Erasmus was told to silence Lucey, so he started a campaign of intimidation and harassment. He went to the venues where Lucey was to perform and cowed the owners of the clubs into canceling thes gigs. He intercepted mail and phone calls that would have invited Lucey to perform abroad. He even tipped tear gas into the air conditioning ducts of a club where Lucey was singing so the crowd inside emptied. And it worked. In a matter of months, Lucey found that no venue was prepared to host him, and no record company would record him. He knew he'd hit rock bottom when the only job he could find was as a barman in a club where, just months before, he'd been the main attraction.
Enemies on common groundRoger Lucey at South African 3rd Ear Music
strange, bitter, human, apartheid story
from Radio Netherlands
