Editing Caetano Veloso (section)

=== Imprisonment and exile ===
In October 1968, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil performed at Sucata club in Rio de Janeiro, with [[Hélio Oiticica|Hélio Oiticica's]] poem-flag {{Lang|pt|[[Seja marginal, seja herói]]}} displayed on stage.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Cámara |first=Mario |date=2016-01-11 |title=El artista plástico Hélio Oiticica: escritor y fotógrafo |url=https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/Outra/article/view/2176-8552.2016n21p93 |journal=Outra Travessia |language=pt |volume=1 |issue=21 |pages=93–104 |doi=10.5007/2176-8552.2016n21p93 |issn=2176-8552|hdl=11336/106342 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso: the story of a friendship |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/story/gilberto-gil-and-caetano-veloso-the-story-of-a-friendship/egUBi8tjNx-CbQ |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=Google Arts & Culture |language=en}}</ref> The journalist {{Ill|Randal Juliano|pt}} of [[RecordTV]] propagated a story that Caetano and Gil had sung the [[Brazilian National Anthem]] in subversive parody.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Lichote |first=Leonardo |date=2020-09-14 |title=A ditadura brasileira contra Caetano Veloso: os arquivos completos da repressão |url=https://brasil.elpais.com/cultura/2020-09-14/a-ditadura-brasileira-contra-caetano-veloso-os-arquivos-completos-da-repressao.html |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=El País Brasil |language=pt-BR}}</ref> The two musicians were arrested without trial 27 December 1968—shortly after the military state had passed on 13 December [[Institutional Act Number Five]], which suspended [[habeas corpus]].<ref name=":0" /> On 23 January 1969, Veloso underwent interrogation by Major Hilton Justino Ferreira, who asked Caetano whether he had sung the national anthem of Brazil to the melody of "[[Caetano Veloso (1968 album)|Tropicália]]," to which Caetano responded that it would be impossible because the verses of the Brazilian anthem are [[decasyllable]] and the verses of "Tropicalia" only have [[Octosyllable|eight poetic syllables]].<ref name=":0" /> 

Veloso and Gil were both arrested in February 1969 and held in prison for three months, followed by a further four months under house arrest; they were eventually released on condition that they leave the country, and spent the next few years in [[exile]]. He said that "they didn't imprison us for any song or any particular thing that we said," ascribing the government's reaction to its unfamiliarity with the cultural phenomenon of Tropicália—they seemed to say "We might as well put them in prison."<ref>{{cite news |first=Jon |last=Pareles |author-link=Jon Pareles |title=At Lunch with Caetano Veloso; Lots of Rebellion and a Little Hot Sauce For the Spirited Bob Dylan of Brazil |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEEDF113FF93AA3575AC0A964958260 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=9 September 1992 |access-date=16 May 2008 }}</ref> The federal police detained the two and flew them to an unknown destination. Finally, Veloso and Gil lived out their exile in London, England. When Caetano was asked about his experience there he says, "London felt dark, and I felt far away from myself." Nevertheless, the two improved their music there and were asked to make a musical production with the producer Ralph Mace.<ref name="schnabel" />