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Paul Simon's 'Graceland': Those were the days my...


This was the project, begun 35 years ago in February, that resulted in the release of
Graceland, the album that saved Simon’s flagging career but also brought world acclaim for music from South Africa. 
By no means ignorant of the horrors of apartheid, Simon appreciated the reasoning behind the cultural boycott, and had turned down invitations to perform at Sun City in what was then the Bophuthatswana “independent homeland”. Other famous musicians took up the invitation and came to play to white South African audiences who would never otherwise see world-class acts because of the cultural boycott. Many of these were blacklisted, including Queen, Rod Stewart, the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Elton John and, crucially, Linda Ronstadt.  ....

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