Taking rock’n’roll archaeology into the personal realm, in new film Searching For Sugar Man (out 27 July) Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul has unearthed not just the story of singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez and his “disappearance” after his two album’s flopped at the start of the 1970s, but his unknown legacy in South Africa where he became bigger than The Beatles in his absence – read our Q&a with the man himself now.

via Column – Rodriguez, Can, Beatles, Sex Pistols… Rock’n’roll’s lost treasures rediscovered – News – QTheMusic.com.