In a new show, former RPM singer presents a version of “The Cross and the Sword” with technological participation of the late Legião Urbana leader
Started last Friday, 13, in Bradesco Theaterin São Paulothe new tour of Paulo Ricardo. Call Xlthe excursion celebrates the artist’s 40 years of career.
The presentation, which toured several phases of the musician’s trajectory, had a special moment: a performance of “The Cross and the Sword”originally launched with the RPMin a kind of duet with Renato Russo.
It is worth mentioning that in the 1990s the late vocalist of Urban Legion Participated in a rewriting of music with Paulo Ricardo. The version came out on Paulo’s solo album, Brazilian popular rock (1996).
When performing “The Cross and the Sword” In the new tour, Paulo Ricardo has a video and audio record of Renato Russo designed on the big screen while sings an excerpt from the song. Watch below.
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In addition to “The Cross and the Sword”the former singer of RPM played other bands of the band, as “Cold blondes”, “Dawn of the Roraz”, “Pirate Radio” and “Look 43”.
There were also some covers in the repertoire (“Imagine”from John Lennonand “London, London”from Caetano Veloso and consecrated with RPM), news (“The verse”present in the newly released EP Reinvent) and songs little explored throughout your career, as “Just did me good”.
At the request of fans on social networks, Paulo Ricardo also played for the first time the hitherto unpublished on stage “It’s time to fight”. The song is present in the animation movie Spirit – The Indomitable Steedlaunched in 2002.
After the debut in São Paulo, the tour Xl will also go through cities like Ribeirão Preto, Victory, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Bethlehem, Brasilia, Curitiba and Belo Horizonte. Check out the setlist executed in São Paulo. The full schedule is available in LINKTR.EE/PauloRicardooficial.
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2. Real life
3. Pearl
4. Partners
5. Hero Made in Brazli
5. Juvenilia
6.
7. No more longing
8. Two
9. And I won’t leave you anymore
10. Beautiful dream
11. It just did me good
12. I arrived to stay
13. At one step of eternity
14. London, London
15. It’s time to fight
16. Astral Flowers
17. Imagine
18. Crazy Little Thing Called Love / Like a Rolling Stone
19. All for nothing
20. The cross and the sword
21. Revolutions per minute
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23. The verse
24. Pirate Radio
Bis:
25. Look 43
Paulo Ricardo talks about new tour of Rolling Stone Brazil
In an interview with Rolling Stone BrazilPaulo Ricardo explains that the name of tour Xl It refers to number 40 in Roman numerals, but also carries the double sense of Extra Large.
“This next show will probably be the biggest I have ever done, so I can accommodate 40 years of career and music. It has this double meaning. For now it is a dream, with several ‘dreams’ inside – songs I dreamed of making live, reconquisers, like first place on the stops in 2025, and feats as I did with [Rogério] Flausine. ”
Despite the commemorative proposal, the artist avoids the purely nostalgic tone. He reinforces:
“I didn’t want the 40s to be celebrated with just a retrospective look. I wanted to have something new, hard, telling the future. This show is like a musical exhibition of all the phases of my life, but always connected to the present.”
The chat is available in full on Youtube. Watch below!
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Source: Rollingstone
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