POP/ROCK - Feb. 5, 1987

Stavros Logarides, a Greek composer who claims the hit film theme “Chariots of Fire” was based on one of his melodies, said he had taken more than a year to complain because he had forgotten how his own tune went. Logarides, who is suing Greek-born composer Vangelis for plagiarism, told the High Court in London on Wednesday that he had become conscious of the other tune in 1982, more than a year after the film was released, when an acquaintance pointed out the similarity between “Chariots of Fire” and Logarides’ “The City of Violets,” composed five years earlier. “I did not relate it to ‘The City of Violets’ because I could not remember it that much,” Logarides told the court. Vangelis, whose real name is Evangelos Papathanasiou, denies the plagiarism charge.