Copinya de Volta Verda 23/01/18. Jon and Vangelis: The Friends of Mr. Cairo

pgm 435 Q. How did your collaboration with Vangelis operate? Did you write your lyrics first, after which he produced the music? How did you both know when every song was the best it could be? A. We created every song spontaneously, sort of ‘chance music’; he would play, I would sing along with him with very ‘open’ ideas in his studio…then after one song finished we would rest a little, then we would try another idea, and so on…eventually we had about 3 or 4 musical ideas to choose from at the end of the session, we would do this for 2 or 3 days…then we would listen to what we had, and pick the best ideas. I would go home at the end of the week with songs to write lyrics to and Vangelis would start producing the music around those ‘first takes’…that’s how we created all our albums.