SYNOPSIS: Rodriguez was the greatest '70s U.S. rock icon who never was. His albums were critically well-received, but sales bombed, and he faded away into obscurity among rumors of a gruesome death. However, as fate would have it, a bootleg copy of his record made its way to South Africa, where his music became a phenomenal success. In a country suppressed by apartheid, his antiestablishment message connected with the people.
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'Searching for Sugar Man' was Completed on an iPhone After Money Ran Out
2013 Writers Guild Award Winners Include 'Argo', 'Sugar Man' and 'Zero Dark Thirty'