Back in America, he continued to build sheds...

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Introduction: Griffin in Cape Town, South Africa (the record store owner nicknamed "Old Sugar") listens to music while driving "Rodriguez's songs are popular in South Africa" ​​"Suicide on stage refreshes rock history"

Beginnings (a rough outline of Rodriguez's life):

3.50 Running in the Rain 1968 Dennis and Mike narrate "Earthly" "Songs are written as well as Dylan" when they first met Rodriguez (producer of Rodriguez's first album) Arc) song "Your Troubles" 1970 (camera panning like MV)

7.45 Maggio (the bartender) narrates "The Lonely Soul Walking in the City", "He Helps People Repair Roofs", "Homeless"

His childhood in Detroit in the 1970s was generally dilapidated and full of street fumes.

9.57 His producers wonder why Rodriguez is so good but not popular

10.35 Freddy (a Detroit bricklayer) "I know him"

"Sugar Man" 1970 Southern California asked Rodland (2nd album producer) for a photo of Rodriguez 1971 "From Reality" - the last track recorded for "course" "We have high expectations, but no response"

17. Cape Town, South Africa Director Voice "Nobody Knows How Rodriguez's Songs Came to South Africa"

"I'm thinking" Moller (South African musician) "South Africa was very conservative at the time, everything was heavily censored, and Rodriguez became a symbol of rebellion"

20 Greg (music reporter) "All the institutions at that time were designed to protect apartheid" "Revolution needs chants"

Apartheid in South Africa (Apartheid) is an apartheid system implemented in the Republic of South Africa from 1948 to 1991. Apartheid is an Afrikaans quote from the Dutch word to distinguish the meaning of the segregation system. The system segregates races (mainly white, black, Indian, and other people of color)

23.40 South African Music Revolution (emerging in the white community) William Moller (member of Freedom Movement CULTURAL REBELS) "We've all heard Rodriguez"

24 TV transition to South African censorship archives Assman (former apartheid archivist) directing "Lyrics About Drugs"

26 Harris (owner of South African record label) 'Banned means better sales'

The twist (Rodriguez doesn't seem to exist):

28.03 Griffin (the record shop owner nicknamed "Old Sugar") met a man from the United States on the beach, he suddenly found that Rodriguez was not popular in the United States and came home to find a different signature on the record "I don't know him. Where did it come from, who is it?"

30.19 Carrick (music reporter) describes the scene where Rodriguez committed suicide by drinking bullets on stage

Act II Finding Rodriguez

Third paragraph rough approach

Griffin (nicknamed "Old Sugar" for the record shop owner) "Any music detectives to help?"

Finding the whereabouts of the money - royalties

Robbie Mann (the first Rogo Riggs distributor in South Africa) "can't count how many albums Ro has sold in South Africa, the time span is too big" maybe 500,000 royalties? - Find the A&M label

Clarence (South African record label owner) "You don't give money to a dead person (Ro)" They gave it to Sussex

Looking for Avant (36.43) (the former owner of the Sussachs American record company who has a direct relationship with Luo) "I won't become emotional anymore" "He's our man" "Now the money is still Is it important"

Fourth paragraph bottleneck

40 "I don't know where to look" Griffin meets Greg (music reporter looking for Lo)

Lyrics "I met a girl in Dearborn"

Find Michigan Detroit Dearborn on a map

Fifth Paragraph Climax Clue

42. Mike (producer of the first record) received a call from Greg, South Africa 1997.08

The sixth paragraph turns a corner

43.30 "Sisto is not dead" All the seekers are super happy The music reporter wrote the story of finding Luo and published the article and spread it to the United States

Act III tries to understand Rodriguez and his musical spirit

The seventh paragraph connects with Rhodes

Eva Rodrigo (eldest daughter) linked to old sugar

48 Rhodes calls late at night

Eighth paragraph interview with Rhodes

49 Rodriguez appears in person

"No one is better than that, so I'm back as a hired labor" "I've never been far from music"

The ninth paragraph, the spirit of music will not stop

Regan Rodriguez (younger daughter) "He kept going and lived" "Participate in politics, do things that make sense to him, speak up for the voiceless"

53 Emerson (construction worker Luo colleague) “After 7 or 8 hours of dirty work, he can still wear an evening gown”

"His music dream is gone, his spirit is still there"

He ran for mayor of Detroit

Paragraph 10 The soul is never barren

Eva Rodriguezro is of Mexican descent: "The fact that we have so little doesn't mean we can't dream big, it's a class bias."

Sandra (second daughter) "My father took me to some places where the upper class people go, in order to tell me that you are like them" Luo studied philosophy in college and provided her daughters with the opportunity to get in touch with art

eleventh paragraph

Ryan Maran (writer reporter) "It can't be true, is Rhode really alive"

64. In March 1998, Rhodes went to South Africa to perform and meet the seekers

the end of the story

"On the other side of the world, he seems to have found his home"

From nobody to a household name, Rodriguez was finally seen, but it seemed his expression was as calm as ever.

6 concerts in South Africa sold out

"He has two lives"

Back in the United States, he continued to build sheds, and his fame seemed to have never existed...

end

80 "He's like a silkworm, and pain breeds beauty"

later. He played over 30 concerts in South Africa

81. Rodriguez plays the piano in front of his window...

The nature of life has never changed.

He is such a real rock star and he got the real rock spirit.

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  • Rodriguez: Thanks for keeping me alive!

  • Himself - Record Shop Owner: Home is acceptance.