Are you a hero without knowing it???

Just look at this.

Yeah, he was famous over here....

Everybody had the Cold Fact vinyl.....

I have the DVD Rooperi, it is magical. Incredible..

I think I posted about him in one of cabadenwurt's threds somewhre....

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includes a version of Sugar Man

It was new to me. The guy's dharma was in your place :-)

I recently saw the movie 'Searching for Sugarman' It is a must see.What a brilliant person and his daughters too.

We grew up with his music .When he sang about 'jumpers ,coke, sweet Mary-Jane' everybody would sing along ,thinking he was refering to sweaters,Coca-cola and his niece.  My wife and I are seeing him perform live in February !!!!

Thanks for posting this B. never heard of the guy, but still a great story! But then, the 60' ...........were my diapers days, haha.

And as far as I know, I'm not a hero..... (yet).

You never know Angel. Only when the reporters knock on your door, you are sure :-)

In that case, must keep an eye on the door, from now on.

Thanks to the OP for starting this interesting thread.

Rooperi: You were way ahead of the curve with the post that you left on my thread. Thanks !

good video. cool guy.

Oh, I could not play the video..."not made available in your country"? Help...

I can sympathize with that. I always get lyrics wrong. When the group TLC made the song "The girls are talking" (After left eye died), I always thought they were saying that, even though left eye was dead, the girls were still talking (in some smarmy way). The video certainly helped with this impression.

Then, I read the lyrics...http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tlc/girltalk.html

Oops. My bad.

Cold Fact was the musical accompaniement to my Australian adolescence... Its good to see the rest of the word has caught up to Australia and South Africa.

Actually, best ignore that last sentence.

Searching for Sugarman won the best documentary Oscar :)

I had the great privilege of seeing him live at last. What a show,I am not sure he will do much more touring after this one though. What a great person.I am so glad he is getting the recognition he deserves even if it is so late in coming to him.

There is a doctorate just waiting to be written on 'getting the lyrics wrong'. 
Australians -and some lucky others- would know the Cold Chisel song Cheap Wine.  The chorus includes the line "Cheap wine and a three day growth": for years I thought it was "Cheap wine and a three day book". 
Which reveals as much about my 'under-the-doona-depression-tactics' as it does my lousy listening-skills.

And while I'm into self-deprecation... until I was maybe 16, I thought Superman's girlfriend's name was pronounced Loice (as in 'choice') Lane.

I bet Rodriguez was never such a dag.