Originally published by L.S. Media. June 9th 2012.

There can be little doubt that Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland is one of the most important that the former folk singer ever recorded.

Not only did it give a new lease of life to a flagging career after the not well received Hearts and Bones but almost single handed introduced the wider world to the music of South Africa that was still being repressed by the apartheid regime in power at the time.