Rodriguez | Glastonbury Festival 2013 (60mins)

1. Only Good For Conversation
2. Crucify Your Mind / Like Janis
3. I Wonder
4. Dead End Street
5. Sugar Man
6. Love Me Or Leave Me
7. Lucille
8. Climb Up On My Music
9. I Only Have Eyes For You
10. Establishment Blues
11. Unchained Melody
12. Forget It

[@vasquca1]

This guy was to humble and cool for American audience.

[@nzstrawman]

So happy to see he got the recognition he deserved. As a Kiwi, I always thought he should have been great, but being a Kiwi I also realised the best don't always get what they deserve. RIP Rodriguez

[@goeland70]

Never heard about this guy until i watched " In search for sugar man" today. What a legendary poet. I'm so happy that he finally found his well deserved fame.Great music, amazing writer. And so humble .

[@kimmolingonheimo]

the same thoughts exactly as you put it! Love!😎

[@spridle]

Exactly this. I found the documentary got high praise and wanted to watch a musical film. I would love to have a beer with the guy. We need another documentary on him post Searching for Sugar Man. He has maybe 10 years left, sadly.

[@ivorsmith3999]

@@spridle Wish it had been another 10.

[@spridle]

@@ivorsmith3999 yeah, it was hard news to take in. Glad he got to see his dream come true tho.

[@elainejlawrence7931]

Same! What a joy ❤

[@TawanLuhpia]

Rest in peace wise man! Sign with the engels in the blue sky! Long life to your music, your legacy!

[@psfirthoffith]

Thanks to Australia,New Zealand,and South Africa for keeping the Rodriguez candle burning all these years.

[@davidquigley1548]

absolutely

[@kemosabe4195]

Your welcome ;)

[@Vaginaninja]

We did nothing

[@Vaginaninja]

@@kemosabe4195 you’re

[@blancamoreno-wc7ls]

❤gracias❤

[@richmorpurgo5554]

Rest Easy, and thanks for making me FEEL.

[@kap0no22]

"Hate is too powerful an emotion to waste on someone you don't like" POWERFUL! BOOM!

[@DetVen]

Wow, that's powerful stuff (no pun intended).

[@carlosdominguezdelangel9546]

Rodriguez must to be in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

[@pascalmerschaudio]

Absolutly

[@rockyracoon3233]

SuperPasquale76. Ditto!

[@frederickbroodryk3215]

I agree that Rodriques should get better recognition, not only in the US but worlwide. He, like Leonard Cohen, is an urban poet whose music has influenced our lives so much. Voices of compassion, truth and humanity. Maybe Pressident Trump can help this "Son of Detroit" to be recognised for his contribution to music and the positive influence he had on so many lives.

[@littlemama3957]

Yes..very very humble man

[@fullrange_studio]

fuck fame

[@andywatson7776]

Thanks for your music Rodriguez, you've got to the best Singer songwriter the world has , well Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand has ever witnessed rip Sixto.

[@matto9734]

RIP Sixto! Saw the documentary some time ago, what a life and what an inspiration!

[@Deontjie]

I saw a poster advertising Rodriguez in my small home town, called The Strand. I knew Rodriguez was dead, so I thought I was buying tickets for a tribute show. Imagine my surprise when my icon walked on stage. Imagine when he said, "Thank you South Africa for bringing me back to life." Imagine HIS surprise when he walked out in Bellville on his first concert and saw a packed Velodrome. That was properly more people there than all his bars and concerts thrown together. And then he summoned the courage to give stunning show to a massive audience.

[@akgmember]

So this is how the Second Coming would feel😁❤️👍🏼

[@jahnkaplank8626]

I always imagine his emotions when everybody knew the words to just about all the songs, too... after he thought nobody even knew his songs anywhere

[@onthecouchwithca4618]

I just watched the documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" - an amazing tribute. We have a lot to be proud of for showing the world the talent of this humble man. Your neighbout in Gordon's Bay.

[@leongouws9104]

Jy praat bleddie goed Engels Deon!

[@Deontjie]

Spell checker... @@leongouws9104

[@user-fp1wd2hm3k]

I am Russian, I watched the movie (in search of sugar man) I have never heard the songs of Rodriguez before , now I watch his concert with you and enjoy it . Hello Cape Town from Russia!!!

