In 1969 the young singer-songwriters Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil were expelled from military-ruled Brazil. They made their way to London – then the global capital of youth culture – where they spent the next two and a half years in exile. [….] This, the first of of three blog posts, explains the background of Caetano’s and Gil’s departure from Brazil.

http://theworldelsewhere.com/2015/10/15/london-london-brazils-caetano-veloso-and-gilberto-gil-in-exile-part-1/