Pavlos Sidiropoulos, singer, songwriter, composer and actor, died on December 6, 1990 of a drug overdose. He had problems with his left hand and the death of his mother a few months before, led him to ruin.

The “prince” of Greek rock of music was born in July 1948 in Athens. He was very close to his mother and generally had a particularly good relationship with women. His greatest love, music. He got good grades at school, while in 1967 he entered the Mathematics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, but music was what conquered him. He himself came from a well-to-do family, he was the great-grandson of Alexis Zorbas, the nephew of prose writer and educator Elli Alexiou, as well as Galatea Kazantzakis, the first wife of the writer Nikos Kazantzakis.

The musical beginning

His musical career began in 1969, with the duo Damon and Phidias, together with Pantelis Deligiannidis, the guitarist of “Olympians”. Together they came into contact with the record company “Lyra” and released the 45 rpm record with the songs “To kespasma” and “Their world”, while at the same time they participated in the collection “Alive in the cell”. There they met other artists such as Thanasis Gaiphyllias and Dimitris Poulikakos as well as the Bourboulias who were already collaborating with Dionysis Savvopoulos.

Damis the cruel, censorship and dissolution

When two members from Bourboulia left because they fell out with Dionysis Savvopoulos, Sidiropoulos and Deligiannidis replaced them. The new band performed various live performances and released the 45-rpm record “Damis the Hard”, which was originally called “Damis the Robber”.

However, the censorship of the Junta “knocked” on their door, resulting in the group disbanding when Deligiannidis left in 1974. Pavlos returned to Athens and started working in his father’s company.

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