[@MrStone7147]

Ургант назвал этот фильм ,,самым документальным,, который он когда либо видел.

[@soniarodrigues1552]

I’m Brazilian. I only discovered him yesterday, so I watched the documentary with my daughter. I cried when I saw his beautiful story! Amazing! I would like to give him a hug!

[@user-fp1wd2hm3k]

@@soniarodrigues1552 greetings for sunny Brazil from icy Russia

[@soniarodrigues1552]

@@user-fp1wd2hm3k , great! 😀

[@robegers1719]

I listened to his music in the seventies and went to a live concert at the grand west in Cape Town in 2016. Rip. Sixto

[@HRHBoof]

It just doesn't get any better than Rodriguez!!!! The last time an artist stole my heart was....let's see....NEVER! His spirit, his soul, his ability to reach into the core of our being with his words...how can we ever thank him? LONG LIVE RODRIGUEZ!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

[@williamrobertooleapimentel9203]

Su timbre de es parecido a Bob Dylan, pero sobre todo Sixto Rodríguez es único , GRANDE GENIO OLVIDALO Y HOY REENCONTRADO CON ESE PUBLICO QUE NUNCA LO OLVIDARÁ. SALUDOS DESDE CHICLAYO PERÚ

[@danglybit1]

I'm so thrilled he got what he deserved...We are keen to take credit for his success, but he has helped us more over the last 30 years..Capetown

[@aurenitapedrazzi5036]

I am so happy for him! Not for the money he actually made, but for his recognized talent and soul 🎉❤ Love you forever 🎉

[@SpeegBJ]

Why, he is just beautiful. I'm 75, way into music and have not known of him until today. Somehow never got between the awful cracks in my mind...and my misfortune.

[@spartanworria]

Its lovely to read all the grate comments from all the nice intelligent people here/ love to you all

[@vinyldiary6664]

what a talent! This is the real deal! It's fantastic and shameful at the same time... how this gentleman got forgotten in time, 30 years! Very grateful, who kept his music alive!

[@nevillemyers8596]

Such beautiful bitter-sweet music. Thank you. RIP

[@radio_coombsie9819]

Saw him last night in Sydney.... at 74 he is still amazing. I could listen to him sing and talk for hours. One extremely gifted, mesmerising and humble poet.

[@juvevalerio3240]

Radio_Coombsie I watched the documentary three times in less then a week. Inspiring!

[@roacharoo]

I watched the documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" today and discovered Rodriguez. He is remarkable. I never heard of him here in Canada, even though I live very close to Detroit - it is one of the greatest gifts. Thank you, South Africa, for resurrecting this musical genius.

[@curleyteeth]

Elaborate on your statement cinema writer.Give us some facts that we may not know about.If you know what you seem to suggest then we need to learn from your knowledge.Jim.Liverpool.

[@andrestrydom3]

@ cinema writer... the story is about 2 guys from South Africa and their search. From their point of view. Accurate I think.

[@andrestrydom3]

@Williams Hammersley - don't read too much into it mate, his FANS were there. Nothing more, nothing less.

[@1...MusicVideo]

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[@christianzelada2976]

01:20 Only Good For Conversation 04:51 Crucify Your Mind 09:35 I Wonder 15:41 Dead End Street 19:50 Sugar Man 25:45 Love Me Or Leave Me 28:42 Lucille 33:00 Climb Up On My Music 39:20 I Only Have Eyes For You 42:45 Establishment Blues 45:30 To Whom it May Cocern 49:10 Unchained Melody 55:00 Forget It

[@andreyartamonov3025]

thanks

[@AfterSpin]

Thanks

[@davidshannon119]

I wonder

[@1...MusicVideo]

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[@andrewdobra9310]

Puex tu envoi ça a Sylvie avec une becg du moi Qui viens de ma coerrr parcque Elle ne ne prendrai pas de moi directs en t de moi …. Svp je vous d pris ,, ❤

[@amandavanheerden7980]

Fabulous Rodriguez... South Africans absolutely loved his album during the 80's. Bought the album. Covered some of his amazing songs at my gigs. What a brilliant artist. I can barely listen to the ra ra music that is out in the market these days. So many superb musical artists of great integrity like him never make it into the public arena. What a great loss. So happy 2 South African producers seized Rodrigues from total obscurity and produced a film about him. He is truely amazing. Authentic.

