Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Bonnie Raitt to Play Harvey Benefit Show
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Once Randomly Tweeted That He Hates Paul Simon
Justin Trudeau, the well-liked Canadian Prime Minister and celebrity boxing champion, has some serious opinions about Simon & Garfunkel, as Noisey points out. More
Art Garfunkel Details New Memoir ‘What Is It All But Luminous’
Art Garfunkel will publish his new memoir, What Is It All But Luminous: Notes From an Underground Man, September 26th. More
Watch LL Cool J Recall Bizarre 1980s Meeting With Paul Simon
In 1987, when LL Cool J was merely “first album famous,” the emerging rapper spent a charming afternoon bonding with folk-rock legend/fellow Queens native Paul Simon for a New York Times profile. More
‘Yesterday was a horrible day’: Paul Simon remembers his onetime love Carrie Fisher
By most accounts, particularly in Peter Ames Carlin’s new biography, “Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon,” the iconic musician had a topsy-turvy relationship with Carrie Fisher, his onetime flame whom he married in 1983 and divorced less than a year later.
On and off, Simon…
Flashback: Simon and Garfunkel Perform ‘Old Friends’ in 1977
In late 1977, Paul Simon‘s close friend Lorne Michaels helped him promote his new LP Greatest Hits, Etc. with an NBC primetime special. This was the peak of the variety hour where everyone from Donny & Marie to the Brady Bunch to the Starland Vocal Band had a cheesy variety show, but this was also the peak of Saturday Night Live and Michaels wasn’t about to attach himself to anything remotely like those other shows. Instead, they assembled a killer team that included Chevy Chase, Tom Davis, Al Franken, Charles Grodin and Lily Tomlin to craft something completely different.
The basic premise of the Paul Simon Special is that Simon merely wants to perform his tunes, but an imperious director, played by Charles Grodin, keeps interrupting him with crazy ideas. You never see much of the actual special, but there’s plenty of supposed behind-the-scenes footage and rehearsals. It’s basically a musical Curb Your Enthusiasm that included renditions of “The Boxer,” “Loves Me Like a Rock” and “Still Crazy After All These Years.”
Near the end, his old singing partner Art Garfunkel shows up to…
A rework of Simon’s “The Clock” and “The Werewolf,” produced by the Chance the Rapper collaborators
Paul Simon has shared a new song titled “Stranger,” produced by Chance the Rapper collaborators and the Social Experiment members Nico Segal (fka Donnie Trumpet) and Nate Fox….