Pavlos Sidiropoulos (; 27 July 1948 – 6 December 1990) was a Greek musician noted for combining rock music with Greek music. He is considered one of the pillars of Greek rock due to his involvement so early in its foundation. In particular, Flou (1976), an album produced with his band Spyridoula, had a major impact on the rock scene in Greece. Early life Pavlos Sidiropoulos was born on 27 July 1948 in Athens, Greece to Konstantinos and Ioanna "Jenny" Sidiropoulos. His father was born in Sokhumi, Russia (present-day Abkhazia) into a wealthy Pontic family that cultivated and sold tobacco. He later established ELFOT, which at the time was the only company selling photography paper in Greece. Pavlos' mother Jenny was from Heraklion, Crete. Through her, he was the great-grandson of George Zorbas, the inspiration for the 1946 novel Zorba the Greek and nephew of Elli Alexiou. His maternal aunt Galatea was an author and was married to Nikos Kazantzakis, author of Zorba the Greek, and later to poet Markos Avgeris. Sidiropoulos lived with his family in the Kypseli and Patisia neighborhoods and in the suburb Galatsi of Athens. He had a younger sister, Melina. He completed three years of mathematics studies at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki starting in 1967 but left to pursue music and because he felt his education was stymied by the strict censorship introduced by the Greek junta. While at university, he lived with songwriter Vangelis Germanos and played percussion in a band. Career Sidiropoulos' music career began in 1970 in Thessaloniki when he and Pantelis Delleyannidis formed Damon and Phintias, which took its name from the Greek legend exemplifying friendship. They merged with the band Bourboulia in 1972 and it was here that Sidiropoulos began experimenting by combining rock and Greek music. Bourboulia disbanded in 1974 due to issues with censorship; Delleyannidis left for England afterwards, thus dissolving Damon and Phintias as well. Sidiropoulos worked at his dad's paper factory for a few years and variously studied solfeggio, counterpoint, and harmony. He also collaborated with Yannis Markopoulos on one of the three albums they worked on together throughout Sidiropoulos' career: Thessalikos Kyklos (Thessalian Circle), 1974; Oropedio (Plateau), 1976; and Tolmiri Epikinonia (Daring Communication), 1987. In 1976, he formed Spyridoula with brothers Vassilis and Niko Spyropoulos. Though the band had dissolved by the end of the 1970s, they released the album Flou (1978), still considered a