This emotional instrumental is still so iconic.

Vangelis, best known for the “Chariots of Fire’” and “Blade Runner” soundtracks, is dead. He was 79. A rep for the composer told the Guardian that he died at a hospital in France. It is unknown what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, known to cinephiles around the world as Vangelis, has died this week at a hospital in France, ...

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 ...

Greek composer and keyboard player Vangelis poses at his apartment in Paris, 9th June 1991. (Photo by Rob Verhorst/Redferns) Redferns Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the ...

Vangelis, whose instantly recognizable, Oscar-winning musical theme for 1981’s Chariots of Fire won an Oscar and became a sort of aural shorthand for tales of endurance and triumph, died May 17, ...