Searching For Sugarman - 2012 - 7/10
If you are a music fan, like a hardcore collector, you are always searching for new.
Or forgotten, or overlooked. You don’t want mainstream, that’s for the herd.
Documentary about the obscure Detroit musician, Rodriguez.
He released two albums in the early 70’s. Both sank like stones.
One night, so the story went, angry, despondent, Rodriguez killed himself onstage in front of a bored crowd. No one knew him, no one missed him.
Except in South Africa where he had been massively popular. And he had never known.
Film follows the trail. Who was Rodriguez? What happened to him?
This one really pulls you in, partly for the mystery, partly because his music is surprisingly good.