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Soda Stereo Looks Back on 40 Years — And Reveals That an Unreleased Song Is Coming
Soda Stereo reveals a new unreleased song is coming and looks back on 40 years.
When Argentine musicians Gustavo Cerati, Zeta Bosio and Charly Alberti released their debut album as Soda Stereo 40 years ago, regional success was the ceiling for most Latin rock bands. “Back in the early ‘80s, we had a huge musical void in Latin America,” recalls Miguel Gálvez, a former radio journalist in Mexico who launched a petition to get Soda Stereo inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. But, well, it was the first thing we did.” Alberti found the track on a tape that also included a longer version, with different lyrics, of “Por Qué No Puedo Ser del Jet Set?” — the first song on the first album, in which the singer asks why he can’t be part of the jet-set lifestyle.
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