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Roger Lucey started writing and performing songs in the mid-seventies in his hometown of Durban, South Africa. He had dropped out of high school and after being conscripted into the South African army for two years, earned a living as a taxi driver, crane driver on the Durban docks and a fitter on the oil refineries, all the while writing and singing in pubs and clubs around the city. From those early times, his songs reflected the social and political situation in the country and when he moved to Johannesburg at the end of the seventies he recorded his first album, “The Road is Much Longer.” The album was banned for possession and distribution and the security police launched a covert ‘operation’ to silence him. His second album “Half A Live” was also banned. The full story of those times only emerged a decade and a half later, when the policeman in charge of the ‘operation’ revealed the story to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Quote from recent album - John Maytham Radio 702/Capetalk
Roger Lucey's long-awaited CD is finally out. It is brilliant. If there is one CD you get this year, make it this one.
