英语听力:自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—15(在线收听) |
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 approaches a policeman,
He seems so pleased to please them.
It’s good, at least, to live and I agree.
In London, it was peaceful, no policemen would, you know, harass you in the streets and music was very interesting, you know. That’s where things were happening. You know we knew we loved the Beatles from, from here and the Rolling Stone, then we knew about, you know, Pink Floyd, we had
heard Pink Floyd, other things, you know, pop rock, British, especially Beatles and stones and Traffic.
You are the reason I’ve been wait, so long and long.
Somebody holds the key.
Well, I’m near the end and I just ain’t got the time,
Well, I’m wasted and I can’t find the way home.
And then the reggae, the West Indian scene, sort of starting in Notting Hill, we caught he first moments of that, of that things happening.
So it was the right place to be … but still, first year, I was mostly depressed.
Even so, Veloso and Gil made the most of their time in exile.
In 1970, they were among the crowds at the Isle of Wight festival, where they were invited to make an
Impromptu appearance accompanied by a group of naked friends, draped in red plastic. |
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