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to play in Hyde Park, as part of birthday celebrations that could revive the line during the 1985 visit to South Africa

was one of the most controversial figures in British pop history. On April 7, 1987, Paul Simon, brought his best-selling Graceland project at the Royal Albert Hall in London for the first of six sold-out concerts.

On stage, was accompanied by the cream of South African musicians, including Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, but outside the main British musicians joined the protesters that Simon had broken the cultural boycott of the ANC during the apartheid era in South Africa.

among them Billy Bragg, Paul Weller and Jerry Dammers, famous for writing one of the great hymns anti-apartheid, Nelson Mandela. He delivered an angry letter to Simon, asking him to apologize.

Now 25 years later, the guardian may reveal that Paul Simon's Graceland is the recovery and return to London for a concert in Hyde Park on July 15 as part of Hard Rock Calling festival.

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Simon joined once again by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and other South African musicians, but not by Hugh Masekela.

And there will be a newcomer, the Jamaican star Jimmy Cliff, who sang in the pro-boycott Sun City song cultural celebrations of the 25th anniversary will also bring new editions of the album, and the first Documentary UK Simon Joe Berlinger, Paul: Under African Skies

The revival seems sure to be a huge commercial success: Graceland sold 14 million copies worldwide when it was released, and remains most popular solo work of Simon, won two Grammy Awards and produced three singles success. But the concert, and the film reflected Berlinger, are required to revive arguments about Graceland and apartheid.

Looking back on the show, said Bragg. "It hurts to be part of this because I'm a fan of Paul Simon, but he was on the wrong side of the argument despite its good intentions of the cultural boycott was part of the economic boycott that led to the South Africa in the heel. Paul Simon, sets its own terms, and had to be done by people on earth. "

Dammers said: "I still believe it was wrong to go there and go against the boycott, but it's in the past is not the time to forgive and forget , but remember, and forgive

In Berlinger's film, shown at the Sundance Film Festival in London next month, Simon is to discuss the issue with Dali Tambo, the founder of Artists against Apartheid and the son of former president ANC Oliver Tambo.

Perhaps less wisely, decided to go to South Africa in 1985 to record with local musicians, so found himself accused of breaking the cultural boycott against the UN apartheid. aa
When I asked about this in a press conference to launch the Graceland album in 1986, said he had not gone to South Africa to earn money by playing in the seaside resort of Sun City, like Rod Stewart and Queen, who later apologized, but to help the country emerge from the "music rich" for the rest of the world.