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He talks animatedly about the genesis of “ The Sound Of Silence” (which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year), the end of Simon & Garfunkel and the Graceland controversy. At one point, he mugs shamelessly, recalling the kind of put-up schlub played by Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm. But he’s also capable of moments of great levity. Simon’s speech is careful and considered, characterised by brief pauses while he composes his thoughts. Even now, he acknowledges that “the urge to create is stirring, but nothing comes of it.” “The real game is, can you make something that’s interesting enough, entertaining enough, intriguing enough that the listener will listen again?” Simon has always written slowly, but after the failure of 1980’s One Trick Pony, he suffered from a prolonged bout of writer’s block.
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL THE SOUND OF SILENCE SERIES
“One of my ways of writing is for me to sit with a guitar and find an interesting guitar chord or series of chords or something, anything, to just begin,” he explains solemnly. Barren landscape, no ideas, anxiety about no ideas, lethargy spreading to increased caffeine consumption.”Īs Simon explains, his talent is more the patient and painstaking kind. The album began, admits Simon, “in a season of emotional winter. One song details Simon’s meeting with a Brazilian healer, another addresses his experiences performing at the funeral of a teacher killed in the Sandy Hook school shootings, while a third is a tribute to Cool Papa Bell, a centre-fielder in the Negro League baseball from 1922 to 1950s. A typically spry collection of songs, this new record incorporates African woodwind, Peruvian drums, electronic beats and Harry Partch’s fabulous menagerie of experimental instruments. Simon is about to release Stranger To Stranger, his 13th solo album, co-produced by Roy Halee, a collaborator since the Simon & Garfunkel days. “I got it when we played in New Zealand,” he says. His clothes are unprepossessing – a navy jumper, jeans, black shoes – apart from a lilac baseball cap with “Timothy Dwight College Yale University” stitched across the top (a souvenir of a recent talk he gave to students there) and a green pendant that hangs round his neck on a leather cord.
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL THE SOUND OF SILENCE TV
“Don’t mind me, I’m just wandering,” he says as he pads softly along the corridors, peering into rooms whose furniture has been removed to accommodate visiting TV crews or to house a makeshift office for his management team. Today, aged 74, he has taken up temporary residence in a series of interconnected suites in Claridges. 52 years later, however, and Simon’s circumstances have changed considerably. It was incredible.” Back then, he was an unknown folk singer, plying his trade in small, smoky pubs and clubs. It was the centre of… well, you know exactly what it was. In 1964, Paul Simon visited the UK for the first time.
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