[@oriolfont4101]

Awesome Sixto!! World never forget you again. Rest in peace sugar man

[@sandragoding9147]

VERY RARE GEMS ARE HARD TO FIND .I LOVE THIS MAN ,HE RADIATES ALL THAT IS GOOD ,KIND, HE IS RODRIGUEZ. A TRULY SPIRITUAL BEING. WISHING HIM ALL THE BEST, HE DESERVES IT GOOD LUCK TO HIM AND ALL HIS FAMILY.

[@josefinekolberg5277]

God bless Rodriguez and his family !

[@lrye-xyz]

RIP Sixto Rodriguez. Sorry that I bootlegged your songs back in the 70’s, but we couldn’t buy your record in SA. Know your every lyric. Shocked when arriving in the US to discover knew who you were. Everyone knows you now. Your life and music changed our worldview, lives and values. That lasts forever

[@leonardbissett3784]

Your queen of hearts who is half a stone, and likes to laugh alone, is always threatening to leave you. wow!!!!! what a poet of life. His mother was Native American and father Mexican who sang to him as a young boy after a hard day at the steel mill. Who has wisdom at 20 years old like sixto had and he is coming to Seattle, cant wait !!! Thx South Africa for giving him back to us.

[@orvpibbs2905]

Remembering today, a great talent. So glad I was able to see you play LIVE 10 years ago. You were Great ! r.i.p. Sixto

[@guadalupegarcia6775]

The way he sings 'Sugar man' is just beautiful 💜. What a poet, what a singer!

[@user-xg2qc5xf5u]

Whenever i see or hear this man i cry...he is unique!

[@travr6]

One of the best documentaries I have ever watched.

[@sunarodowski2089]

I heard of Sixto Rodriguez only last Friday. He was the radio backdrop at Friday night dinner. The guests left and I went on a search for this man and his music. As of, I ca't get enough. Hits every pore on my skin. Totally reaches deep. Am totally besotted by Sixto's music, his being, in his words, his person. "Searching for Sugarman", thankyou to all for not giving up. Sixto, you are a gift, a once in. Thank you so much.

[@johari3945]

Rodriguez provided a wonderful soundtrack to the lives of many, including me in Melbourne. Thanks for the music R

[@PeterPaoPao]

I had never heard of him until I saw a 60 Minutes feature on him. His music and lyrics are a whole other level, as is his humility and wisdom.

[@kimlincoln2497]

In 1971 I heard Sixto Rodriquez on KFRC radio. He blew my mind. I couldn't find the album and didn't hear of him again till 2013! So grateful for the search and re-discovery!

[@organaphus]

Despite the years away from music, working in low-paid jobs around Detroit whilst his music rocketed in popularity across the world, Rodriguez performs as well as he did back in the early 70s. I saw the documentary last night, and it's wonderful to see such a happy ending for him.

[@liger1974]

in Holland we just had the documentary 'in search of Sugar Man' on national TV. I was blown away by the story and his music is a revelation. Big shout out to SA keeping this man alive all these years, if it wasnt for you there we would not have known about Sixto!

[@Rudistardust]

We grew up with his music, whilst believing he died many years ago. And then luckily, he was alive and well.

[@warmandewalt]

I was in the navy in SA 1990 when I first heard his music and absolutely loved it from get go! Many many years later when I herd it was SA that made him famous and not known in the USA or GB, I was shocked! Every South African I knew loved him

[@ANTHONY-ONLY]

A Dutch friend took me to see him in the early seventies, he walked on stage guitar sat on a chair and mesmerised the crowed in Brisbane Queensland Australia, what a man!

[@timmyrushton9203]

rest in peace rodriguez. thank you for the music. ❤

[@bardo0007]

This is amazing, its like Bob Dylan been hidden for 40 years and suddenly back on stage,

[@alvenskirafiola3234]

he still got the voice and Dylan not :D

[@Imsteppenwolf]

Sixto Rodriguez brought us back a fresh piece of the 70's that he had encapsulated (like frozen in time) in his world of anonimity; uncurropted by fame and "success." Nobody else could do that...

