I don't believe what I read in the papers
They're just out to capture my dime
SEPTEMBER 2007
MORE NEW UPDATES ON THIS WEBSITE
After the updates we did on this site last July (scroll down the news to check them) now we have added more updates in the following sections:
Charts & Sales
Links
MASEKELA AND SIMON TO TOUR OVER DARFUR
Kick-off next Sep 25 at UN, NY
Hugh Masekela and Paul Simon are to reunite in a series of concerts aimed at prompting politicians to end the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Beginning next month with a concert in New York, the pair will launch a worldwide tour, with the support of other musicians including the singers Youssou N'Dour and Angelica Kidjo. The first performance is set to coincide with a meeting of the UN heads of state on September 25. Masekala has declared: "I called Paul and said, I'm working with the Darfur people - I need your help.' He said, 'You just tell me what it is and I'll be there. We will do the concert in a place where we can get 500 people or so - and focus on people who can do something about it. Then we want to do a tour and hope it helps."
THE LYRICIST’S VOICE: PAUL SIMON WITH BILLY COLLINS
Paul on 92nd Street Y next February
Paul Simon will appear in conversation to discuss the art of lyric-writing on 92nd Street Y next Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 8:00pm. It will be at Kaufmann Concert Hall. Tickets for this event can be bought at:
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T%2DTP5MS08
SIMON ON WYCLEF JEAN NEW ALBUM
“Fast Car” song by Simon & Wyclef
Paul Simon has collaborated on Wyclef Jean’s forthcoming album named "The Carnival II: Memoirs of an Immigrant". They performance together in the song "Fast Car". This album is scheduled to be released next November 2007. Wyclef has declared that he considers this collaboration with Paul as a dream come true. According to Rolling Stone magazine the disc is widely eclectic … (including) the mellow "Fast Car" on which Simon contributes a verse and acoustic guitar.
ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCES TO BACK DODD
Paul Simon has spent part of last July touring over US to back senator Chris Dodd campaign as Democratic presidential candidate. He did some acoustic performances of his hits: Me &Julio, Mrs. Robinson, The Boxer. Some of these performances can be watched on Youtube.
RUMOURS ABOUT S&G TOUR IN AUSTRALIA
Maybe a new world tour to promote “Live in 1969” album
According to a news appeared last July 18 in Herald Sun paper some promoters have contacted to S&G in order to take them to tour Australia in 2008. Dates have been tentatively locked in for early next year, with two rival promoters now bidding. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reportedly demanded $1.1 million between them for each show. The new tour would follow the release of a vintage concert recording, Live 1969. It is unknown if it would become a world tour.
S&G ALBUM “LIVE IN 1969” POSTPONED AGAIN
After one year of delays for its release everything was prepared to release the new S&G live album this September, however it has been postponed again without date, though still supposed to take place in this year. Maybe this new delay has been planned to release it next to Christmas sales and next to the possible new 2008 S&G tour, maybe designed to promote this album.
PAUL IN CHARLIE ROSE ON DVD
The long interview to Paul Simon on Charlie Rose last June 28 has just been released on home DVD. Simon also discusses his CD The Essential Paul Simon and performs Slip Sliding Away. Also available the 1998 interview about The Capeman.
Here comes the media
Setting up their camera
Asking everyone’s opinion
About pigs, sheep and wolves
JULY 2007
NEW UPDATES ON THIS WEBSITE
We have just updated and redesigned the following sections on this website:
Discography
Early recordings
Paul Simon Solo Discography
Paul Simon Albums
Paul Simon Singles & EPs
Records produced, written or vocals by Paul Simon
Paul Simon’s original tracks on records
Simon & Garfunkel Discography
S&G Albums
Videography
Home Videos & DVD
Videoclips
Paul Simon’s Awards & Honors
The Philanthropist
Paul Explains his Work
New part added at the bottom of this section with Paul’s declarations about Surprise album songs
Interviews
Reviews
Books
New design of home page
As most you have already noticed from about 1 month ago we have made a new design for the home page of this site, including a small video spanning Paul Simon’s career whose soundtrack is music guitars of “Another Galaxy” with vocals removed.
PAUL TO SPEND SUMMER ON A NEW SONG
According to two posts by Ears and Cathy in alt.music.paul-simon Paul Simon has said that “he hasn't written for the last two years but has just started again and has the roots of a new song forming. He said he plans on taking it easy this summer and writing. He also said he doesn't really see a whole album/CD eventually coming out of it, *but* that he does enjoy performing, & likes to be able to tweak already-written songs - giving them fresh sounds, for performances.”
