Sugar man
Subtitle: the life, death and resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez
By: Craig Bartholomew Strydom and Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman
Contributors: Segerman, Stephen, author
Publisher: Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780593075463; 9781473525948; 9780593075456
Subjects: Folk musicians; Biography; Folk singers
Other titles: Life, death and resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez
Description: In the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman heard the music that would forever change his life. A decade later, on yet another military base, Craig Bartholomew Strydom heard the same music. It would have a profound effect. Who was this folk singer who resonated with South Africa's youth? No one could say. All that anyone knew was his name - Rodriguez - and the fact that he had killed himself on stage after reading his own epitaph. After many years of searching in a pre-internet age, Strydom with support from Segerman found the musician not dead but alive and living in seclusion in Detroit. Even more remarkable was the fact that Rodriguez, no longer working as a musician and struggling to eke out a blue-collar existence, had no idea that he had been famous for over 25 years in a remote part of the world ...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-363) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE MYSTERY; title: The other Sugar Man; title: Kimberley to the moon; title: Searching for the wrong man; title: Dead men don't tour; title: pt. II THE MAN; title: Seamy seesaw kids; title: And I'll forget about the girl that said no; title: Giving substance to shadows; title: Have you ever kissed the sunshine?; title: Cass corridor and other escape routes; title: Where women glow and men plunder; title: pt. III THE MUSIC; title: When your swans have turned to geese; title: Come get it I got it; title: London calling; title: Light at the end of the tunnel; title: pt. IV THE MOVIE; title: The boy who painted the chair; title: The only one who didn't know; title: A slowdive off Chapman's Peak; title: Butch and Sundance; title: The path to glory; title: All aboard Amy's train; title: Working-class hero.