[@1...MusicVideo]

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[@lelalocke1213]

yep

[@danglybit1]

Well articulated

[@bingusbongus9429]

This was the last show I ever saw with my ma she put me onto Rodriguez when I was 12 and I was 13 when this happened I remember splifs being passed over my head the vvybes were immaculate, such a inspiration such a legend Rest in power Sixto rodriguez

[@ams4800]

Fame must taste much more sweeter for Sixto after so many years of obscurity. THE BEST. Detroit loves you!

[@adamturner1563]

shame ,it doesnt work like that with vagina's.😻

[@gimpsatchel7853]

Looool best comment. snatch tastes fowl to me whatever vintage

[@garybedore76]

I'm so happy to watch Rodriguez perform; I'd give anything to get to see him perform live. He makes me happy.

[@Maggie_n_Mitch23]

Ditto .

[@eileenpolintan5563]

You make me cry ..you make me laugh..charming.. sensitive man.. incredible man..!

[@BagOfEyebrows]

I'm so in love with Sixto - I'm glad there's so much of his live performances on youtube, it's like being there, almost! :)

[@1...MusicVideo]

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[@ArthurMaslo-un3qe]

he was always a really special artist. so glad to have been at this show!!

[@curm1778]

He's a shadow of the young man he once was. And still you can tell that he's one of the rare ones in the world. A long and productive and beautiful life, Sixto. You cheered me up.

[@gloriavelez2812]

aveis visto la historia de sisto rodrigues?? lo creian muerto asi que perdio su juventud esa que otros se hicieron ricos a costillas d su musica,ahora esta mayor si pero es el y esta vivooo y tien grande corazon y la humildad no la dejo por nada sigue siendo humildee eso vale mas que todo dinero del mundo ,,,grandeee sisto

[@tim5205]

I was lucky enough to be at this performance. The guy is inspirational.

[@flachlandbraut]

He is 💘... out of his statements .... you can do a wonderful new song ......... I wrote them down ............ 💝

[@PedroVonWorzelburger]

It puts a tear in my eye! Many years ago in the 80's sittin with my friends listening to this guy on a boom box, wondering like all of us who the fuck this guy was. Bob Dylan eat your heart out.

[@andrewlinesjah4538]

Dylan is a master So is Rodriguez

[@juvevalerio3240]

He is so modest and so humble.

[@AlexMcPake]

this man has one hell of a story!

[@RyanWehr]

Amen, Brother.

[@MrHotfuzz84]

Definitely the best i've ever heard

[@Cloxxki]

Why is't HE king of the six kingdoms??

[@jaza1524]

Have been a fan since the early 70's and still listening!!!

[@adamnicholson1273]

And the legend still tours :)

[@kathiemorris7303]

I LOVED you Sixto Rodriguez when I was in my 20's [I'm 60 now, & an Aussie in Brizzie ... I was in Melbourne in my 20's though] .. I had both of your Albums & listened to them OFTEN .. & I was SO shocked / could NOT believe that a man such as yourself would commit suicide!!! I found it incredulous! & I was RIGHT to not believe it .. Yey :o) :o) .. THANK YOU for being your AWESOME self! I'm so VERY happy [I've cried with joy @ times] that you've found the fame I believed you deserved way back then .. & it's even more awesome, & beautiful & touching that you've been an 'ordinary man' for all these years, & have finally been re-discovered - THANKS to the South African guys "Searching for Sugarman" I'm SO GLAD they did! & you still have the delightful humility & insight you've obviously had all along .. You STILL have IT, AND some! I MUCH prefer your voice in your own original songs, .. am not so keen on the Tiny Tim renditions .. just sayin' .. even though your song choices are delightful for their content :o) Your own songs have GUTS, are STRONG, & SO REAL! PLEASE write LOTS more!!

[@jonathanmcfarlane5409]

Listening in Brisbane right now :)

[@venividivici2195]

grew up with this, bloke from cape town south africa growing up this was my soul foods

[@flachlandbraut]

💝

[@worthywolf]

I really consider me as an music addicted, but since 3 months ago I never had any information about this man. (I'm from Italy). Really I cannot understand as a poet, composer and singer like him is been hidden for all this time. Out of the music mainstream living as carpenter, hero only in South Africa. Now he's one of my preferred songwriter. Five star man.

