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Festival Brazil, LondonAlmost exactly 40 years ago, a bunch of frazzled Brazilians made their way to the stage at the Isle Of Wight festival, and played an impromptu set. Temporarily displaced from their Ladbroke Grove squat – and more permanently displaced from their home country – this was a group that included freaks, dancers, members of Hawkwind, and at the centre of it all, Gilberto Gil. A leading light in Tropicália, the cultural movement that revolutionised Brazil's youth, then Gil w...

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