Mick Hartley

It's been a while since we've had any Portuguese fado here (nine years, in fact). So a warm welcome back to Amalia Rodrigues, the undoubted Rainha do Fado. No date on this, but sometime in the early Sixties I think:

It's a bit of a shock round the minute mark when the camera trundles into view behind her, stage left, like some alien from Dr Who. No matter.

Here's Dulce Pontes, with a spectacular live performance in 2004. She'd recorded the song for the 1996 movie Primal Fear.