[@dannyinaus]

No, he was a HUGE hero in Australia first, then New Zealand, then South Africa. I went and saw in in the 1980's when he came he to Australia. We treated him like rock royalty, because that is what he is! And he came back 2 more times!

[@judetk1]

Thanks Dannyinaus, we love him here in OZ

[@TzzX78]

sometimes american people can be very cruel and pointless. If Sixtos name would have been "Tyler, Todd", or any american name, history would have been different. for Sixto.

[@inUR2teeth]

I hadn't understood you were Italian ... Really... I thought you were from... Naziland.

[@PrincipessadiZizcov]

Adolfo Tedesco His story is incredible and I think it's because he's not White, this was just discrimination. Thanks to the documentary we could discovered this Amazing, unique Artist and human being. Anch'io sono una sua fan, è straordinario!

[@artmaniac53]

Σε ευχαριστώ Sixto για ό,τι μας έδωσες! Αθάνατος!

[@SirAlexOfTheGuitar]

I was randomly searching for lyrics on Google (for "Fever To Tell" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs if anyone's wondering), and the lyrics to "A Most Disgusting Song" came up in my search. I was intrigued, so I clicked on it. Decided to look up his music....seriously some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard, and really a god among men. Sixto is all I've been listening to for the past couple days. Thank you, man, for being such a great artist and making such divine art.

[@Mykadelic]

that being said bro fever to tell is a damn fucking mean album respect haha

[@djpete2009]

Thats exactly like me! On repeat for the last few days. Watch his movie with my partner and she was teary and i was teasing her but in the end i was bawling like a baby! Embarrassing! Lol

[@seangrant2738]

It never went away...loved this guy for 40 years About time Rodriguez was recognised for his contribution to the craft...40 years too late

[@wendyblake7021]

" I am going to tell them I am just an ordinary legend " he jokes at his coming presentation of the French Lion de Honour - a once lost and now found again again legend - a great and ordinary man

[@calibro389]

Quando ho sentito la sua storia e le sue canzoni mi sono emozionato... finalmente una storia a lieto fine è uno che merita va di più

[@tonyking3955]

Love him, I think he should open his performance by saying ' I will not be setting fire to myself this evening'

[@yiorgoshalkos1397]

It makes you wonder, how many more Sixtos are tossed away and lost forever...

[@rohlay00]

Well, there's only one Sixto

[@anthonycook8703]

No disrespect to EC but I read Clapton's autobiography and can't help relish the contrast with this guy. Imagine buying a slum in downtown Woodbridge for $50 and having Sr. Rodriguez for a next-door-neighbour, hangin on the front porch with him on a sunday morning. 'wouldn't get better than that.

[@Lazerus53]

Tony Cook you know it.

[@grobbiesm]

+Tony Cook goosebumps... just reading it x

[@benradcliffe6618]

+Tony Cook I don't know i listen to Clapton, i think Sixto is better, that's my opinion

[@OttoGrainer27]

I would talk about philosophy with him. And I'm probably under a third his age.

[@juvevalerio3240]

Otto Beumelburg the lyrics of his songs are amazing.

[@nicbark2795]

What a guy! How many nights we have listened to him in the 80`s!!

[@flachlandbraut]

💝

[@ildikovisolit8928]

Rodriguez your songs strum. The pain in my heart it’s an rscape. ❤❤❤Thank you. Been a fan forever❤️❤️💜💜💜❤️❤️💯

[@fracapa54]

i really like the stage banter, he is inot a bussinessman, he is an artist!

[@VeraVieira-Paz]

I found him today, in Brazil (!) through the movie, which I went only because my friend and I wanted to go to the movies and made a mistake and went the wrong theater!! Loving it all the way. We wait for you here in Porto Alegre, Rodriguez! On the same campus, Nelson Freire (!) was playing with orchestra, just after; and in another theater from the same university an ensemble made up of XXI century composers! Able to hop from one to the other, what a night!

[@rael1999]

The film 'Searching for Sugarman' is such a wonderful story and I'm so glad Rodriguez eventually got the recognition he deserved and that countries like South Africa and Australia were already familiar with. For me Gavin Clark is another lost soul that never really got the credit he deserved, sadly he passed away in 2015 without being discovered by many.

