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<p>Larger than life Greek pop singer Demis Roussos who started his career as part of the progressive rock group Aphroditie’s Child along with fellow member Vangelis, became a major presence as a solo artist in the UK pop scene in the mid 1970s.</p>
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<p>His most successful single "Forever And Ever" was No. 1 in the Charts in 1976, and he followed that with five other Top Ten Hits. As his career grew so did his waistline and so too did his signature kaftans which were the epitome of camp, and they just got bigger and brasher.</p><p></p><p>
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<p>Roussos’s other claim to fame came in June 1985, when he was one of the passengers of TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome, which was hijacked by Hezbollah-backed terrorists and diverted to Beirut. He and most of the 153 passengers were held on the plane for 17 days.</p><p></p><p>Demis Roussos 15 June 1946 – 25 January 2015</p><p></p><p>
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Larger than life Greek pop singer Demis Roussos who started his career as part of the progressive rock group Aphroditie’s Child along with fellow member Vangelis, became a major presence as a solo artist in the UK pop scene in the mid 1970s.
His most successful single "Forever And Ever" was No. 1 in the Charts in 1976, and he followed that with five other Top Ten Hits. As his career grew so did his waistline and so too did his signature kaftans which were the epitome of camp, and they just got bigger and brasher.
Roussos’s other claim to fame came in June 1985, when he was one of the passengers of TWA Flight 847 from Athens to Rome, which was hijacked by Hezbollah-backed terrorists and diverted to Beirut. He and most of the 153 passengers were held on the plane for 17 days.
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