Demis Roussos as vocalist of Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen *** extended intro.

Aphrodite&Child was one of the leading bands of European rock. For two and a half years (from mid &until about the late 70s) Vangelis Papathanassiou, Demis Roussos and Lucas Sideras starred with their songs throughout Europe, achieving huge commercial and artistic success. The band reached Paris in May &(probably not even being aware of their own name yet) is being unearthed by production. Some executives got wind of them, having taken the lead from their mother companies. Being professionals they start working on them and deliver results immediately. Philips producer Pierre Sberro, suggests that they record a song based on a popular canon of a 17th century baroque organist, the German Johann Pachelbel. Indeed, the "Rain and tears" as composition is nothing more than a cover of Pachelbels Canon in D major, with the lyrics of course from Boris Bergman. The piece was impressive. Papathanassiou was in his element on keyboards, Roussos sang with his usual comfort, Sideras kept the rhythm beautifully, and then production added strings, vocals and I do not know how much more. The song, that was released in May &was sung during the summer and autumn of that year all over the world (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, West Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Australia, Brazil, great Britain, Peru, South Africa, Rhodesia, Canada, USA, Japan, Cambodia, Portugal, Israel, Iran... ), occupying very high positions in most of the tops charts. In April &the band was in...