[@jaguarpzx]

Grande Rodríguez eres único viva México soy tu fan

[@dwight1063]

Classic! This is Searching for Sugar Man part 2. Unpolished, Dad jokes, reading the lyrics, forgetting a few, adoring crowd but an honest performance. This is a man who has not honed his act over the years but a man, shafted but the 'music biz' who still knows how to connect with the audience and finds enjoyment doing so. Brilliant.

[@vansarc1839]

feels strange growing up with this music through my child hood & the world never knew about it. well deserved recognition came to him, thanks for inspiring our South African musicians.

[@MsAnitaj22]

What a Very Humble Man with such great talent, his story made into a film documentary programme just shown on UK television this week Searching for Sugar Man., was an amazing an very inspiring of his life an the work he does for the poor in Detroit USA..

[@1...MusicVideo]

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[@olgarociocastro1913]

Increíble, un artista real, cuánto talento Mil Bendiciones para este ser humano excepcional, he seguido su historia desde que la conocí y es simplemente fantástico. Gracias a la vida por estos regalos. ¡Viva Sixto Rodríguez!

[@nooffence7670]

She is a he

[@ann-christinewallner9407]

Thanks to Malik this discovery of Rodriguez. I´m totally fascinated of this artist, whose musicality, talent and feeling makes me happy.

[@jdkit]

Sixto Rodriquez - Sent from the past to save music.

[@ArtClaux]

I love you Rodriguez!

[@moosjer]

Version of Unchained Melody... so beautiful how the crowd picks up. Rest In Peace Rodriguez. Thx for your songs!

[@ivicastevanovic6435]

The great man.When I looked at the documentary film about Rodriques,stirred up my emotions.We almost lose excellent musicians and at yhe end we get shiny person.A man with a great soul.

[@jebstewart666]

i love that, with him being in his 70's, i can understand what he is singing....you know what i'm driving at. never to compare, i can say that with over 50 dylan shows under my belt, that i wish bob, being the same ageish, could sing as clear as this amazing man.

[@alexbarra7900]

his music brings the spirit of late 60's and early 70's, he was frozen in time and now he revives without contaminating his music with the wear and tear of years ... it is simply incredible to listen to this man .

[@1...MusicVideo]

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[@halogenie1]

A nobel prize for this man definitely!

[@MR-qq6ec]

Ahahaha! Yes he is wonderful but to give him the nobel prize seems a bit odd...

[@davidgnomo1053]

Noreen Faruga no man, let those for Obama and alike.

[@lien41]

+Noreen Faruga How about the Noble Prize!

[@yellingelk]

Rodriguez is brilliant... always was. I used to listen to his two albums 'Cold Fact' and 'Coming from Reality' incessantly back in the mid 70's, shortly after he recorded them and always wondered "What happened to that guy?... How did someone that brilliant not kick on?... Where did he go?... Maybe he's dead? What a story his life has been! After all he's been through... and the incredibly long time he was away from the music biz, working as a demolition guy and what not, just struggling to get by... To the world today, Rodriguez, as a live performer, along with his music... is cooler, and more relevant than Bob Dylan. It quite saddens me, that the music powers that were in his orbit at the time, failed to see just how important an artist this man was rightfully destined to be. And I feel, by their dropping him so quickly and coldly from their label, it completely crushed, what must have been at the time, a quite delicate and teetering artistic spirit... and sadly... as a result... denied the music listening world what... would, and should have been... a whole catalog of great music from an artist who had a rightful place at the very toppermost of the music pile.

[@fionamcloughlinable]

i totally agree...i thought i was up on music as a kid but this guy passed my by and i am sad about that as i am in awe and love what he does think as you say he's well cool a real genuine artist and a very modest sweet person, no bad feelings expressed at what was outrageous swindling by that dude from AM Sussex..

[@DarkAngelEU]

I don't even understand what people ever saw in Bob Dylan. His lyrics sound boring because of his annoying voice which makes his writing sound mediocre even compared to the music I grew up with. The first time someone told me Hendrix' All Over The Watchtower is actually a Dylan cover I was amazed, looked up the original and it was.. I dunno man, I can relate with the culture of the sixties and that's probably why he was such a big figure back in the day but take all that away and he's just another guy in the line. Rodriguez is genuine, sings about his own struggles with a heart and he feels comfortable the way he brings these stories. Dylan always kinda sounded like a rip-off to me, dunno why but he does.

