Helô Pinheiro: the woman from Ipanema

How does it feel to have inspired one of the world's most famous songs? As the track turns 50, Jonathan Watts meets Helô PinheiroIn the early 1960s, a 17-year-old girl called Helô Pinheiro would walk past the Veloso bar on the beachfront of Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, every day. She was "tall and tanned and young and lovely" – and she was regaled by the men who drank there."When they saw me, they would whistle and shout out, 'Hey beautiful girl! Come over here,'" says Pinheiro, the girl from I...

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