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Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.
Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
Documentary - 27 July 2012 (Ireland)
Director: Malik Bendjelloul
Stars: Rodriguez and Malik Bendjelloul | See full cast and crew
Searching for Sugar Man (2012):Summary
Who would know that an unknown album from an unknown artist in 1970 (Rodriguez) would become a huge phenomenon in South Africa? As big as say, Paul McCartney. Rodriguez himself was never aware of his huge success, as well as most other Americans. This film traces two hardcore fans as they trace clues
around the globe trying to find out what happened to this man. Did he commit a gruesome suicide as rumors say? If so, when and where? Almost nothing was known of this mystery man. The film unfolds a story that cannot be believed by any party. Not the South Africans, nor the filmmakers, or any member of the Rodriquez family. A story that you would swear would not be possible in this day and age of digital communications.
Searching for Sugar Man (2012):Plot
Steve Rowland has had a full life: great-nephew of Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood actor from the 1950s and 1960s, partner of the late Judy Lewis, friend of James Dean and Elvis Presley, and career as one of the great record producers, discovering talents such as Peter Frampton and The Cure. In 1970 he produced an album called ‘Coming from Reality’ for the enigmatic rock ‘n’ roller Rodriguez, who is now the subject of a
critically-acclaimed documentary called Searching for Sugar Man. Here are three excerpts from a phone interview with Rowland that I conducted late last month.A documentary about just 6 years out of a 42-odd year career, that runs two-and-a-half hours long and rarely strays from bog-standard talking head/rote archive footage format? Yes, it sounds unbearable, and probably would be were its subject anyone but Brian Eno, a definite, no-joke candidate for The Most Interesting Man In The World (sorry, Senor Dos Equis), at
a period in his life which was arguably his most creative. (Very arguably, and we’d probably be the ones to argue, having had some exposure to the Eno of the ‘80s, ‘90s and today). Still, there’s no denying 1971-1977 in the visionary musician/artist/producer’s life was a dynamic one, and the film exhaustively maps it out: his early Roxy Music days; his initial solo music career; his burgeoning confidence with the new technologies that essentially become his instrument; his multiple collaborations with artists known and unknown;
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