BRAZIL\MOURNS ROCK BAND\5 musicians, crew killed in plane crash.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Fans lined up 10-deep outside a morgue morgue (morg) a place where dead bodies may be kept for identification or until claimed for burial. morgue n. Sunday to mourn mourn v. mourned, mourn·ing, mourns v.intr. 1. To feel or express grief or sorrow. See Synonyms at grieve. 2. one of Brazil's hottest rock bands, whose members were killed when their private plane crashed into a mountainside. All five members of the band, Mamonas Assassinas Mamonas Assassinas was a satirical Brazilian pop/rock band. They were a huge hit in 1995 among children, teenagers and even adults - probably due to the crude humor in their lyrics. , two assistants, and the pilot and co-pilot were killed Saturday when a chartered Lear jet crashed outside Sao Paulo. There were no survivors. The band was returning from a sold-out concert Saturday in Brasilia and was to fly Sunday to Portugal to work on a second album. Its first album, "Mamonas Assassinas," sold 1.9 million copies since its release last year. So many fans gathered outside a roped-off morgue in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, that troops were sent in to keep order. Other fans lined the streets and waved white handkerchiefs from apartment windows as ambulances carrying the bodies drove by. Some wore black armbands. Brazilian radio and television stations carried live reports along the route and at the morgue Sunday, just as they had done as troops and firemen pulled the bodies from the wreckage at the crash site. In Guarulhos, a town just outside Sao Paulo where band members got their start, the city council planned an all-night vigil
The All-night vigil is a service of the Eastern Orthodox Church consisting of an aggregation of the three canonical hours of Vespers, Matins, and the First Hour. around the band members' coffins. Thousands of fans lined up at the city council building Sunday to be the first to bid farewell. Funeral services were set for today. The cause of the crash was not determined. The jet hit a mountain in the Serra da Cantareira ? ? D This article is in better condition on a foreign wikipedia. The following article needs to be translated into English: . The Serra da Cantareira is a Brazilian mountain range to the north of the city of São Paulo in the São Paulo state.. range moments after traffic control at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos Airport gave the pilot approval to begin landing. Appealing mainly to teen-agers, Mamonas Assassinas used raunchy raun·chy adj. raun·chi·er, raun·chi·est Slang 1. a. Obscene, lewd, or vulgar: "[He] lyrics to promote a youthful image. Band members killed in the crash were Alexander Alves, 24; Julio Rasec, 27; Samuel Reoli, 22; his brother Sergio, 26; and Bento A data structure used to store embedded documents in an OpenDoc compound document. Bento, which stands for lunch box in Japanese, provides a "container" to hold the data and a format for defining its contents. Hinoto, 25. The band had given 160 concerts in the past six months, and its hit songs - "Animal World," "Naked in Santos," and "Gay Robocop" - have been radio standards here for months. One song, "The Turnaround," about a Portuguese dance, was temporarily banned from the radio last month because of anatomical references a federal agency considered obscene. Distraught parents called radio stations Sunday, asking how to deal with their children. "My kids have locked themselves in their room, crying and listening to the Mamonas. These are my kids' idols; what do I say?" asked Carla Lima Santos, a mother of four. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Four members of Brazil's rock band Mamonas Assassinas, Julio Rasec, Samuel Reoli, Alexander Alves and Bento Hinoto, from left, wave to fans after a concert in Brasilia on Saturday. Associated Press |
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