Genre
Easy listening and pop. The album showcases Roussos's distinctive falsetto voice against lush orchestral arrangements, moving between romantic ballads and Mediterranean-inflected songs, characteristic of European easy listening of the early 1970s.
Release
Released in 1973 by Philips Records.
Production
Produced by Demis Roussos himself. Recording engineers were Roger Roche and Didier Pitois. The sessions took place between March and December 1972 and January 1973 at Studio Gaîté and Studios des Dames, Paris, France, with additional work at Phonogram Studios, Hamburg, Germany.
Reception
Forever and Ever topped the albums charts in Germany, the Netherlands, and Norway, and reached number two in Austria. The title single — released separately — became a massive European hit, reaching number one in Belgium and number two in the Netherlands; when reissued as part of The Roussos Phenomenon EP in 1976, it reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. The album received platinum certification in the Netherlands and Greece, and gold in France. Roussos was awarded more than a hundred gold, platinum, and diamond albums and cassettes throughout his career and earned an entry in the Guinness Book of Records among the personalities of show business of the 1970s and 1980s.
Demis Roussos
Artemios "Demis" Ventouris-Roussos (June 15, 1946, Alexandria, Egypt – January 25, 2015, Athens, Greece) was a Greek singer of Egyptian birth who became one of the most commercially successful European pop artists of the 1970s. Raised in a Greek family in Alexandria, he moved to Greece after the Suez Crisis of 1956 and co-founded the progressive rock group Aphrodite's Child alongside Vangelis and Loukas Sideras in 1967. The group achieved major success in Europe with "Rain and Tears" (1968), before disbanding in 1972 following their cult masterpiece 666. Roussos then launched a solo career defined by his remarkable falsetto, flamboyant kaftan-wearing image, and a string of pan-European hit albums. He continued collaborating with Vangelis, contributing vocals to the Blade Runner soundtrack (1982). He sold over 60 million records worldwide and was decorated as a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by France in 2013.
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