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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Sheila Simon has come a long way since her first speech at a political picnic."Thanks for the hot dogs," she recalls muttering as a teen after being prompted to say a few words by her father, popul...
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Gilberto Gil, who revolutionized Brazilian music in the 1960s as a founder of the Tropicalism movement, will resign his post as culture minister next year after tests revealed a potentially career-...
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Madonna wore a T-shirt proclaiming "Love" and danced to the rhythm of a pop song at the opening of a day care center Thursday, one of the projects she's funding in Malawi.The 48-year-old singer, wh...
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For rock'n'roll fans who like to travel, there's a new guide from Santa Monica Press: "Led Zeppelin Crashed Here," by Chris Epting ($16.95).In fact, the book is fun to leaf through even if you don'...
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Zap Mama, "Supermoon" (Heads Up International)Zap Mama is constantly exploring new identities. What started as an all-female a cappella project evolved through various personnel changes and Grammy ...
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Jeffrey Carter Albrecht, a keyboard player for the band Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, was shot to death early Monday while trying to kick in the door of his girlfriend's neighbor, police said....
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Question 1 of 10:
Barbara
was just 17 when she started performing folk songs in
Edinburgh
nightspots. But what was her day job?WaitressDancing student
Office clerk
Student nurseQuestion 2 of 10...
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An Early Experiment
Chris
Morris
had an impeccable upbringing. Raised by doctor parents, he attended a Jesuit boarding school and went on to gain a degree in zoology. Swiftly landing a job at BBC...
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(Reuters) - Iowa's caucuses, the first formal
contest to select the Democratic and Republican nominees for
the U.S. presidential election, will take place Jan. 3. Following is a history of the Iow...
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Simon, Paul (1941—)
Paul Simon
Critical Essay by Stefan Kanfer
Sen. Paul Simon's child runs for mayor
