"" ‡ – John Williams 1976: ""Taxi Driver"" – Bernard Herrmann ‡ 1977: ""A Bridge Too Far"" – John Addison 1978: ""Star Wars"" – John Williams § 1979: ""Days of Heaven"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1980: ""The Empire Strikes Back"" – John Williams ‡ 1981: ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"""
"Roussos also guested on Vangelis's soundtrack to ""Blade Runner"" (1982), on the tracks ""Tales of the Future"", ""Damask Rose"", ""Taffey's Snake Pit Bar"", and ""On the Trail of Nexus 6"" (several only available in non-bootleg form on the 29th Anniversary Limited Edition CD set released in 2011). Roussos also began a solo career with the song ""We Shall Dance"" in 1971, which was a top ten hit in both the Netherlands and Belgium. Initially unsuccessful, he toured around Europe and became a leading artist. His solo career peaked in the mid 1970s with several hit albums. His single ""Forever and"
"famous Greek institution in Istanbul then Constantinople). The songs were all by Mikis Theodorakis with the Greek Radio Television Symphony Orchestra. The first part included symphonic songs in various languages (Greek, Italian, German, English, French and Chinese) and in the second part, ""Axion esti"" with Konstantinos Markoulakis as narrator and Frangoulis in the role of the Popular Singer. On 22 May, at the 57th Cannes Film Festival, he attended the world premiere of the film ""De-Lovely"", based on the life of Cole Porter, and starring Kevin Klein. Frangoulis played the part of Alfred Drake, a Broadway star of the 1960s,"
"1974. It ran for 591 performances in its first run on Broadway (through March 1976). It was revived on Broadway on 18 October 2005 at the Biltmore Theatre, for 56 performances. In 1994 James Maxwell directed a production for the Royal Exchange, Manchester with Trevor Cooper, Margo Gunn, Denys Hawthorne, Patrick O'Kane and Amanda Boxer. The BBC produced a television drama, adapted from the play, first broadcast on 1 January 1985. It was directed by Michael Simpson and starred John Baddeley, Cheryl Campbell, Michael Gambon, Nicky Henson, Lesley Joseph, Maureen Lipman, Geoffrey Palmer and Prunella Scales. The play was revived"
"of ""A Man for All Seasons"" at the Oxford Playhouse was especially successful. In 1974, Jon Plowman directed a musical version of ""Zuleika Dobson"" at the Oxford Playhouse, with a script by Reggie Oliver and music by Michael Brand. In the late 1970s, the Univ Players produced successful outdoor summer productions of ""The Seagull"" (1976, in St Hilda's meadow), ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and an adaptation of ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1977 and 1978, in the grounds of Magdalen College School by Magdalen Bridge). More recently they have had annual outdoor summer productions in the garden of the Master's Lodgings. Recent"
"The Story of Demis Roussos The Story of ... Demis Roussos is a double LP by Greek singer Demis Roussos, released in 1987 on the label . The album reached no. 16 in the Netherlands. All the songs on the album were Demis Roussos's old songs (including some that he had sung as a vocalist with the band Aphrodite's Child). The first 8 tracks (the whole side 1 and tracks 1–3 on side 2) were recorded live during ""Goud van Oud Live"" on April 10, 1987 in Rosmalen. All the tracks on side 3 were new studio re-recordings of old"
"weeks losing to Pussycat's ""Mississippi"". 7"" single ""With You"" Philips 6009 543 (1974, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, etc.) 7"" single ""With You"" RTB / Philips S 53804 (1974, Yugoslavia) 7"" single ""When Forever Has Gone / Woman"" Philips 6042 186 (1976, Germany) 7"" single ""When Forever Has Gone"" Philips S 53 804 (1976) When Forever Has Gone ""When Forever Has Gone"" is a song by Greek singer Demis Roussos. The song ""When Forever Has Gone"" was first released on the B-side of the single ""With You"" in 1974. Later, in 1976, ""When Forever Has Gone"" was released as a"
