Marcos Valle is even radder...

WoimsahWoimsah 1,734 Posts
edited October 2010 in Strut Central
SO rad.

Pretty crazy story that I just stumbled upon. Did everyone already know this?!?!

The way Marcos Valle tells it, Marlon Brando had been playing the bongos all night, very badly. Quincy Jones tried to intercede, and Rock Hudson and Vincent Price didn't look too pleased, either. So when a drunken Brando later made a pass at Valle's wife she was his type, see, with long, brown hair he saw red. Actually, he didn't see anything at all, because they were about to leave and his back was to the door. But when Anna Maria told him that Brando had just mauled her, and he turned round to find the actor reaching out towards her hair again, Valle threw a punch. Whether Marlon went down he doesn't know, because a crowd of stars closed in to stop the fight and in any case, he was out of there.

The occasion was a Hollywood party in the bossa nova years of the mid-Sixties, when Marcos Valle currently provider of retro Brazilian grooves to the international clubbing fraternity was touring with Sergio Mendes and Brasil 65. This was just before Valle wrote his big hit "Summer Samba".

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  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    Marcos Valle is one of my favorite musicians ever, and this just adds a little luster.

    b/w

    Bad bongo playing should never go unpunished,

  • ReynaldoReynaldo 6,054 Posts
    What was he supposed to do? He pretty much had to punch Brando if the dude was touching his wife..

  • TDLT02TDLT02 149 Posts
    Had the pleaure of going out for dinner with him back in 2001, Italian restaurant in Leblon.

    He was with his third wife at the time, nice guy who was friendly and made time for a gringo, also seemed to enjoy the red wine that we had that evening...LOL!

  • Didn't know that story, thanks for posting it! Marcos Valle comes off as the quintessential Carioca!

    b/w

    Go and buy his new album "Estatica" on Far Out. Easily the best album he's done for them so far IMO and just as enjoyable as his 70s output. The cover for it is pretty similar to Vento Sul's as well.
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