Miguel Araújo is rock and roll. It’s rock and roll because among its idols are mythical figures like Mark Knopfler or Eric Clapton, the artists who made him want to pick up a guitar and explain to the world that living is not living without having a body with six strings in your hand. It’s rock and roll because, tonight at the Meo Arena, he had by his side the “father of Portuguese rock” (Rui Veloso) and one of the Portuguese people to whom the label “number one Beatles fan” sticks best – João Só. It’s rock and roll because, as he told Expresso in 2017, there were times when he wore long hair and a Motörhead t-shirt. It’s rock and roll because that’s the genre it plays: guitar, bass, drums, some saxophone and trombone, like the rockers primordial and those who later copied them and gave them another freshness, like Bruce Springsteen. It’s rock and roll because Araújo says it’s rock and roll and if we don’t trust a person who fills the biggest concert hall in the country, who will we trust?
