Visiting Brazil, Rock icon tells as an album of a national music genius marked his marriage to Sheryl Goddard
The relationship between Alice Cooper and Brazil was strongly marked by the pioneering show that the artist performed in 1974, in São Paulo. He was the first icon of heavy music to land in the country, which at the time was not yet on the route of major international tours.
However, this story did not stop there. Alice came back other times, including to play in Rock in Rioin 2015 and 2017. More recently, on June 14, he was here at the festival Best of Blues and Rock.
In this recent visit, the Shock Rock star added another remarkable episode of his connection with Brazil. In a press conference before the show at Ibirapuera ParkAlice revealed that a disk of Tom Jobim packed his honeymoon in 1976 with Sheryl Goddardyour wife to this day.
Alice spoke (transcription via Alpha FM):
“When my wife and I got married in 1976, the album of our honeymoon was Wavefrom Antônio Carlos Jobim. This was our favorite album at the time. Every time I hear any music of him, I remember our honeymoon. “
Tom Jobim and the Wave Album
Launched in 1967, Wave It is the fifth studio album of Rio de Janeiro Antonio Carlos Jobim. The disc was recorded in United States with American musicians and left the label A&M Records.
With repertoire based on jazz and entirely composed by Tom Jobim, Wave was acclaimed by critics, especially songs such as “Sad”, “Look to the Sky” and the title track.
In 2007, the Rolling Stone Brazil elected Wave as the 92nd best national album on the list with “The 100 largest records of Brazilian music “.
Alice Cooper’s first visit to Brazil
Alice Cooper’s inaugural visit to Brazil took place when everything “was still weeds”: between March and April 1974, long before the largest country in South America became a frequent route of international shows. Artists such as Bill Haley and CARLOS SANTANA They had already appeared here, but Cooper was responsible for the first major strange rock show in national territory.
At the time, he held three performances in São Paulo (all at the Anhembi Exhibition Salon) and two others in Rio de Janeiro (one in Canecão and one at Maracanãzinho Gymnasium). One of the commitments in the state capital even beaten a record proudly for Alice in an interview with Igor Miranda for Rolling Stone Brazil:
“It is still in Guinness Book as the largest audience in a closed place of all time: 158 thousand people [no Salão de Exposições do Anhembi]. We have good memories of the Brazilian public, especially the time we went to Rock in Rio, as they also love Hollywood Vampires. Now imagine putting 160,000 people in a closed place. It is an entire city. If everyone clap, it is so loud that you don’t believe it. To this day we talked about that show in Brazil, it was a huge and magnificent event. ”
The other visits brought together massive audiences as usual. Regardless of this, Vincent Furnier guarantees:
“If anyone tapped your eyes and spoke, ‘Let’s not tell you where you are,’ when you’re on stage, you would know you’re in Brazil. It’s always a huge audience.”
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Source: Rollingstone
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