Rodriguez | Glastonbury Festival 2013 (60mins) 

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 .

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

Rest Easy, and thanks for making me FEEL.

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

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

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

This guy was to humble and cool for American audience.

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

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

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!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

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

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

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!

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!

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.

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.

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

Such beautiful bitter-sweet music. Thank you. RIP

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.

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! :)

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.

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.

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

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

One of the best documentaries I have ever watched.

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.

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...

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

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

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!

this man has one hell of a story!

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

And the legend still tours :)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!!

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.

He is so modest and so humble.

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

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

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

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

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

" 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

Grande Rodríguez eres único viva México soy tu fan

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

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!

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

I love you Rodriguez!

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

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.

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.

Sixto Rodriquez - Sent from the past to save music.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!.

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!

He is Legend...!!!

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.

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

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

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

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..

Man I wish I could have been here!

A nobel prize for this man definitely!

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 .

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.

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.

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

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

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

One is left wondering why this guy is not as famous as Bob Dylan.

Rest in peace, legend 🙏

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

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

He's half-blind, tired and old. The 'music industry' has only just recognised him. Imagine Jagger suddenly coming to light after the 60's from a life of hardship and despair... Perspective is a great tool, use it.

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.

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

THE GREATEST ROCK STAR!!!!

Como argentino me quito el sombrero escuchando a sixto Rodriguez ,viva mejico precioso.

as a south african there are few things to be proud of this is one of them

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...