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Gil and Veloso arrived in London as exiles in 1969 and stayed for over two years. They became actively involved in the London music scene and they both wrote and recorded in English. Caetano even praised the London police. Where to go, A group approa...
I didnt think they would put us in prison, you know. They told us: the military authorities want to speak to you, to ask you some questions. And I thought they were going to ask us: why did you join the parades? Why did you do this or that? What does...
A song by Caetano Veloso expressed the anger of the times and became a Tropicalia anthem, E Proibido Proibir, prohibiting is prohibited, a slogan taken from the student/ upheavals in France. The footage of him singing the song at the 1968 TV global s...
The timing was right for a new internationally influenced musical movement. 1968 was a year of global upheavals and rock music provided the soundtrack. In communist Czechoslovakia, Soviet tanks rolled in to end Dubceks experiment in socialism with a...
I think we were playing exactly what the Beatles did. We were, we thought that we were playing rock'n'roll, you know. I think Brazil is such a kaleidoscope of information, especially then. There was no information, so we used to pick up music from, t...
He was the embryo of the very thing we were trying to do consciously. He had started with bossa nova, and he had added rhythm'n'blues and rock'n'roll to his thing. And he had a new synthesis that prefigured everything the Tropicalistas wanted to, to...
The main aim of Tropicalism was really shake the environment, the musical and cultural environment. This small group from Bahia thought that violence of our situation and the importance of mass culture had a lot in common, you know, political violenc...
This became known as the festival of booing. Roberto Carlos, the most successful pop star in Brazilian history and the host of a highly successful TV music show, was of course given a hard time. And the winner, predictably enough, was a singer associ...