''Reflection'' is an album released in 1984 by

Demis Roussos Artemios "Demis" Ventouris-Roussos ( ; el, Αρτέμιος "Ντέμης" Βεντούρης-Ρούσσος, ; 15 June 1946 – 25 January 2015) was a Greek singer, songwriter and musician. As a band member he is best remembered for his work in ...

. After having collaborated several times since the days of

Aphrodite's Child Aphrodite's Child was a Greek rock and pop band formed in 1967, by Vangelis Papathanassiou (keyboards, flutes), Demis Roussos (bass, acoustic and electric guitar, vocals), Loukas Sideras (drums and vocals), and Silver Koulouris (guitar). They ...

, ''Reflection'' was the last album on which Roussos and

Vangelis Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou ( el, Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου ; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis ( ; el, Βαγγέλης, links=no ), was a Greek composer and arranger of ...

collaborated. Another member from that band, guitarist Argyris 'Silver' Koulouris, also appears on this album. Vangelis' habitual collaborators, jazz saxophonist

Dick Morrissey Richard Edwin Morrissey (9 May 1940 – 8 November 2000) was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone and flute. Biography Background He was born in Horley, Surrey, England. Dick Morrissey emerg ...

, and vocalists

Carol Kenyon Carol Kenyon (sometimes spelt Karol; born 1959) is a British singer. She is best known for her vocals on the Heaven 17 hit song "Temptation", which reached number two in the UK Singles Chart in 1983. When the song was re-released as a remix by ...

and

Tessa Niles Tessa Margaret Niles ( ''née'' Webb; born 27 January 1961 in Ilford, Essex) is an English singer, best known as a backing singer for a wide variety of contemporary artists. She began her professional singing career in 1979. Early life and ca ...

also appear.

Track listing

#" When a Man Loves a Woman" (A. Wright & C. Lewis) #" Stand by Me" (J. Leiber, M. Stoller, King & Nelson) #" Love Me Tender" (

Elvis Presley Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), or simply Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Elvis Presley, one ...

& Vera Matson) #"

The Great Pretender "The Great Pretender" is a popular song recorded by The Platters, with Tony Williams on lead vocals, and released as a single in November 1955. The words and music were written by Buck Ram, the Platters' manager and producer who was a successfu ...

" (Buck Raum) #" Stormy Weather" (Ted Koehler & Harold Arlen) #"

I Almost Lost My Mind "I Almost Lost My Mind" is a popular song written by Ivory Joe Hunter and published in 1950. Hunter's recording of the song was a number one hit on the US '' Billboard'' R&B singles chart in that year. Hunter recorded the 12-bar blues style so ...

" (Ivory Joe Hunter) #"Marie Jolie" (R. Francis & Vangelis) #"

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical '' Roberta''. The song was sung in the Broadway show by Tamara Drasin. Its first recorded performance was by Ge ...

" (Otto Harbach & Jerome Kern) #" As Time Goes By" (H. Hupfeld)

Personnel

*Produced and arranged by

. *Guitars: Argyris 'Silver' Koulouris *Saxophone:

*Backing vocals:

and

*Engineers: Raphael Preston and Jess Sutcliffe

Charts

References

{{Authority control 1984 albums Demis Roussos albums Mercury Records albums