Monthly Archives: October 2012

Rodriguez: The rock icon who didn’t know it – 60 Minutes – CBS News

A Detroit musician living in poverty didn’t know that in South Africa, he was more popular than the Beatles. Bob Simon reports. via Rodriguez: The rock icon who didn’t know it – 60 Minutes – CBS News.

Review: Searching For Sugar Man

A story so incredible it has to be true. Or completely false. I can’t tell. Surely there’s no way that the world could have been duped into believing that 1970s folk artist Rodriguez really poured gasoline over himself on stage and set himself on fire in a brazen act of public suicide. Or is itContinueContinue reading “Review: Searching For Sugar Man”

Watching People Search for Sugar Man

The first time that I heard ‘Sugar Man’ I was seven year old, restlessly confined within my great Aunt’s dusty Kenilworth flat. Driven mad by boredom and the fetid smell of old people, and hoping to imitate the cool guy from Limp Bizkit, I decided to try my hand at turntablism. Wiping the dust offContinueContinue reading “Watching People Search for Sugar Man”

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Review: 9 out of 10 (Music Mythos meets Harsh Reality) | Day at the Movies

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN is a strong, beautifully created documentary that is only made better based on your love for music. It chronicles the story of the elusive Sixto Rodriguez, a Detroit hard labor worker who released two separate albums in the early 1970s. For reasons that only the music industry gods might understand, hisContinueContinue reading “SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Review: 9 out of 10 (Music Mythos meets Harsh Reality) | Day at the Movies”

Quickflix – Searching for Sugar Man review by Simon Miraudo

When a documentary begins by telling you that its subject committed suicide on stage four decades earlier, you don’t expect to be treated to a recently conducted interview with the supposedly deceased. Or maybe we should see that coming. Much credit to director Malik Bendjelloul for surprising this cynical and desensitised film watcher. Searching forContinueContinue reading “Quickflix – Searching for Sugar Man review by Simon Miraudo”