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SERGIO DIAS has bronchitis, the result of a flu jab before flying to Britain with Os Mutantes, the band he formed with his older brother and a girlfriend in the 1960s.
He waves it away. “I’ve been sick before,” he tells the audience in Leeds. “Let’s have some fun.”
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