Tuesday Tunes 60: Diamond
When I reached #50 in this series I treated it as a golden anniversary, which is what we know the 50th to be, and gave you a set of songs with golden as their theme. Today we hit #60, so guess what? Yup, it’s the diamond anniversary so this week’s tunes are all diamond.
As usual, I’m starting with something lively, and they don’t come much better than this:
As I’m sure you know, that was a track on one of the best albums of all time, Paul Simon’s Graceland. It was controversial at the time of release (1986), as Simon was accused of breaking the cultural boycott which had at that time been imposed on South Africa as part of the stand against apartheid. That may perhaps explain why it reached #1 in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and many other countries, but not in the US, where…
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