PAUL SIMON IN THE BASEBALL
This Week In Baseball is essentially a weekly baseball highlights show. TWIB sometimes features little segments on baseball players who also play music; last June 29 they changed it around to a musician who likes baseball. Paul talked about going to a Yankees game as a child with his father and seeing Joe DiMaggio hit a home run. They played some of the "Me and Julio" video with Mickey Mantle and Paul said that he "treasured" a framed picture of Mickey laughing with him. I thought it would be a one or maybe two minute segment but I think it was closer to 8 minutes.
SIMON IN CHARLIE ROSE
After being delayed finally last June 28 it was aired a long and interesting interview to Paul Simon on Charlie Rose US TV program, where he promoted his new compilation Essential and talked long and deep about his work and career, touching on the creative process, science, the state of the music business (it no longer thrives), the Gershwin Prize and Paul Simon’s plans for future recordings. Here is a link to the video of that interview:
TWO NEW BOOKS ABOUT S&G AND PAUL SIMON
Scheduled To Be Released Next October
Simon And Garfunkel's Bookends (Rock Of Ages)
Pete Fornatale
Rondale Books
USA, October 2007
160 pages
Joining Rodale’s series on the greatest works of the rock era is this fresh look at Bookends, which many consider Simon and Garfunkel’s best album—and at the stormy relationship the duo have shared through the decades. Bookends is vintage Simon and Garfunkel, featuring such hit singles as “A Hazy Shade Of Winter,” “Fakin’ It,” and “Mrs. Robinson,” the classic from the Graduate soundtrack that soared to the top of the charts.
The timing of the album’s release lent gravitas to the major themes and lyrics, and classic rock radio legend Pete Fornatale examines the impact of the music and the enormous popularity of Simon and Garfunkel as performers in this new installment in the Rock of Ages series.
Writing from on-hand experience with the band and extensive, exclusive one-on-one sit-downs with Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, Fornatale reveals never-before-disclosed details of the love-hate partnership between the two musicians and a unique perspective on each of them as individuals—from Garfunkel’s movie career and late-in-life arrests for marijuana possession to Simon’s stubborn, egotistical moods and wildly varied career choices. Bookends marked a critical juncture in their relationship as the wear and tear of a 10-year professional partnership began to take its toll just as the band was reaching its creative peak. Fornatale’s insights in Bookends will entertain, captivate, and surely surprise even the most dedicated Simon and Garfunkel fans.
The Words And Music Of Paul Simon
James Bennighof
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
October 30, 2007
After providing a brief biographical overview, this work will examine Simon's songwriting work in depth, providing a critical discussion of each song as a fusion of text and music so as to help the reader to identify elements that enhance appreciation. A particularly valuable contribution in this context is the discussion of the wide variety of musical elements that contribute significantly to the value of Simon's work. These include such easily-understandable issues as verse-chorus structure, melodic variation, selection of particular instruments and even performers, variation of musical style within a song, general harmonic characteristics, relationships among keys, rhythm and pacing of text, etc. While the book proceeds chronologically through Simon's recorded output, specific threads are developed throughout, and the discussion of individual songs takes place in the context of these threads, both drawing on them and developing them further. The diversity of Paul Simon's work reflects his very American background, and no discussion of American music is complete without accounting for his influence.
About the Author
JAMES BENNIGHOF is Professor of Music Theory and Vice Provost for Academic Administration at Baylor University. He has presented numerous articles and papers in leading scholarly journals and conferences on music theory and analysis, including studies of American vernacular music by Scott Joplin, Robert Johnson, Artie Matthews, Janis Joplin, and Paul Simon. He has also composed both text and music for some three-dozen choral works, several of which are published by Oxford University Press.
S&G LIVE 69
Release Date And Trackslist
Columbia/Legacy has unearthed an album's worth of previously unreleased recordings from Simon & Garfunkel's November 1969 U.S. tour, which turned out to be the duo's last for more than a decade. "Live 1969" is due between July 31 and August 8. Shows on the tour were taped with the intention of releasing a live album to follow up the January 1970 release of "Bridge Over Troubled Water," but that project never materialized until now. The album includes early live versions of songs from "Bridge," including "Why Don't You Write Me," "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" and the title track. Also featured are classic such as "Homeward Bound," "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" and "The Boxer," plus a cover of the Gene Autry-popularized "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine."
Here is the track list for "Live 1969":
"Homeward Bound" (11/15/69, Long Beach, Calif.)
"At the Zoo" (11/27/69, New York)
"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" (11/8/69, Carbondale, Ill.)
"Song for the Asking" (11/15/69, Long Beach, Calif.)
"Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (11/28/69, New York)
"Mrs. Robinson" (11/8/69, Carbondale, Ill.)
"The Boxer" (11/15/69, Long Beach, Calif.)
"Why Don't You Write Me" (11/15/69, Long Beach, Calif.)
"So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" (11/8/69, Carbondale, Ill.)
"That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine" (11/15/69, Long Beach, Calif.)
