Fact #161797
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Short story:
Shaka Zulu by Ladysmith Black Mambazo enters the UK album chart where it will peak at No34 during an eleven-week run.
Full article:
Johnny Black : Produced by Paul Simon, Shaka Zulu has a sophisticated, almost churchy ambience. It’s also a compilation, of sorts, because Simon’s approach was to get Africa’s premier vocal music group to re-record many of its greatest hits, using his undoubted prowess as a producer to make the performances more accessible to sophisticated Western hi-fi obsessed ears.
(Review first appeared in CD Review magazine, October 1987)
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(Review first appeared in CD Review magazine, October 1987)