This emotional instrumental is still so iconic.

ATHENS - Vangelis, the Greek composer whose rousing electronic theme music for the Oscar-winning 1981 film "Chariots of Fire" ...

Academy Award-winning composer Vangelis died Tuesday at a hospital in France, where he was being treated for COVID-19 Glenn Garner is a form writer-reporter who worked heavily with PEOPLE's Movies and ...

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Vangelis, the electronic music pioneer best known for his soundtracks to both Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner, has died. Representatives have not offered a cause of death, although they confirmed he ...

Vangelis—the composer who scored Blade Runner, Chariots of Fire, and many other films—has died, Reuters reports, citing the Athens News Agency. A cause of death was not revealed. According to The ...

Vangelis, the innovative Greek composer whose catalog spans electronic music, progressive rock and major film scores (Blade Runner, Chariots of Fire), has died at age 79. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos ...

In June 1994 the late composer Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou – better known as Vangelis – released his soundtrack for the 1982 film Blade Runner. It would go on to become emblematic of his skills, ...

The album cover to the original 1982 “Blade Runner” soundtrack (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment). There exist competing ideas as to what makes a film score especially “great.” Some argue that ...

"I imagine myself being in the position of Rosetta, and going there," Vangelis says. "It's something amazing." Amazing — and disorienting. "You have to go through, sometimes, total dark," Vangelis ...

Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the unforgettable Academy Award-winning score for the film “Chariots of ...

A master of the synthesizer, he won an Oscar for that film’s score, and his memorable theme song became a No. 1 pop hit. By Richard Sandomir Vangelis, the Greek film composer and synthesizer virtuoso ...