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" (11/28/69, New York)
"The Sound of Silence" (11/8/69, Carbondale, Ill.)
"I Am a Rock" (11/8/69, Carbondale, Ill.)
"Old Friends/Bookends Theme" (11/1/69, Toledo, Ohio)
"Leaves That Are Green" (11/31/69, Detroit)
"Kathy's Song" (date unknown, St. Louis)
TV COMMERCIAL
To Promote “The Essential Paul Simon”
WBR has released a TV commercial to promote sales of the new compilation “The Paul Simon Essential”, made with pieces of old Simon’s music videos
THE ESSENTIAL PAUL SIMON DVD TRACKSLIST
MUSIC VIDEOS
"Me And Julio Down By The School Yard" (with Mickey Mantle)
"You Can Call Me Al" (with Chevy Chase)
"Boy In The Bubble"
"Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes"
"The Obvious Child"
"Father And Daughter"
TV APPEARANCES
"The Dick Cavett Show"
-"Mrs. Robinson" (1970) - interview/performance
"Saturday Night Live"
-"Loves Me Like A Rock" (1975) - performance
-"Sweeney Sisters" (1987) - comedy sketch
-"Homeward Bound" (with George Harrison) (1976) – performance
PAUL SIMON SIGNS ON TO HELP CHRIS DODD'S PRESIDENTIAL BID
DES MOINES, Iowa -- June 21, 2007. Singer Paul Simon hopes to keep Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd's presidential hopes from slip-sliding away. Simon, half of the popular 1960s duo Simon and Garfunkel, will join Dodd for two days of a bus tour that the Connecticut senator is making across Iowa July 3-7. Simon will take part in stops in northern and western Iowa.
"Simon and Dodd have been close friends for many years and Simon has been a longtime Dodd supporter," said Taylor West, a spokeswoman for Dodd's Iowa campaign. Simon grew up in New York City but now lives in Connecticut. He'll join the senator as Dodd is registering in the low single digits in Iowa polls.
Paul Simon: a Chris Dodd Roadie, by Mary Ann Akers. The Washington Post. May 24, 2007
No question who America's new national treasure, Paul Simon, is supporting for president. The most conspicuous V.I.P. audience member at last night's three-hour concert at which Simon was awarded the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.).
Mid-way through the show at the Warner Theater, Dodd and his wife, would-be first lady Jackie Clegg Dodd, were summoned down to the "Queen's Box" to sit with Simon's dear old friend and neighbor, Lorne Michaels, creator of "Saturday Night Live." From there, they watched Simon welcome his "dear friend and partner in arguments," Art Garfunkel (whose hair only gets crazier with time), on stage to sing - what else? - a tear-inducing (no matter your generation or its aversion to the nails-on-chalkboard sound of folk music) rendition of "Bridge Over Troubled Water." It was - hear us now, make fun of us later - a beautiful thing. (The incredible line-up included performances by Lyle Lovett, James Taylor, Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin and Stevie Wonder, among others.)
Dodd, it turns out, is a big fan and old pal of Simon, as we learned at the after-party at the uber Euro-shwanky Mandarin Oriental hotel. (We crashed the party, and no one seemed to mind).
Somehow, we were welcomed into the V.I.P. section, where Simon told the Sleuth, "I love Chris Dodd. I did a fundraiser for him in March." And Dodd, who stayed out past 1:00 a.m., told us that Simon will be his roadie in Iowa and New Hampshire. "If he wants me to, I'm there," Simon confirmed. Simon and Dodd were hanging out with Michaels and TV sports god Bob Costas, who emceed some of the evening - most notably a tribute to Simon's "Mrs. Robinson," which of course immortalized Joltin' Joe DiMaggio. Simon, Dodd and Michaels talked about the time they all went to Czechoslovakia for the inauguration of Vaklav Havel. (Simon said they were "observers.")
Costas at one point declared to Michaels that if Al Gore had only gone on "Saturday Night Live," he'd be "the freaking president right now!" Simon and Michaels talked about being neighbors. And poet Billy Collins, a two-term former poet laureate, remarked that his neighbor is Lou Reed. "What am I going to say to him - 'Hi, Lou, may I borrow a cup of heroin?'" Collins said.
The night ended in the V.I.P. room around 1:30 a.m. with Simon, 65, looking a little tired. He told us he'd better go get some sleep because his youngest son had a little league baseball game scheduled for today.
And Simon is the coach of his son's team.
MADAM BELLE SIMON PASSED AWAY
Disgracefully last June 16, 2007 Paul Simon’s mother, Madam Belle Simon, passed away, being 97 years old. We join to Simon’s family grief and pray for her soul.
