Then, on May 15, 2010, in Caracas, Venezuela, everything stopped. Cerati suffered an ischemic stroke backstage after a concert. In 2011, as he lay in a Buenos Aires clinic with a guarded prognosis, the music industry decided to pay tribute in the only way it knew how: compiling the hits.
On a long drive at sunset, with the windows down, singing “Adiós” at the top of your lungs—not as a goodbye, but as a thank you. Gustavo Cerati - -Grandes Exitos- -2011-
Ultimately, Grandes Éxitos (2011) is a time capsule of a specific, agonizing year. It captures the voice of a man who had just delivered the two strongest rock albums of his late career, only to have that voice silenced forever. To listen to it is to celebrate the music, but it is impossible to ignore the ghost in the machine. Then, on May 15, 2010, in Caracas, Venezuela,