Jimmy Buffett covered a Johnny Clegg song back in 1988. For Johnny, it was an introduction to the man.
“It was great. I’d didn’t know who he was. I didn’t know how big he was,” he tells Undercover News. “Someone said ‘Jimmy Buffett is covering your song’ and went ‘okay’. Then I went over there and saw him playing to 40 or 50,000 people and thought ‘my word’”.Jimmy Buffett recorded Clegg’s ‘Great Heart’, a song that was also featured in the movies ‘George of the Jungle’ and ‘Whispers: An Elephant’s Tale”.
“Do you know that in 1990 he was the biggest touring artist in America. Incredible” he says.
Buffett is huge in the USA, so big in fact that he also has two restaurant chains named after him. Check out the Margaritaville bar next time you are in Vegas.
Expect to hear the best of Johnny Clegg when he brings his show to Australia and New Zealand in May for the first time in three years.
Dates are:
Perth: Thursday 21st May 2009 The Riverside Theatre, Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre
Melbourne: Monday 25th May 2009 Palais Theatre
Sydney: Tuesday 26th May 2009 Sydney State Theatre
Brisbane: Thursday 28th May 2009 QPAC Concert Hall
Wellington: Saturday 30th May 2009 St. James, Opera Hall
Auckland: Monday 1st June 2009 Auckland Town Hall, The Edge