The sad news appeared in The New York Times in the following way:
The New York Times OBITUARIES Monday June 18, 2007
"SIMON--Belle, 97, passed away, June 16, 2007, Loving and beloved wife of the late Louis Simon. Adored mother of two sons, Paul and Edward and five grandchildren, Harper, Adrian, Emma, Lulu and Gabriel. She will be greatly missed by her daughters-in-law Edie and Leslie. She was a first grade teacher at Public School 164 in Queens and retired in 1975. Donations may be made in her name to the Children's Health Fund, 215 West 125th Street, Suite 301, New York, NY 10027"
TWO PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED S&G TRACKS
On New Monterey Festival CD
Last June 5, 2007 the label Razor & Tie released a 2 Discs CD from Monterey Pop Festival. The tracks 3 and 4 from disc 1 are two previously unreleased tracks of Simon & Garfunkel´s performance at that festival: Homeward Bound and Sounds of Silence.
CHF 2007 GALA
Last May 30, 2007 Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have lent their support to Paul Simon’s Children’s Health Fund in New York City. Marc performed in front of a packed house at the 20th anniversary gala, which also featured an appearance from President Bill Clinton. This year Paul did not perform in the gala, but he did a speech.
NEW S&G COMPILATION DVD
Simon & Garfunkel Concert Clips
Last March 5, 2007 label Quantum Leap released a new compilation DVD of old concert clips by Simon & Garfunkel, named Simon & Garfunkel Concert Clips. The run time is 65 minutes and the trackslist is the following:
01 Introduction 02 Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel 03 Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel 04 Sounds Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel 05 Here Comes The Sun - Paul Simon & George Harrison 06 America - Simon & Garfunkel 07 Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel 08 Scarborough Fair - Art Garfunkel 09 One Man's Ceilling Is Another Man's Floor - Simon & Garfunkel 10 Crying In The Rain - Art Garfunkel 11 Still Crazy After All These Years - Simon & Garfunkel 12 You're the One - Paul Simon 13 El condor pasa - Art Garfunkel 14 Slip Slidin' Away - Simon & Garfunkel 15 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon 16 April Come She Will - Art Garfunkel 17 Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel.
NEW TOM & JERRY COMPILATION
Simon & Garfunkel Recorded As Jerry Landis & Artie Garr, With Tom Graph & True Taylor
Some months ago label Laser Disc released a new compilation of old Tom & Jerry stuff. Here is the trackslist:
1. Dream alone 2. Beat love 3. Just a boy 4. Play me a sad song 5. It means a lot to them 6. Flame 7. Shy 8. The lone teen ranger 9. Hey schoolgirl 10. Our song 11. Tennage fool 12. Dancin' wild 13. Don't say goodbye 14. Two teenagers 15. True of false 16. Just to be with you 17. Dreams can come true 18. Pretty words
ONE-TRICK-PONY MOVIE
Rumours of Possible Release On Home DVD
Though no official confirmation neither any release date scheduled, there are rumours about OTP film would be released on DVD format, maybe in next months or next year.
It was bad news, then it got worse
In the news the caption read: Save The Life Of My Child
All about the fire in your life on the evening news
Nothing but good news
MAY 2007
After a break the news on this site are back with regular updates
Old News Files can be checked clicking on the link
NEW PAUL SIMON COMPILATION + DVD
The Essential Paul Simon
Last months Paul Simon has been working on the release of a new collection of old songs, scheduled for next June 25 or 26 and called ´The Essential Paul Simon´. Warner Brothers will release the package on 2 discs with 36 tracks, and also as a 3 disc set with 45 minute video.
Track List
Disc 1
1 Mother & Child Reunion
2 Loves Me Like a Rock
3 Me and Julio Down by the School Yard
4 Duncan
5 Kodachrome
6 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
7 Slip Slidin' Away
8 Gone at Last
9 Something So Right
10 Late in the Evening
11 Hearts and Bones
12 Take Me to the Mardi Gras
13 That Was Your Mother
14 American Tune
15 Peace Like a River
16 Stranded in a Limousine
17 Train in a Distance
18 The Late Great Johnny Ace
19 Still Crazy After All These Years
Disc 2
1 Graceland
2 Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
3 Boy in the Bubble
4 You Can Call Me Al
5 Under the African Skies
6 Obvious Child
7 Born at the Right Time
8 The Cool, Cool River
9 Spirit Voices
10 Adios Hermanos
11 Born in Puerto Rico
12 Quality
13 Darlin' Lorraine
14 Hurricane Eye
15 Father and Daughter
16 Outrageous
17 Wartime Prayers
Disc 3
1 [DVD] Multimedia Track
NEW SIMON & GARFUNKEL LIVE CD
Live 1969
Sony Legacy has announced the forthcoming release of a new live S&G CD named “Live 1969”. First its release was scheduled for last February, later postponed for May 8, and now it has been postponed again.
