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‘It feels like being in hell’: Rio roasts in spring heatwave

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.

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