Aferocious heatwave was sweeping South America, and samba composer Beto Gago (Stuttering Bob) saw only one thing to do: pop out for an ice-cold beer with his drinking buddy Joel Saideira – Last Order Joel.
“Damn, it was grim around here,” the 76-year-old musician grimaced as he stood outside his home in Irajá – reputedly Rio’s hottest postcode – last week with a bohemian’s potbelly spilling out over his lilac shorts.
“It was bloody miserable. Even Lucifer was called Juninho Thybau.