Paul Simon, Graceland: The African Concert

TV Special
1987
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1h 30m

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Paul Simon in Paul Simon, Graceland: The African Concert (1987)

Paul Simon's live concert given in Zimbabwe, Africa, featuring such South African musicians as Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masakela, to promote his seventh studio album "Graceland" (1987).Paul Simon's live concert given in Zimbabwe, Africa, featuring such South African musicians as Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masakela, to promote his seventh studio album "Graceland" (1987).Paul Simon's live concert given in Zimbabwe, Africa, featuring such South African musicians as Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masakela, to promote his seventh studio album "Graceland" (1987).

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- Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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- Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

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7Jeremy_Urquhart

A good live show

Graceland is a fantastic album. I guess it's frontloaded, given its first eight songs are all great, and then its last three songs aren't bad... but are nevertheless the weakest songs on the album. I was excited to watch this live performance, but wish it had been the whole album played live and in order, with maybe some of the other songs added to the end or the beginning. It might be a weird complaint, but I feel like the flow of it all would've been better that way.

Still, it was a nice (and novel) way to listen to a familiar album, reinterpreted and changed up here and there for the purpose of playing it live. Enjoyed most of the guest musicians, too, and it stands out from many other concert films of its time by taking place in Africa, and occasionally having some interesting cutaways.

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Trivia
Track listing of the live concert:

1. Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Intro and Township Jive.

2. Paul Simon - Boy In The Bubble.

3. Paul Simon - Gumboots.

4. Paul Simon - Whispering Bells.

5. Hugh Masekela - Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela).

6. Paul Simon - Crazy Love, Vol. II.

7. Paul Simon - I Know What I Know.

8. Miriam Makeba - Jinkel E Maweni.

9. Miriam Makeba - Soweto Blues.

10. Paul Simon and Miriam Makeba - Under African Skies.

11. LadySmith Black Mambazo - Nomathemba (Mother Of Hope).

12. LadySmith Black Mambazo - Hello My Baby.

13. Paul Simon and LadySmith Black Mambazo - Homeless

14. Paul Simon - Graceland.

15. Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al.

16. Hugh Masekela - Stimela.

17. Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes.

18. Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Hugh Masekela and Paul Simon - N'kosi Sikeleli.

Goofs
Bakithi Kumalo switches between two bass guitars (one fretless, one not) during the concert, which is fine. However, he switches back and forth between the two during the song "I Know What I Know".