CD Review: Paul Simon

Paul Simon
Graceland : 25th Anniversary Edition
Legacy
By David Chiu
Nowadays, Paul Simon’s album Graceland is considered an undisputed classic, and South Africa’s policy of apartheid is ancient history. But it was a much different world back when the album was first released back in 1986. As highlighted in the wonderful new documentary Paul Simon’s Graceland Journey: Under African Skies, the record was initially met with much controversy amid the facts that Simon went to and recorded in South Africa at the time of the UN cultural boycott. Continue reading “CD Review: Paul Simon”