“Sugar Man” is the song that gave Sixto Rodriguez his most mythical name, along with one of the strangest destinies in music history. Long before Searching for Sugar Man in 2012 turned him into a global symbol of the lost artist who was found again, long before his story became almost a legend in its own right, “Sugar Man” was the opening track of his first album, Cold Fact in 1970, and the clearest first statement of his dark, urban, poisoned world. It is also the song that gave him the nickname “Sugar Man,” the one by which he remained etched into generations of listeners.