How Paul Simon’s classic album ‘Graceland’ almost didn’t get made

In 1985, when South Africa was still under apartheid, a car drove into the black township of Soweto with an unusual passenger — one of the world’s most famous singer/songwriters — concealed in the back seat. Paul Simon had been invited to Soweto by Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse, a black South African pop star at the...