Responding to the initial reviewer, while I haven't seen the film yet, my understanding is that it's all about the question of whether it's only the music that matters when you're talking about an American artist breaking a cultural boycott to record with African musicians under apartheid. Since that debate was so much a part of the way "Graceland" was recieved in 1986, the film strikes me as a necessary inclusion - and it's a tribute to Simon's courage and intelligence that instead of doing a sheerly self-..
I am not a musician and cannot carry a tune. I love all kinds of music and always felt Paul Simon was a musical/lyrical genius. I had never listened to the entire Graceland album until I purchased this CD/DVD combo and also the DVD copy of "Graceland: The African Concert. What led me to this sudden cash outlay was the recent airing on cable TV of "Under African Skies" and recently seeing a live performance of Ladysmith Black Mambazo at a local theater.I firmly believe one should listen to cut 17 on the C..
I had not purchased the original Graceland CD. I saw the 25th anniversary video on TV so I decided to buy the "anniversary edition." What you should know is that the "anniversary edition" is nearly identical to the original CD. The songs are exactly the same as the Original with four exceptions: There are three additional cuts and my version of the new release includes a DVD of the fascinating story that I saw on TV. On one of the addition cuts Paul Simon gives a 9 minute description of the music in Gra..
