Thessaloniki on Sunday, at the age of 63. Papazoglou gave a long battle against cancer, while his wife and their two children stood by his side.
Papazoglou had left the hospital over the past few days and died at his family home.
He wrote some of the best and most frequently played songs on the radio of the past 20 years. He stood out both for his unique style -he always wore jeans and had a red bandana around in his neck - but also for his simple character. The Greek audience loved his concerts which were jam-packed.
He was born on March 20, 1948 in Thessaloniki. Papazoglou made his first band in 1965. For a little time he moved to Aachen in western Germany with his band "Zealot".
In 1977 Donyssis Savvopoulos invited himto participate in Acharnees, a cycle of songs and stage acts based on the ancient comedy by Aristophanes. There he met Manolis Rassoulis and the two along with Savvopoulos and Nikos Xydakis. A year later he released the infamous 'Ekdikisi tis Gyftias' - ('The revenge of the Gypsies'). This work which made Papazoglou famous, is the most representative piece of what he and Rassoulis intended to bring in the Greek music scene. A mix of rock and blues with greek traditional music and rempetiko whick received immediate acceptance by audiences and had a remarkable influence on the course of Greek music in the decades that followed.
