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Graceland At 25.

 

PAUL SIMON: A London Salute to Graceland's 25t

Paul Simon celebrated the 25th anniversary of his iconic Graceland album with a massive London concert on Sunday.

Paul Simon celebrated the 25th anniversary of his iconic Graceland album with a massive London concert on Sunday. A day after authorities cut off a Bruce Springsteen-Paul McCartney jam session due to a curfew, Simon and the South African musicians who backed him on the landmark album headlined a Hyde Park show that also featured vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, who sang on Graceland, and trumpeter Hugh Masekela, who was exiled from South Africa during the height of apartheid. A Reuters report says Masekela brought the crowd to a frenzy asking them to "shake some booty for a man who is going to be 94 next week -- Nelson Mandela



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