February 2012
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Paul Simon presented Chuck Berry with PEN New England’s inaugural award for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence last night. Leonard Cohen also received the award.
“Simon introduced Berry, saying he was rightfully considered a ‘great poet of teenage life’ but was much more than that. He went on to read and remark on the lyrics to what he called some of his favorite Berry...
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WatchFive minutes of highlights from “The Harmony Game: The Making of Bridge Over Troubled Water.”
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It’s Valentine’s Day.
For some of us, this day is the bane of our existence. We are, to some degree, alone — and this is a day for the not-alone.
As someone who is alone, the only good thing about Valentine’s Day for me is its soundtrack.
That’s right: love songs.
Unsurprisingly, Paul Simon is adept at writing love songs; from ‘Kathy’s Song’...
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Paul and Art talk about Bob Dylan
Paul Simon: Bob Dylan is like the most mysterious of all the people of our generation. He’s sort of impenetrable, really. I’m trying to remember if there is anyone else besides Bob Dylan who could have influenced me [to start writing songs like “The Sound of Silence”], but I really can’t imagine that there was. It might not have been Dylan directly but it was the folk scene of Bleecker and MacDougal. But Dylan was so dominant a force in it that in a way you can attribute it to him.
Art Garfunkel: To the extreme, Dylan was the coolest thing in the country. Who he was and how different and bold his lyrics were, and his look; that was the closest thing the record business had to James Dean. If you look at the early Dylan on his album covers, you see a real charismatic star of a kid. I remember when The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan came out. I was in Berkeley. I was a carpenter. And I was singing in clubs as well as doing carpentry during the day. And I saw in the record store around early September the new album. And there’s Dylan in the Village walking in the snow. The camera’s got an upward angle on him and he’s with his girlfriend. And I knew I had to try to make a record. That was such a great place to be.
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Concert News: Paul to headline the San Francisco... →
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