A Head Full of Gold: A Discussion with Yiannis Angelakas

Abstract

This chapter deals with a life so rich that it already appears to last forever, as is often the case with people whose work is understood to be a watershed in the history, in this case of Greek popular music. It owes a lot to Yiannis Angelakas, whose contribution to the “final cut” - in film-making terms - of transcribed discussions was immensely helpful. Yiannis Angelakas began his musical trajectories as the singer of the Thessaloniki-based punk Rock group Trypes which became immensely popular during the 1980s and 1990s. In the midst of the 1990s the degeneration and stupefaction of neohellenic “socialist” society was successfully completed. The media and the private TV-channels of the upper urban class imposed their vulgarity and fake-glamorous aesthetics next to the cheap popular song as official national culture. The big-bang eventually took place in 1993 with fourth album, Ennia Pliromena Tragoudia. © 2019 Taylor and Francis.