If you have not seen the great piece in today's New York Times you should check their website.

Wonderful front page article (with pix) on the life of this man and the history--sad as it is---of the song he composed. Started as Mbube and finally morphed into The Lion Sleeps Tonight (not the raison d'etre for his composition at all).

Except for The Weavers and Pete Seeger Linda never saw much of any royalities---and even, as Seeger says, what he handed over was siphoned off by many.   

Finally--to save some face and keep up their public image--Disney has settled with the estate and, though, the settlement is not given it must have been good because the last sentence in the article points out that now the remains of this family can live a comfortable life.

The article is truly heart wrenching. A family decimated by illness and poverty while many profited from the mega hit Linda wrote---and he wrote it as a political statement.


Bill Hahn