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At the beginning of the Reagan era, metalworker Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was prisoner in Dops of São Paulo. Cartola, Vinicius de Moraes, Hélio Oiticica, and Alfred Hitchcock died. With thousands of ideas in his head and a young timetable in hand, Nelson Motta commanded, on TV Bandeirantes, Mocidade Independente, a program, which revealed to the great public, names like Lulu Santos, Gang 90, Arrigo Barnabé, Itamar Assumpção, and Eduardo Dusek. They were the modern lads of the 80’s.
Gal Costa remained on the road, still traveling with the mega-success Gal Tropical – a show presented in crowded gymnasiums all over Brazil. Her manager Guilherme Araújo and the record company Polygram opt to record a thematic album, which would not interfere much in the singer’s busy calendar. In October, the album Aquarela do Brasil, is released, returning to the work of Ary Barroso. Also a gold record, the LP has participation of Caetano Veloso on the track Na Baixa do Sapateiro.
But 1980 ended with a shot, which continues to echo in everybody’s memory. On the 8th of December, John Lennon was assassinated in front of the building in which he lived, on Central Park West, New York. Long live Yoko Ono.
Eduardo Logullo
translation: Kirsten Weinoldt
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