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Graceland is the seventh solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was produced by Simon, engineered by Roy Halee and released on August 25, 1986, by Warner Bros. Records . It incorporates genres including pop , rock , a cappella , zydeco , and South African styles such as isicathamiya and mbaqanga .
Most of this of course is in the periphery of my distant memory, but I do still remember it in the TV, print, and radio media that addressed it as a controversy back then.--74.100.147.169 19:38, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
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"Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" was written when Simon went to South Africa.While he was there, he gathered various music from locals. Upon returning to New York, Simon finished the album with the artists he brought back from South Africa, according to Simon's account in the Classic Albums documentary on the making of Graceland.
Record label EMI weren’t quite so free-spirited and refused to distribute it. When the album was eventually released, it was sold clandestinely inside brown paper bags. 7.
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The following is a list of songs that have been the subject of plagiarism disputes. In several of the disputes the artists have stated that the copying of melody or chord progression was unconscious. In some cases the song was sampled or covered. Some cases are still awaiting litigation.
In 1957, when Elvis Presley was 22, he purchased Graceland and its grounds for just over $100,000. The estate was turned into a tourist attraction in 1982, after which many fans would take on this ...