The great composer and singer, Stavros Logaridis, passed away at the age of 69.
Logaridis lost the battle with cancer, leaving behind a great work. He was an important creator who was a member of the legendary band Pollwith Costa Tournas and the Robert Williams.
Logaridis was born in Constantinople On September 21, 1953, he started playing music before going to primary school under the guidance of his grandfather, who was a lead singer in the church of Agios Georgios at the Patriarchate, ordained by Athenagoras.
As a child he had a penchant for sound as well as rhythmic education. When his grandfather realized that his student was not a child who could easily concentrate on learning to write, he began to teach him sounds and rhythms: he would take him with him to church and let him instinctively follow the chanters with tendons that the little one improvised. Stavros. His father played the guitar and his mother the accordion.
He got his first guitar when he was 10 years old when he first heard the music of the sixties. At the age of fourteen he formed the band Juniors and at the same time the group Sphinx. The Sphinx, together with Alex Banakis, Nakis Saris and Michalis Aspiotis, won the first prize in a pan-Turkish music competition announced by the Hurriyet newspaper at the time.
At the age of 15 he came to Athens and went to the then Polydor and released his first 45 rpm album with the funny title “She was a little girl and a brunette”.
He collaborates in the studio with the organizer of Charms and participates to make money on Hatzidakis’s vocals in the films of Aliki Vougiouklaki, in Finos.
Poll – Man love
The then director of Polydor N. Antipas insists on meeting him with some musicians with “very nice songs” as he said to create a band in 1970. Stavros tried to explain to Antipas that the bands are not made with companies but through friendships . But after perseverance and pressure, he convinces him to go to the musicians’ house to listen to the songs and meet them. There he met for the first time with K. Tournas, Robert Williams and K. Papaioannou.
He gets excited about the songs and forgets his principles about “group friendship”. The rehearsals start and you make the group Poll that will make two big landmark records on the Greek scene, the “Man” and the “White Album”. As well as a series of 45-bit singles. Stavros leaves the band when the rest of the group decides to appear at the Thessaloniki festival in 1972.
The First Song
Makes the band Akritas, released the self-titled album sold in Germany and Japan and is considered one of the most progressive albums of all time in the world. It is included and mentioned even today by the most progressive music sites in Europe, America.
In Japan it was released on a Japanese cover that is considered a rare “collectors item” in music lovers’ circles today. The Akritas collaborated live with the Bourboulias of that time and recorded six songs in Germany with D. Papachristou, A. Tasoulis and G. Tsoupakis.
Later, A.Mac Kinnon and G. Papadopoulos will join the band, where they traveled to London to write with Vangelis Papathanassiou. 5 songs were recorded that remained unreleased until today.
Television and cinema
At the same time, until 1977 he will make music for two TV series, the “Menexedenia State” of A. Terzakis, for which a large trial took place in London in 1986, because Logaridis’s publisher, EMI London, considered that he should sue WARNER America and Vangelis Papathanassiou for infringing copyright…
He also composed the music for the series “Zardis Family” by K. Hatziargyris on state television, collaborating with the director Costas Ferris. He has written the music for the feature film “The Fonissa” by Al. Papadiamantis, where he won the 1st prize at the Thessaloniki Festival in his first post-political and episodic premiere with a jury of Melina Mercouri, Manos Loizos, Nikos Koundouros and others.
He actively participated in the construction of the new Greek cinema with collaborations and friendships with Panousopoulos, Nikolaidis, Ferris, Perrakis, Koundouros, Ant. Kafetzopoulos and others.
1970 -1980
From 1976 to 1981 he released three personal albums, the “Black and White” album of the same name with producer Giannis Petridis, with collaborators Manolis Rasoulis and Grigoris Falireas. The album “Alli Gi” produced by Loukas Sideras of Afrodites Child, with collaborators P. Sidiropoulos, G. Filippidis, G. Betzikis, D. Papachristou and others.
Also on the album “Zardi Family” and “Prosechos”, which includes the music he wrote for the film “Oi apenanti” by G. Panousopoulos.
He always continues to collaborate with his friend and lifelong guitarist Dimis Papachristou (1953-2007). At that time he terminated his contract with Polydor. In 1985 he collaborates with the company Lyra. He works with G. Zikas and El. Arvanitaki on the album “Me ta feggaria hanomai” where he orchestrates and sings the 10 songs of the album, the other two were sung by El. Arvanitaki making her debut as a solo career after the “Backward Company” that participated until then.
In 1985 he also recorded an album in London with EMI (London) Alchemy which has only orchestral music, among which is the controversial part of his dispute with Vangelis “Menexedenia Politia”.
1980-1990
In 1981 he went to Hamburg where he collaborated for 2 years with the German band Elephant. From 1986 to ’89 he will spend the dark period of his life with substances and the nightmare of the “Papathanassiou” trial. With courts in London, divorce, separations, wildlife and with recordings and glazing with P. Sidiropoulos, Spyridoula, D. Poulikakos.
Then he makes a production in Chr. Kyriazi and others. At the same time he was arrested twice for drug use, escaped from prison but scarred and injured himself and his career. He did detoxification in Amsterdam in ’89, returned to Greece with the help of M. Matsas and at the same time released the album “Manoula Hellas” by Minos.
In 1992 he moved to Tinos and lived for 3 years where he worked on the album “Dream States” with collaborators Vasso Allagianni, Tassos Falireas and George Kyvelos was released on BMG. Then the route Tinos-Ag. Mountain on a metaphysical journey.
He returned to Athens and in 1996 he started again with Minos the album “Perasmenos Aionas” which was released in 1999 with collaborators B. Stokas, El. Municipality and N. Portokaloglou. Following is the album with Sony “A dive into love” with collaborators K. Livadas, El. Tsaligopoulou, M. Famello, N. Portokaloglou, G. Klioumi.
2000-2010
In 2004 he releases the album “Suddenly Summer” with El. Zioga and L. Dimopoulou, Tz. Kefala, G. Spatha in Minos again with guitarist D. Papachristou.
Logaridis appeared rarely and more rarely were his concerts, one of his last live collaborations was in 2005 with Socrates and D. Poulikakos on the Magic Bus of Club22 with the life guitarist and friend of Dimis Papachristos, where he lost him from cancer after two years In 2009 he released a double album and a DVD in the newspaper Kyriakatiki Eleftherotypia entitled “Children play”.
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