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Lefteris (Eleftherios) Papadopoulos (Greek: Λευτέρης Παπαδόπουλος; born 14 November 1935) is a Greek lyricist,^[1] writer and journalist.

Lefteris Papadopoulos was born in Athens, Greece on 14 November 1935.He was the son of Greek Pontian refugees, with a father from a village near Bursa in today’s Turkey and a mother from a village near Novorossiysk in Russia.^[2][3] His parents were expelled in 1924 during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey. He enrolled at the Law School of the University of Athens but stopped during his third year in order to work as a journalist. Since 1959 Papadopoulos has worked in the newspaper Ta Nea and has become a popular columnist over time.

Papadopoulos became involved with music in 1963. He has written the lyrics for about 1,200 songs and has co-worked with nearly all of the well-known musicians, composers and singers of his generation, namely Mikis Theodorakis, Stavros Xarhakos, Manos Loizos, Stavros Koujioumtzis, Mimis Plessas, Christos Nikolopoulos, Stelios Kazantzidis, Grigoris Bithikotsis, George Dalaras, Marinella, Viki Mosholiou and others. In 1969, composer Mimis Plessas’s work of songs „O Dromos“, to which Papadopoulos contributed the lyrics, became the fastest selling Greek album. Of all the creative partnerships that Papadopoulos has had with Greek composers, that of his close friend Manos Loizos is considered a landmark of his career.

Papadopoulos contributed lyrics to some Greek songs from 1960 to 1990. He also wrote a few literary books, and one about the lyricist Eftichia Papagianopoulou. He has presented various programmes about Greek Music on television; the most recent, entitled „Makrines Filies“ (Remote Friendships), was broadcast on National Television, ERT.

Papadopoulos is married to a theatrical director and has a son and a daughter as well as two grandchildren.

Michail „Mikis“ Theodorakis (Greek: Μιχαήλ „Μίκης“ Θεοδωράκης [ˈmicisθeoðoˈɾacis]; 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works.

He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973). He was a three-time BAFTA nominee, winning for Z. For the score in Serpico , he earned Grammy nominations.Furthermore, for the score to Zorba the Greek, with its ‚Zorba’s Dance‘, he was Golden Globe nominated.

He composed the „Mauthausen Trilogy“, also known as „The Ballad of Mauthausen“, which has been described as the „most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust“ and possibly his best work. Up until his death, he was viewed as Greece’s best-known living composer. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.

Politically, he was associated with the left because of his long-standing ties to the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). He was an MP for the KKE from 1981 to 1990. Despite this however, he ran as an independent candidate within the centre-right New Democracy party in 1989, in order for the country to emerge from the political crisis that had been created due to the numerous scandals of the government of Andreas Papandreou. He helped establish a large coalition between conservatives, socialists and leftists. In 1990 he was elected to the parliament (as in 1964 and 1981), became a government minister under Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and fought against drugs and terrorism and for culture, and education. He continued to speak out in favour of leftist causes, Greek–Turkish–Cypriot relations, and against the War in Iraq. He was a key voice against the 1967–1974 Greek junta, which imprisoned him and banned his songs

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