♫ I listened to Graceland a lot after it's release. It was a form of Happy Music for me, playing it often on my college dorm room on my compact disc player. The music sounded like a mix of African rhythms and American country-folk music. The Graceland album was controversial in many ways, and I can understand why some people wrote and said horrible things about Simon. But, I think overall, the album was influential in humanising the struggle for freedom of South African blacks. I enjoyed the music but struggled with the fact my father still worked for Barclays Bank (he worked there 38 years), which at the time had significant financial holdings in South Africa. I got a lot of flack for that in high-school so mentioned nothing of it while in college. https://islandinthenet.com/graceland/