SIMON MAKES A “SALSA” RENDITION OF “LATE IN THE EVENING”
Paul has collaborated on forthcoming Spanish Harlem Orchestra album named “United We Swing”. He appears on track 13 doing a salsa rendition of his 1980 hit “Late In The Evening”. The album release is scheduled for May 25, though before it, last may 16, it was presented at SOB’s New York
Oscar Hernandez, the leader of Spanish Harlem Orchestra, was the music director of Simon’s Broadway musical “The Capeman”.
PAUL SIMON HONORED WITH 1ST GERSHWIN PRICE BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Simon has become the first recipient of the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, named in honor of George and Ira Gershwin. As the Mark Twain Prize has done for American humor, the annual Gershwin Prize will honor an American composer or performer "whose lifetime contributions exemplify the standard of excellence associated with the Gershwins," the library says. The same producers who originated the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for Humor in 1998 have been working to establish a popular-music corollary since 2000.
Last May 22 Simon received the prize in an invitation-only ceremony in the library's Great Hall, followed by a gala concert Wednesday 23 at the Warner Theatre. There Paul took the stage with Stevie Wonder for a duet of Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard. And Ladysmith Black Mambazo returned to join him on Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes. Upon finishing, Simon told the crowd, "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you." Many hollered back, "Thank you," which was met with cheers. Simon introduced "my dear friend" Art Garfunkel, greeting him with a hug, and the two sang their 1970 hits Bridge Over Troubled Water and Cecilia. For a finale, Wonder and Simon did Loves Me Like a Rock backed by the gospel group the Dixie Hummingbirds, who performed on the 1973 recording. Before Simon's appearance, the most raucous reception was earned by Lovett and Buckwheat Zydeco in their rousing performance of the Cajun-flavored That Was Your Mother. Other highlights: James Taylor's subtle version of Still Crazy After All These Years, Marc Anthony's hip-shaking delivery of Late in the Evening, Krauss' return to the stage to singGracelandand Simon on his own tender Father and Daughter, from the movie The Wild Thornberrys. A backing band performed below an artificial facade of the Library of Congress. Video highlights ran throughout the night, including a collection of Saturday Night Liveclips introduced by creator (and Simon pal and neighbor) Lorne Michaels. One showed Simon singing Still Crazy After All These Years in a turkey costume.
Librarian of Congress James Billington presented the award to Simon at a Tuesday dinner. At the same time, the 12-time Grammy winner announced plans to add his song notes for Graceland to the library, joining original manuscripts by Leonard Bernstein, John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland, and Ira and George Gershwin, for whom the award is named.
According to James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress, "Paul Simon's contribution has been very special and deserving of recognition, as indicated by the quality of people coming to this event. . . . As our first designee, we made it clear that real musical craftmanship is involved, as well as a lifetime of achievement, continued growth and diversification."
The Library of Congress will receive the extensive works-in-progress archives Simon has been keeping since he began "Graceland," written notes on yellow legal pads tracing how songs were made lyrically and CDs "of every little phase of a recording that typically starts with a drum pattern, or three or four, then edits and evolution and additions," he explains. "It may go on for months before you start to hear a vocal come down, and by the time you complete the process, you can hear every little nuance of what I decided to change in phrasing. It's pretty interesting to be able to document it so effortlessly."
The three-hour concert from the Warner Theatre will be edited down for a 90-minute PBS special to air June 27 by PBS.
PAUL SIMON SPECIAL ON BBC RADIO 2
Mr Simon’s Big Trip
On June 5 UK BBC Radio 2 will air a special about Paul Simon’s time in the UK during the early 60´s, named “Mr Simon’s Big Trip” which uncovers the real story of Paul Simon’s British residency, and the part it played in his creative formation.
For years, people have been fascinated by the ´missing´ 13 months in the life and career of Paul Simon preceding the rise to success in America of Simon and Garfunkel.
Simon spent what is probably one of the most famous ´gap´ years in music history travelling around England, writing songs, playing tiny folk club venues and meeting future legends of the folk scene, including Bert Jansch and Martin Carthy. Homeward Bound was famously penned on Widnes Station, and many of his most famous lyrics can be traced to British roots.
The programme includes interviews with Martin Carthy, Brian Protheroe, Al Stewart and many more and features a hitherto unheard Paul Simon song, The Northern Line, recorded in an Exeter folk club in 1965.
The BBC Radio 2 60s Season marks the anniversary of the ´Summer of Love´ and the network´s 40th birthday in September. BBC Radio 2 takes listeners on a magical mystery tour of the Sixties with a season of summer programming celebrating the music and culture of this influential decade.
BBC RADIO 2 60s SEASON
Mr Simon´s Big Trip
Tuesday 5 June
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2
PAUL SIMON NAMED PERSON OF THE WEEK ON ABC WORLD NEWS
Last May 8 Paul Simon was honoured by ABC World News as “Person Of The Week” because of his Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by Library of Congress.
