Well, actually, no in this case it is not all about marketing. The original was marketed very well and sold very well in South Africa. It sold about 100,000 copies. Blacks were not allowed to collect royalties--that's what it was about. This is no more about marketing than selling a stolen car is about marketing. Weiss took money for a song he claimed to have written but did not. Soloman Linda may have been in poverty, he may have been poor, but he was not ignorant. And to suggest ignorance and poverty are a common denominator is , well, .... I guess you must be a gargoyle in poverty. Richard
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