freaki, you just have to see the documentary

He was larger than Elvis in South Africa, did a concert there in the late 90's

His daughters were featured in the documentary, one of his daughters responded on a website that was set up to search for him.

It's spine chilling

Here is a trailer

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@donnashuggy wrote:

freaki, you just have to see the documentary

 

He was larger than Elvis in South Africa, did a concert there in the late 90's

 

His daughters were featured in the documentary, one of his daughters responded on a website that was set up to search for him.

 

It's spine chilling

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Yes, I think that's what I saw a feature about. Not the whole documentary but a story about making it with some of the music.  

Rodriguez were very popular here in the mid '70's. I even bought their record "Cold Fact". still have it somewhere. 🙂

I saw him at Tanelorn in the early 80's 1981 I think...

He stumbled onto stage and just like the early performances in the "doco" he half faced the audience and mumbled into the

microphone.

His vocal performance was at best dissapointing

A part of the crowd booed him off the stage when he was finished.

He played sometime after The Church and before Midnight Oil.

I enjoyed the doco... but after researching understand that some of the "facts' were a lttle tenuousm (ie the portrayal of his music as a binding factor in the downfall of apartheid).... still a feel good tale though

especially the reconnection with his SA fans.

I have all of Rodriguez's vinyl

 

http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/6016/searching_for_sugarman_and_other_fact-challenged_docume...

 

 

“To paint his as a criminally ignored genius is absurd,” the Cracked article reads. “He enjoyed a sterling career lasting over a decade.”

While Rodriguez wasn't aware of his South African stardom until after Apartheid imploded--and South African fans living in their largely isolated renegade nation knew little about their idol--Cracked has this right. Rodriguez had a reasonably successful career touring Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Sugarman does willfully neglect that part of his story and, frankly, few of us in the local media have been willing to shine a light on that shortcoming. No one wants to tell kids that Santa Claus is just their parents, I guess.

However, in fairness, Sugarman wasn't wrong portraying Rodriguez as a day laborer working in Detroit and largely unknown in his home country until he was rediscovered by South African fans post-Nelson Mandela. Those things are true.

http://www.cracked.com/article_20585_6-famous-documentaries-that-were-shockingly-full-**bleep**_p2.h...

Yep, Rodriguez was a huge sensation in Australia in the late '70s and early '80s, with his singles shooting up the charts for over a year. One of the fans from the documentary is a record shop owner and a massive Rodriguez nut -- surely he'd heard of his 1981 live in Australia album? Maybe he listened to it and figured the huge crowd cheering for the guy at the beginning was in some tiny Detroit cafe. Also, the name of the album is Rodriguez Alive, so maybe he should have taken it as a clue.

 they were good albums, made me want to move into a ghetto.. i changed my mind though . a  song  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr9peut6brI

Nice choice LL

The lyrics of my fave below....

 The Establishment Blues :