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Simon, Paul (1941—)
As one half of the 1960s folk-rock team, Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Simon's place in pop music history as a first rate songwriter was sealed. But after Simon's ...
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Paul Simon (born 1928) was a newspaper publisher, state legislator, lieutenant governor, and U.S. representative and senator, serving a total of 22 years in Congress. He was a "self-made" man who rose...
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Critical Essay by Stefan Kanfer
Instead of following the mainstream of the major popular lyricists, Paul Simon seems to have skipped Freshman Composition (Lorenz Hart, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein) ...
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Critical Essay by Harold F. Mosher, Jr.
Perhaps the most convincing way to demonstrate that the best of rock lyrics are effective poetry is to show how skillfully certain techniques are used to develo...
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Critical Essay by Bruce Pollock
While Bob Dylan stands as the central figure, the one who woke this sleeping giant of a generation determined not to go silent, none of the other poet laureates of the ...
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Critical Essay by Colin Irwin
Paul Simon has developed into possibly the most perfect craftsman of songs on this planet. Even the later Simon and Garfunkel material included its share of dross, but th...
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Critical Essay by Ellen Willis
The first pop performers to straddle the generation gap were Simon and Garfunkel…. Paul Simon (he writes the songs; Art Garfunkel arranges them) became a "...
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Critical Essay by Joel Vance
Once in a very great while, a "greatest hits" package actually does represent a performer's artistic peaks as a performer, and that is the case [with ...
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Simon, Paul (1941—)
Paul Simon
Critical Essay by Stefan Kanfer
