PAVLOS SIDIROPOULOS, 1983

Pavlos Sidiropoulos (July 27, 1948 – 6 December 1990) , the legendary Greek rock singer,

Photographs by Manolis Daloukas,1983

Copyright Manolis Daloukas.

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John Spartakos. Interview, 1999.

John Spartakos (Γιάννης Σπάρτακος) was one of the greatest musicians of Greece. His song “Greek Bolero” (Θα σε πάρω να φύγουμε), is the first greek song that became an international hit, 1944. John Spartakos talks with the journalist Manolis Daloukas, 1999.

The Flying Shack, headquarters of the Greek Existentialists. Athens, 1953.

 Flying Shack (Ιπτάμενη Παράγκα) was the name of the wooden house of Simos Tsapnidis (Σίμος Τσαπνίδης), leader of the Greek Existentialists. Here, hundreds of youths used to hang out, from 1953 to 1956. They formed an art group, deep in the heart ofAthens.

The group, involved theater, poetry, dance, visual arts and music. They danced and played a strange kind of music, a mixture of boogie and swing, but with improvisations, in a dada spirit.

Many traveling artists and political fugitives, found a refuge here.  Police termed the Flying Sack, a “home of orgies” and closed it, by 1955. Simos Tsapnidis, fled Greece, in 1956, and traveled all over Europe, for 20 years

Morka- Just Like Ann (Dorian Kokas).

Morka (Dorian Kokas, Michalis Orphanides, George Tambakopoulos, Antonis Bravos, Paul Papadeas and Pamela Leake) was one of the best groups of the psychedelic period in Greece (1970-73).
Leader of the group was Dorian Kokas.
All members were greeks, except Pamela, who fled England, after she finished school and traveled  to Greece, but then, she never went back

Nikolas Asimos. Athens, 1983

 Nikolas Asimos (Νικόλας Άσιμος) (1949-1988) and crew at Kosmopolitan (summer theater), Athens, Greece. Asimos (the man with the white shirt) was the leader of the art group KROK, that flourished in Athens between 1976 and 1988.

 Krok primarily involved music, theater, visual arts, and poetry.
 The man with the cane, is Litis (Λήτης), a punk-rock  singer. Man with the guitar is Tolis Voultzatis, and the girl is Litsa Perraki).
A sound document of Asimos's live performance, is  Romios (The Greek), a song born out of Asimos's negative reaction to the horrors of some "greeks" (video at the bottom of the post) . 

Photographs by Manolis Daloukas, 1983

    Romios (Ο Ρωμιός)
    Live at summer theater Kosmopolitan, 1983.

The Mermaid Cafe. Matala, Crete. 1970

This is the original Mermaid Cafe, a small restaurant and cafe, at Matala, Crete.

The sign of Mermaid (top picture) was a painting on the wall, made by Penelope, the sister of the owner, Stelios.

Greeks protesting against greek military regime. Paris, 1968

All Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1967
Copyright Manolis Daloukas
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On April 21, 1968, at Parisian streets, hundreds of Greeks, protested against greek military regime (Junta). Most of them were students (and a part members of  Rigas Ferraios organization). They were carrying Greek flags,and protest banners with written slogans like "Vive la Resistance du peuple Grec" .

Greeks protesting against greek military junta. London, May of 1967

Photograph by Simos Tsapnidis

Death of Alexandros Panagoulis- Newspaper at newsstand of Omonia Square. Athens, Greece.1th of May, 1976

Man looking at Sun thru smoked Glass-Eclipse of the Sun, Greece, 29 of April, 1976

Poster :WANTED Henry Kissinger For 6000 Murders.1976

WANTED Henry Kissinger For 6000 Murders. Poster of Kissinger for sale at a newsstand. Omonia Square. Athens, Greece. 1976.