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This story originally ran on October 5, 2017.
It is being republished today on the occasion of Vangelissdeath at 79.
Blade Runnerdidnt make Vangeliss career.
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou was already a progressive-rock stalwart and newly minted pop star.
In Vangeliss case, it was less genre than worldview.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100 a couple of months later.
More simply put, the music declared that the future is old.
This future was also foreign or, more to the point, polyglot.
More like a Middle Eastern funeral.