A video from this ABC News Special named “The Sounds of Paul Simon” can be watched at yahoo news videos
PAUL SHOW IN ITALY NEXT JULY
It is confirmed that Paul Simon will perform next July 13 at Parco della Musica in Rome (Italy). Some rumours point out that also Montreux Jazz Fest have contacted with Simon to perform there in July. And some more rumours about a possible European Tour next summer, but nothing confirmed, except Rome show.
SIMON IN WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION
Last April 24 Paul Simon accepted an award from the We Are Family Foundation which was started in September 2001 by Nile Rodgers, the famous music producer and leader of Chic, and Nancy Hunt. Since then, they have raised millions of dollars and built schools in South Africa and South America. It´s pretty impressive stuff. Last night, they raised more than $1 million. Of course, the annual fundraiser is all about music.
Nile Rodgers played guitars on Simon’s track Think Too Much (a) from H&B album.
Paul Simon stole the show with renditions of "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover," "Late In The Evening" and "You Can Call Me Al." He was backed by his own band plus Rodgers and Chic.
Here is a link to a video of Paul’s performance:
http://wearefamilyfoundation.org/MediaGallery/VideoGallaries/Video_PaulSimon.aspx
PAUL AT 2007 TED CONFERENCE
Last March 8 Simon was one of the guests in “2007 TED” (Technology Entertainment Design). It is a 3 days congress where participants discuss about advances on that area and some musicians offer their opinion about how they use new technologies on composing. Paul Simon had a small show where he performed "Graceland", "Mrs. Robinson", "The Boxer", "Me And Julio" and "Wartime Prayers".
PAUL IN MICHAEL BRECKER MEMORIAL
Last February 20 Simon performed a touching rendition of “Still Crazy”, with Herbie Hancock on piano, in the late Michael Brecker Memorial, that took place at New York Town Hall.
Nov 8 2006
SOME mp3s FOR YOUR PLEASURE
Below we have uploaded some old and new mp3s of Paul Simon’s live performances just for the pleasure of our friends. They all are really very appreciated by TDOM team. Enjoy them. Just click on the links. Please notice we have uploaded them only for your private use, so be honest and do not spread them all over internet, neither upload them on other websites or use them to get money.
1973. Sesame Street. “Ricardo The Cowboy” with young Harper
1984 January 13. New TV Show. “Hearts&Bones” with The Roches
2006 Sept 29. Mountain Music Lounge.”The Girl For Me”
2006 November 3. Glasgow. “Cecilia”
2006 Oct_Live Abbey Road. ”How Can You Live In The North East?”
Nov 7 2006
POSSIBLE GRAMMY NOMINATION FOR “SURPRISE” ALBUM!!!
Paul Simon’s “Surprise” album will be one of the nominated for Best Album of the Year on next Grammy Awards.
Acoording to Roger Friedman from FOX News, members of the Recording Academy must have their preliminary ballots all voted and back in by Thursday for this year's Grammy Awards. And then things get interesting.
The Best Album nominations are certain to include Gnarls Barkley's hit CD, "St. Elsewhere," and that album's single, "Crazy," is destined for the Best Record category. But beyond that, what?
The four other Best Album nominees could be Paul Simon's "Surprise," which actually was the best recording this year — although that doesn't really guarantee it anything in this age of diminished standards.
The three remaining slots could go to a variety of different offerings, including obvious but not definite choices like Bob Dylan's "Modern Times," the Dixie Chicks' "Taking the Long Way" and James Blunt's "Back to Bedlam." Expect Blunt to clean up at this year's awards, with nominations for Best New Artist, Best Song and Record for "You're Beautiful," in addition to Best Album. There's also Bruce Springsteen's "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions," which will be taken very seriously by voters.
Nov 4 2006
SIMON ON PARKINSON SHOW
Last Saturday November 4 Paul Simon performed “Father And Daughter” on BBC Parkinson Show
Nov 3 2006
STREAM OF PAUL´S PERFORMANCE ON “LIVE FROM ABBEY ROAD”
Amazon has uploaded on his site, at Surprise album section, a stream of Paul Simon´s performance of “How Can You Live In The North East?” that was recorded for Channel 4’s ‘Live From Abbey Road’.
Nov 2 2006
OFFICIAL WARNER SITE WITH PAUL VIDEOS
WBR has launched a new official website to promote “Surprise” album. There you can watch some live videos
Nov 1 2006
BACK TO THE TOWER
The US radio station WXPN aired live the Paul Simon´s concert at Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, which was the last venue from American Surprise Tour second leg. Our friends from the great site The Sound Of Simon have recorded that concert from the radio and they uploaded it on their website. You can download it on Noticias section of that site.