[@greywolf271]

The 'Music Powers that Be' have always failed to recognise talent. That's why I watch and listen to music on KZbin now.

[@yellingelk]

***** Don't be too hard on Dylan. Before you give up on him altogether... have a good listen to his album 'The Times They Are a Changin''. You've got to respect the guy, if not just for those first coulpa albums he did... they were quite brilliant. In my opinion anyway.

[@fionamcloughlinable]

Dylan Times they are...but Rodriguez has something else..what a spirit, his bouncebackability, after all that he holds no hatred or regret, I find this so so amazing and i respect him all the more..how many could have borne that with such poise and grace!

[@farmbrough]

Great man, wonderful songwriter, talented singer. There were a couple of songs that were not suited to his range, but I'd have loved to have seen him live. RIP.

[@chikiguns1968]

Una historia increíble con final feliz la de Rodriguez! Como si el tiempo se pausará en su vida y 30 años despues echara a andar, el éxito siempre estubo hay, solo que pausado para unos y enriqueciéndose otrós. Grandeeee Rodríguez y emotivo!.

[@zoila5979]

He was the best then and he is still the best now

[@adriansaavedra7923]

For someone who made such great music, he’s super humble. And he really spent most of his life working, so he knows what it’s like to be a regular person and he really prefers that.

[@Detroit104]

We will leave the beautiful compositions of Rodrigues into oblivion, Rodrigues is a living legend ...

[@nebojsha78]

Live legend !!! Greatings from Serbia Suggarman !!!

[@douglasmcquaid7585]

A real genuine humble "working class hero' with no pretentious feelings of being a great musical hero. Can still sing clearly and musically at 70. After almost 20 years of obscurity comes out and performs like he never lost his dream. A real earthy mortal man. Just Amazing! Never before and never again.

[@bnyd365]

l love this video. lyrics, melody, and his voice permeate into my mind.

[@Detroit104]

That beautiful, tell us the fantastic songs, inesquecíble legend Rodrigues ...

[@sol7602]

Absolutamente entrañable. Él representa absolutamente lo que podía haber sido y no fue. Gracias por existir y devolvernos a aquel tiempo.

[@garitaculturaggss4402]

El simplemente es .no como el idiota de Bob Dylan .

[@christianduchemin2359]

Un génie.... respect.. j'aime ta musique je profite bien de ce que tu nous a laissé merci

[@jordanvanderwerf]

Man I wish I could have been here!

[@steevidrums]

After watching Searching For Sugarman, which absolutely amazed as a story. It was so awesome that it gave him the recognition he deserved and he had another shot at the career of following his music all the way to doing festivals such as Glastonbury. But was saddened to hear recent he'd passed away. Bless you Sixto and your lovely daughters who had a big part of your come back story. There was something said in the documentary that I'll always remember what one of them said of him about if he was rich, and I'll paraphrase. "Not in money, he was rich in other things!" I loved that, and they definitely loved their dad. Rest in peace sir xxx

[@ivysarab]

absolutely fabulous, a beautiful soul, Rodriguez love to u.....

[@millertas]

It seems strange that he made it in Australia and South Africa and just about every English Speaking Nation except USA (his home nation). Just goes to prove he is really an international star.

[@Wanderglobe]

Rodriguez speaks to me more than Dylan ever did. No disrespect to Dylan it just never really grabbed me but Rodriguez did, musically, lyrically and personally. The guy is just a cool cat. No bitterness or anger, just enjoying the ride. Good on him.

[@luisgmatos]

He's name is Rodriguez... not as "catching" or "American" as Bob Dylan... That's why he didn't make it...

[@drcphealy]

Luís Matos Also the reason Dylan doesn't use his birth name

[@luisgmatos]

And the majority of the artists :)

[@adamnicholson1273]

Thanks to my Auntie, I have actually been listening to him since a very young age. And I am truly thankful for that.

[@beth4u0]

cool, bring back the old days, long video at that thanks so much for this

[@alejandrosaldiaslemus4481]

Que honor para la música y para la vida que exista Sixto Rodriguez, un verdadero regalo para el alma , su humildad y su talento, un grande....el paso del tiempo se puso al día con el, que justo...