but very loud? super loud. yes. very animated. she couldn t hide her feelings. about anything? about iran? about the traffic? anything. she loved church, playing piano, dancing, and most of all, her friends and family. gelareh bagherzadeh the center of attention in the best of ways. she was screaming all the time, running, jumping, even hugging people. it wasn t a normal hug. she s kind of hanging on your neck because she was so petite and so full of life. she was very sweet. and so that morning after gelareh bagherzadeh was murdered. kathy soltani could hardly believed it when she received a call. that was so surreal. one of our friends from our group, he called me and said, have you heard the news about
chariots of fire, 1981 a soundtrack that was both an oscar winner and a number one single. the work of evangelos 0dysseas papathanassiou, better known as vangelis. he d started playing piano when he was four and in the 60s, aged 25, teamed up with a young demis roussos to form aphrodite s child. # try to look and understand. # whoa. but a life of writing commercial hits for a band was not what he wanted. in his studio in london, he spent hours alone, exploring the possibilities of an emerging new musical
the oscar winning chariots of fire was one of the best known film scores of the 1980s. 0ur arts correspondent david sillito looks back at his life. music: chariots of fire by vangelis. chariots of fire, 1981, a soundtrack that was both an 0scar winner and a number one single. the work of evangelos 0dysseas papathanassiou, better known as vangelis. he d started playing piano when he was four, and in the 60s, aged 25, teamed up with a young demis roussos to form aphrodite s child.
i put a small band together to make this first album. we had danny, james first friend and also the person that introduced me to james in the first place i found a drummer called russ who my first played at a john stewart rehearsal. the way james accompanied himself on the guitar and sang, never heard anything like it. we found the bass player. his song was amazing and demeanor was unlike most cats i knew at that time. finally, i d met one of my idles, one of the greatest s songwriters of all time carole king. i said to carole, about to make this record with james taylor i wonder if you would consider playing piano on it. would you come to my house and meet him? carole said yes. i m down at his house hooking up and we re talking about doing
himself on the guitar and sang, it was brand new to me. never heard anything like it. by this time we had found the bass player of our dreams. his song was amazing and demeanor was unlike most cats i knew at that time. finally, i d met one of my idols, one of the greatest songwriters of all time carole king. i said to carole, about to make this record with james taylor i wonder if you would consider playing piano on it. would you come to my house and meet him? carole said yes. the next thing i know, i m down at this house in hancock park and hooking up, and we re all talking about doing this show. which consequently changed my life for all intents and purposes. i guess i didn t realize how exciting it was at the time it is in retrospect that one looks back and says wow, that was exciting. we were just out here doing what we did, being young and making