Oct 31 2006
VIDEOCLIP OF “OUTRAGEOUS”
To promote the forthcoming single “Outrageous” and to help the sales of “Surprise” album next Christmas at last it will be released the Videoclip “Outrageous, that was recorded several months ago. It is a bit strange clip in black & white, with a teen sthetic, where it only appears from Simon his own hand in the first minutes. You can watch that clip here:
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/wmedia/wmiuk%20/paulsimon/outrageousv_hi.asx
Oct 30 2006
“OUTRAGEOUS” SINGLE RELEASED AT LAST
Being actually scheduled as the 1st single from “Surprise” album, the release of “Outrageous” as single has been postponed and now definitively will be released next November 11 on two different formats:
- CD Single, on B-side “Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover”. It will include the new videoclip of outrageous
- Vinyl Single, the B-side will be “Slip Slidin´ Away”
Oct 29 2006
“SURPRISE” ALBUM OVER 800.000 COPIES
According to some sources and to WBR label, “Surprise”, the new Paul Simon’s album has sold over 800.000 copies all over the world.
NEW UPDATES ON THIS SITE
Uploaded some new articles in the sections How Was It Made / Interviews / Reviews. Next week the Surprise Tour section will be updated too.
Oct 28 2006
ICONOCLASTS
Sundance Channel TV will air next November 23 the program “Iconoclasts” where Paul Simon and his friend Lorne Michaels will appear dicussing about music, comedy, SNL and show business. Also they will visit their favourite restaurant in N. Y. city.
Oct 13 2006
EDIE´S LIVE CONGRATULATIONS TO PAUL FOR HIS BIRTHDAY
Last October 13 Simon’s wife, Edie Brickel, appeared promoting her new album on he Jay Leno´s Tonight Show. As she sang “No Dinero” she changed the lyrics and said: "Happy Birthday, to you Pablo, I'm thinking of you, on The Tonight Show".
Oct 10 2006
TWO STREAMS OF PAUL´S RADIO INTERVIEWS
You can download two new interesting radio interviews to Paul Simon.
1. New Ground program from KCRW radio. A 2 hours interview where Chris Douridas explores the career and music of Paul Simon. In a candid interview, Paul talks with Chris about meeting his long-time collaborator Art Garfunkel, the rise and demise of their legendary folk-pop duo, Simon and Garfunkel, and his more recent collaborations with Brian Eno ("Surprise") and Philip Glass ("Songs From Liquid Days"). In addition, Paul discusses his songwriting process, how his audience has evolved with him over the years, and going to Graceland (discovering global rhythms). You can listen to it here: http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/gz/gz060902paul_simon/
2. The Mountain Music Lounge, recorded at Key Arena prior to his show on September 29th, with John Fisher and Mike West. It includes live performances of “Graceland”, “Outrageous”, “Father And Daughter” and the first son Paul ever wrote “The Girl For Me”. You Can listen to it here:
http://eod.liquidviewer.com/kmtt-od/mml/092906_paulsimon/092906_paulsimon.asx
Oct 8 2006
PS / S&G ON SNL DVD
Next December 5 2006 the 1th season of the comedy show ´Saturday Night Live´ from 1975 will be released on DVD in the U.S.A. This also includes the 2nd episode on which Paul Simon was the host and musical guest, with special appearances by Simon and Garfunkel.
September 22 2006
SOME UPDATES ON THIS SITE
Some new pictures have been added from 2000-2006 years in the Picture section.
September 21 2006
AT LAST “OUTRAGEOUS” SINGLE RELEASE
Though actually it was scheduled as the first single from “Surprise” to be released, unknown reasons have postponed this single release, what finally will happen next November 13.
September 20 2006
U.S. TOUR SECOND LEG
Next September 26 the 2nd leg of US “Surprise Tour” will start. On most shows it will feature The Jerry Douglas Band in the opening slot. This time the tour will go to N.Y.C. and it will end on Philadelphia next October 24. The venues:
September
26. Vancouver, BC. Orpheum Theatre
27. Vancouver, BC. Orpheum Theatre
29. Seattle, WA. Key Arena
30. Portland, OR. Rose Garden
October
3. San Diego, CA. Embarcadero Marina Park South
4. Los Angeles, CA. Greek Theatre
6. Berkeley, CA. Greek Theatre - U.C. Berkeley
7. Santa Barbara, CA. Santa Barbara Bowl
10. Denver, CO. University of Denver - Magness Arena
12. Minneapolis, MN. Northrop Auditorium
16. Rosemont, IL. Rosemont Theatre
17. Detroit, MI. Fox Theatre
18. Toronto, ON. Hummingbird Centre for the Performance Arts
21. New York, NY. Radio City Music Hall
22. Boston, MA. Agganis Arena
24. Upper Darby, PA. Tower Theatre
THE ISLANDS TOUR
The forgotten “continental shelf”
It seems there will NOT be a “Surprise Tour” all over Europe. Paul Simon has decided to avoid the European continent and he will only tour on the islands (UK & Ireland).
