Sugar man : the life, death and resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez / Craig Bartholomew Strydom and Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartholomew-Strydom, Craig, author.

Segerman, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rodriguez, Sixto.

Folk singers--United States--Biography.

Folk singers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

285 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Capetown : Penguin Books, 2015.

Summary:

The amazing story of the American musician who was famous in South Africa and Australia, but unknown anywhere else ... until the Oscar-winning documentary. Like many South Africans in the seventies and eighties, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom were obsessed with the music of Rodriguez, but the man himself was a mystery. Only his name was known, and the fact that he had killed himself on stage. After years of searching in a pre-internet age, the two men found the singer living in seclusion in Detroit. Remarkably, the blue-collar worker had no idea that he had been famous for over twenty-five years in this remote pariah of the world. In 2006, Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul set out to find 'the best story on earth' and stumbled on this remarkable tale in the Guardian newspaper. He tracked down Segerman and Strydom, and so began his four-year-long quest to make the Oscar-winning documentary, Searching for Sugar Man. Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez outlines three separate journeys and the obstacles and triumphs that each presented: Rodriguez's struggle to make a life from music; the odyssey of two fans to find out what had happened to their hero; and Bendjelloul's pursuit to bring the story to celluloid. The book is packed with information not included in the film, about Rodriguez's background, relationships and political activities, his tours to Australia, and the recognition that has finally come to him after the film's success. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Mystery 7

1 The other Sugar Man 9

2 Kimberley to the moon 21

3 Searching for the wrong man 33

4 Dead men don't tour 47

Part II The Man 59

5 Seamy seesaw kids 61

6 And I'll forget about the girl that said no 69

7 Giving substance to shadows 75

8 Have you ever kissed the sunshine? 85

9 Cass corridor and other escape routes 97

10 Where woman glow and men plunder 113

Part III The Music 121

11 When your swans have turned to geese 123

12 Come get it I got it 133

13 London calling 141

14 Light at the end of the tunnel 151

Part IV The Movie 163

15 The boy who painted the chair 163

16 The only one who didn't know 175

17 A slowdive off Chapman's Peak 193

18 Butch and Sundance 205

19 The path to glory 221

20 All aboard Amy's train 237

21 Working-class hero 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781770228146

1770228144

OCLC:

921912631

Publisher Number:

99970019227