Host Marco Werman says it was not too long ago when Brazil was a dictatorship. As musical testimony, he takes us back to 1971 when Brazilian legend Caetano Veloso, in exile in London following his arrest and imprisonment by the dictatorship, composed “London London,” a song of loneliness and longing for his home country of Brazil.
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