The reasons maybe come from his wish of not to be away from his family too long, so Simon has decided to focus his European leg on UK, where his new album has got the best European sales by far, getting a Gold Disc.
The “islands mini-tour” venues are:
November 3, 2006. Glasgow, Scotland. SE & CC
November 4, 2006. Manchester, UK. M.E.N. Arena
November 6, 2006. Bournemouth, UK. BIC
November 8, 2006. Dublin, Ireland. The Point
November 10, 2006. London, UK. Wembley Arena
November 11, 2006. Birmingham, UK. NEC
September 18 2006
DELETED SIMON´S PERFORMANCE FROM JAMES TAYLOR DVD
Next October 3 it will be released a DVD of James Taylor´s Musicares Person of the Year Tribute. Though actually it was scheduled that it would include the Paul Simon’s performance on that show, finally for unknown reasons (that some sources point out to Simon’s himself), it will not appear on this DVD.
September 15 2006
2 HOURS OF PAUL INTERVIEW ON KCRW
On the “New Ground” program from KCRW Paul Simon was interviewed by Chris Douridas for 2 hours. He explores the career and music of Paul Simon. In a candid interview, Paul talks with Chris about meeting his long-time collaborator Art Garfunkel, the rise and demise of their legendary folk-pop duo, Simon and Garfunkel, and his more recent collaborations with Brian Eno ("Surprise") and Philip Glass ("Songs From Liquid Days"). In addition, Paul discusses his songwriting process, how his audience has evolved with him over the years, and going to Graceland (discovering global rhythms). You can listen to this great interview at: http://www.kcrw.com/show/gz
September 14 2006
NEW BOOK ABOUT PAUL SIMON IN SPANISH
The Spanish journalist Javier Marquez, a collaborator of this website, has just released a new book in Spanish about Paul Simon, named “Paul Simon. El maestro artesano” (Paul Simon. A handcraft master). This book is gifted free if you buy the September issue of Efe Eme magazine. If interested you can contact at www.efeeme.com
The book contains many pics and is focused on discussing Simon’s musical career, discography and songwriting.
September 12 2006
PAUL SIMON ON NEW TERRANCE SIMIEN CD
Last august 7 Ami Records released the new Terrance Simien album, named “Across the Parish Line”. On the track nº 3, entitled “You Used to Call Me”, Paul Simon sings along Terrance Simien.
September 8 2006
SURPRISE SALES ON US & UK
"Surprise," has sold 237,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album has got Gold Disc in UK. For more information about Surprise sales all over the world scroll down on this section.
August 26 2006
PAUL SIMON & EDIE BRICKEL BENEFIT CONCERT
Paul Simon and his wife Edie Brickell performed together last August 26 at Music Hall, Fair Park, Texas, trying to raise money for Edie’s childhood friend Robert C. Meadows, 43, a Dallas actor who suffered severe brain injuries last October after being attacked during a robbery in a parking lot near Bachman Lake. His assailants, who remain at large, left Mr. Meadows unable to walk or communicate and in need of more than $1.5 million in medical care and rehabilitation.
Paul & Edie did together a perfect opener: the Conway Twitty-Loretta Lynn classic "You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly." Later Paul Simon played acoustically "Bridge Over Troubled Water", “Slip Slidin' Away," "Me and Julio Down by the School Yard," "The Boxer" “Mrs. Robinson” and "Wartime Prayers," after that Edie with The New Bohemians played 10 songs.
August 22 2006
PAUL´S SOLO PERFORMANCE NOT INCLUDED ON BIG APPLE DVD
Last august 22 Rhino label released the DVD “From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: Madison Square Garden Concert (2006)”. It includes the following performances:
S&G: “Mrs. Robinson”; “Homeward Bound” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (with Aaron Neville on last verse).
Paul Simon & Jummy Buffet: “Sea Cruise”
By disgrace the Paul’s solo performance in this show of Jimmy Clanton’s "Just A Dream" has not been included.
August 5 2006
NEW JERRY LANDIS OLD RECORDINGS CD
Last august 5 the label Laserlight released a new CD named “Recorded As Jerry Landis”. It contains old recordings from the 1950s by Paul Simon under the aka of Jerry Landis. There are 18 tracks, some of which are unavailable elsewhere.
August 4 2006
UPDATES ON THIS SITE
After a short break for summer holydays we have uploaded the following new updates on this website for your pleasure:
- News: We have updated the news from July 1 to August 3. Please check them out below.