Poll (band)
| Poll | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Athens, Greece |
| Genres | Pop |
| Labels | Polydor Records |
| Members |
Kostas Tournas Robert Williams Stavros Logarides Kostas Papaioannou Nasia Sandi Despoina Glezou |
Poll was a Greek pop group founded in 1971 by Kostas Tournas, Robert Williams, Stavros Logarides and Kostas Papaioannou. In Greece, it is considered a historic group of the 1970s with pioneering lyrics. Poll is a legendary pop group which resonated with the Greek youth of the 70s, and its songs are viewed as "some of the best songs, which have remained in the history of Greek music". Poll is the most commercially successful Greek band of all time.
Kostas Tournas and Robert Williams were childhood friends who started their musical cooperation in 1964 when they formed the group Teenagers. As a group, the two recorded their first song "You don’t love me".
In 1967, they changed the name of the group to "Dinos and the X-Rays" but they separated soon after since Tournas had to go to the army and Williams went to Rhodesia where he stayed for two years.
They eventually reunited and along with Stavros Logarides, they formed another group which at first was not intended to be a professional group. Ultimately, they named their band "Poll", after first considering the names "Paul" (after Paul McCartney) and "Omega Limited". Poll was one of the first pop groups of Greece.
The motto of Poll was Poll is love and their logo was the stylised outline of a dove. Their first concert was at the Pedion tou Areos in Athens.Poll also started appearing at the popular Athens music club Kyttaro presenting folk rock songs influenced from the hippie culture which soon became very popular among the youth. They also appeared at Elatirio presenting music influenced by Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young and featuring two new members, vocalist Nasia Sandi, and drummer Kostas Papaionannou. At Elatirio, they were also joined by vocalist Despoina Glezou who later left the group to pursue a "more personalised role".
The group started recitals at a home which was owned by the grandmother of Kostas Charalambides, who was a salesman for the Greek record company Elladisk, a subsidiary of Dutch multinational Philips. Charalambides provided a demo of the band to Christos Fasolas, who was working for Elladisk in the area of copyright law, and they eventually got a record contract.
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