The recording was made in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and also features career hits
The official profile of Rita Lee (1947-2023) on Instagram announced that an unreleased album by the singer, entitled Rita Lee live at Luna Parkwill be released soon. The Universal record label, responsible for the release, has not yet released further details on the project, but it is a recording of a performance that the singer and her band gave at the Argentine gymnasium in November 2002.
The basis of the show is the record Here, there, everywherepublished by the singer a year earlier with Beatles songs, in original versions and others with Portuguese lyrics. One of them is My lifeversion for In my life.
Recently, when Paul McCartney performed in Sao Paulo, North American DJ Chris Holmes, responsible for the audience’s warm-up set, played My life with Rita’s voice. The recording was highly applauded by the audience, both at the beginning and at the end.
The songs that will appear on the album have not yet been announced. But, in addition to the songs of the English quartet, Rita also sang some hits from her career on the show, such as Dance with me, Sweet vampire, You Mania AND Perfume launcher. He also included the bolero Besame Mucho and performed a duet with Argentine musician and composer Charly Garcia. Together they sang, in English, Love me, do it AND Help!both by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
When Rita made this presentation in Buenos Aires, from which she took the name Bossa’n Beatlessame name as the album Here, there and everywhere received in Argentina, it had been 36 years since he played for the public there. The show became a television special presented in Brazil by the pay channel Film & Arts.
At the time, an article in Estadão reported that Rita brought six thousand people to Luna Park and that the singer stayed in the country for four days to, in addition to the show, participate in other commitments, such as an afternoon of autographs and receiving a gift. Gold record for sales of his expressive albums.
Source: Terra
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