Half a million New Yorkers lost their minds over a bald man with a harmonica.
The singer's free concert in New York City when he performed songs from his albums Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints as well as older material, backed by the New York session musicians and the native musicians from South Africa and Brazil who had enlivened his solo work. Songs include Graceland, You Can Call Me Al, The Sound of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Kodachrome, The Boxer, America, Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, Cecilia, and Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard.
Sound
Ladysmith Black Mambazo harmonies that raise actual goosebumps.
Direction
Captures 1991 NYC crowd energy—unhinged in the best way.
Director
Louis J. Horvitz
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