Buccaneer Vangelis film
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Damn his music was / is superb
It was useful to pass the time in the training cinema in Kermode Hall at Halton too. Never got tired of the music and it gee’d the students up for a bit more learning,
Before we’d ever heard of the Falklands, there was a documentary on the news programme Nationwide featuring HMS Endurance in Antarctica. ISTR the scenes of their Wasp flying past icebergs used clips from Vangelis’ China album and was one of those moments that encouraged me to fly helos.
I for one saw it as an air cadet on the PR days one saw in the Squadron calendar in 1980. Virtually wanted to be working on dynamic aircraft post seeing that film as a career. Still working on aircraft 42 years later, having seen a Bucc Sqn detachment as my first ever RAF det. Lots of others would likely say the same.
Will quite happily agree with you on that one. A lot of the tracks killed when I got the "Themes" album at Wittering in the very early 90s with the other famous scores he did.
Before we’d ever heard of the Falklands, there was a documentary on the news programme Nationwide featuring HMS Endurance in Antarctica. ISTR the scenes of their Wasp flying past icebergs used clips from Vangelis’ China album and was one of those moments that encouraged me to fly helos.
Some one has paid the royalties so the Hugh Hudson film can be seen again in all its glory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Ry4getknY
I for one saw it as an air cadet on the PR days one saw in the Squadron calendar in 1980. Virtually wanted to be working on dynamic aircraft post seeing that film as a career. Still working on aircraft 42 years later, having seen a Bucc Sqn detachment as my first ever RAF det. Lots of others would likely say the same.
Will quite happily agree with you on that one. A lot of the tracks killed when I got the "Themes" album at Wittering in the very early 90s with the other famous scores he did.
Bob Langley of Pebble Mill fame did it in very early 1980/81. The Vangelis track for the theme tune was "Chung Kou". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3md77gRW1nQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Ry4getknY
I for one saw it as an air cadet on the PR days one saw in the Squadron calendar in 1980. Virtually wanted to be working on dynamic aircraft post seeing that film as a career. Still working on aircraft 42 years later, having seen a Bucc Sqn detachment as my first ever RAF det. Lots of others would likely say the same.
Will quite happily agree with you on that one. A lot of the tracks killed when I got the "Themes" album at Wittering in the very early 90s with the other famous scores he did.
Bob Langley of Pebble Mill fame did it in very early 1980/81. The Vangelis track for the theme tune was "Chung Kou". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3md77gRW1nQ
I’m very grateful to you for digging that link out, I haven’t seen it for 40 odd years, little did I realise that I’d sail there myself in 1982.
During a very similar exercise in the mid-eighties, the Nimrod crew I was flying with, providing Surpic to the Buccs of 12 Sqn thought it was a wheeze to transmit 'To an Unknown Man' after the first broadcast.
Vangelis tracks got me through the ****ty Basrah 903 night shift VAHS / Eng Ops post that no SO2 had the balls to say that is bull. 63 consecutive shifts of 12 Vs 12 night working. I admit the Corporate grunts had it harder.
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Isn't it strange, that some music transports you to, or from, a time and place? It's a pity that such strictures are imposed on us sometimes.
Isn't it strange, that some music transports you to, or from, a time and place? It's a pity that such strictures are imposed on us sometimes.
My first tour was with Lattons Lossie. No leave with out a green card and no GDT course to get one. Girlfriend was 350 miles away. Relationship would never survive the distance. Some words from the Blade Runner film I used directly in loving embraces to the situation we were in. Just watched Blade Runner again. My wife does have a passing resemblance to Sean Young. 😁
Before we’d ever heard of the Falklands, there was a documentary on the news programme Nationwide featuring HMS Endurance in Antarctica. ISTR the scenes of their Wasp flying past icebergs used clips from Vangelis’ China album and was one of those moments that encouraged me to fly helos.
Last edited by MAINJAFAD; 21st May 2022 at 11:23.
Its was actually done by Pebble Mill at One, first shown in very early 1982.. The whole series is on Youtube in one video,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raEhgfwM3OE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raEhgfwM3OE