"1978 for British TV starring Tommy Steele as Point, Terry Jenkins as Fairfax, Anne Collins as Carruthers, Laureen Livingstone as Elsie, Della Jones as Phoebe, Paul Hudson as Meryll and Dennis Wickes as Wilfred. It was directed by Anthony Besch and conducted by David Lloyd-Jones in connection with 1978 City of London Festival. The musical group Peter, Paul and Mary included the song, ""I have a song to sing, O!"" on one of their children's albums, ""Peter, Paul and Mommy"" (1969). In 1973, a BBC TV ""Play for Today"" production, ""Jack Point"", by Colin Welland, directed by Michael Apted, concerned"
"composer Frederick Delius. Adrian once said that, of all the roles he had ever played, he had never had such difficulty in ridding himself of involvement in a character as that of Delius in ""Song of Summer"". Also on television, he appeared in a 1957 adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel ""Beyond This Place"", which was directed by Sidney Lumet. His other television work included the role of Senator Ludicrus Sextus in the first season of ""Up Pompeii!"" with Frankie Howerd (1969), Fagin in the 1962 dramatisation of ""Oliver Twist"", and parts in ""The Baron"", ""Adam Adamant Lives!"" and ""Perry"
"(1971), ""The Foxtrot"" (1971), ""Home"" (1972), ""Bar Mitzvah Boy"" (1976), ""Abigail's Party"" (1977), ""Blue Remembered Hills"" (1979) and ""Just a Boys' Game"" (1979). Certain other well known plays, including ""Penda's Fen"" (1974), ""Nuts in May"" (1976), were commissioned by David Rose of the BBC's English Regions Drama department based in Birmingham. Some installments in the series were spun off into full-blown series. Probably the two best-remembered examples of this are """", which was produced as a one-off in the ""Play for Today"" strand in 1975 and three years later became a series for Thames Television, again with Leo McKern, and"
"directed by Mandy Keister. In 2012, the play was adapted into the opera ""The Trial of Socrates"", with libretto and score by Andrew Hopper of the Birmingham Conservatoire. The opera was premiered in Birmingham on May 8, 2012. On September 25, 2015, the play had its European premiere in Athens at the Alkmini Theatre under the direction of Anna Lazou. The translation into Greek was done by Giannis Spyridis. The title role was played by Demophilus-Vias Mpillinis and Thanassis Nakos. Music was provided by Christos Pantas. Costumes and masks were by Katerina Mpillinis. The play was originally published in 2008"
"In 1976, the ERT gave a broadcast of play, adapted for television, directing and starring by Dinos Iliopoulos, Panos Panopoulos, Nikos Kapios, Manolis Destounis, Dinos Doulgerakis etc. The Mega Channel gave a deferred broadcast in 2015 from the play, as played in the theater ""Alice"" (Αλίκη) in Athens, 2013–2014 theatrical season. John Mortimer then wrote the screenplay for a 1968 20th Century Fox feature film directed by Jacques Charon (who had also directed Mortimer's 1966 translation for the stage). The cast included Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Louis Jourdan, and Rachel Roberts. The stage is first set in a comfortable home"
"of Fire"". Vangelis' other soundtracks include Ridley Scott's ""Blade Runner"" (1982), to which Roussos contributed vocals, """" (1992) and Oliver Stone's ""Alexander"" (2004). Roussos died in 2015. Koulouris worked with both Roussos and Vangelis on occasion, while Sideras pursued a less successful solo career, releasing an album and the single ""Rising Sun"" after the break-up. As of 2017, Sideras still lived in Greece and performed with his band. Despite their short existence and lack of hit singles outside of Europe, the band is respected as a cult band, and their album ""666"" is often considered their masterwork in addition to"
"to write stage plays, becoming writer-in-residence for the National Theatre at the age of 24, but he became increasingly interested in the medium of television, with ""Stronger Than the Sun"" (1977 – BBC1 ""Play for Today""), ""Bloody Kids"" (1980 – ATV) directed by Stephen Frears, ""Caught on a Train"" (1980 – BBC2 ""Playhouse"") starring Peggy Ashcroft, and "" Soft Targets"" (1982 – ""Play for Today""). There were also TV adaptations of his stage plays ""Hitting Town"" (1976 – Thames Television/ITV ""Plays for Britain"") and "" City Sugar"" (1978 – Scottish Television / ITV ""The Sunday Drama""). These two plays were"