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Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for his solo work and his collaborations with Art Garfunkel. He and Garfunkel, whom he met in elementary school in 1953, came to prominence in the 1960s as Simon & Garfunkel. Their blend of folk and rock, including hits such as "The Sound of Silence" (1965), "Mrs. Robinson" (1968), "America" (1968), and "The Boxer" (1969), s…
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Born 13 October 1941 · Q4028
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I am grateful to be the recipient of the Gershwin Prize and doubly honored to be the first. I look forward to spending an evening in the company of artists I admire at the award ceremony in May. I can think of a few [artists] who have expressed my words and music far better than I [have]. I
“I am grateful to be the recipient of the Gershwin Prize and doubly honored to be the first. I look forward to spending an evening in the company of artists I admire at the award ceremony in May. I can think of a few [artists] who have expressed my words and music far better than I [have]. I”
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“I am going to see what happens if I let go”
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“s description was not far from the truth. He described his father as funny and smart, but said he worked late and did not see his children much. He recalls hearing”
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Far Out Magazine: The Paul Simon song that led to Steely Dan’s 1977 masterpiece: “I was very familiar”
NPR: New book explores the cultural impact of Paul Simon's signature album, 'Graceland'
The Washington Post: Paul Simon’s joyful ‘Graceland’ is turning 40. Does it deserve an asterisk?
Published video “Paul 🤝 @SesameStreet 🤝 @TheBeatles”.
Yahoo: All of Paul Simon's solo albums ranked
Published video “It's an absolutely vital human element 🎥: 1986”.
Published video “A look back at songs released in July over the years... Have a favorite?”.
Published video “Celebrating 10 years of #StrangerToStranger! What's your favorite track off this album?”.
The Guardian: Paul Simon review – at 84, back on stage after hearing loss, his resolute artistry is inspiring
Released album “2026-05-07: M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool, UK”.
Published video “Paul shares his thoughts on songwriting in an interview with @A@AustinCityLimitsTVn 2016.”.
Published video “Can you guess the Paul Simon music video from this intro by Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie?”.
Published video ““The Boxer” with Bobby ❤️ 🎥: San Francisco, 2019”.
Published video “You Can Call Me Care-Free”.
Published video “Celebrating over 50 years of #50WaystoLeaveYourLover!”.
Published video “Going to continue to quietly celebrate in some new places in 2026”.
American Songwriter: Why Paul Simon Believes He Will Always Come in Second to This Storied Artist
Released album “Acoustic & Unplugged (the classic 1992 broadcast)”.
The Guardian: ‘The fighter still remains’: Paul Simon kicks off comeback tour in New Orleans
Yahoo: Paul Simon, 83, announces new tour following ‘SNL 50,’ retiring from the road in 2018
Released album “Seven Psalms”.
Simon said his "two big influences" were New York City doo-wop and English folk music
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A viral post accurately retells the story behind Simon & Garfunkel's opening lyric of "Hello darkness, my old friend" to the song, "The Sound of Silence."” Mixture.
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Released album “Live in Zimbabwe 1987, Part One”.
Released album “Live in Zimbabwe 1987, Part Two”.
Returned to live performance when he closed San Francisco's Outside Lands festival in Golden Gate Park
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Released album “Rhymin’ in NYC”.
Released album “In the Blue Light”.
Released album “Graceland: The Remixes”.
Simon announced his intention to retire from touring, citing time away from his family and the death of longtime guitarist Vincent Nguini
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Simon released his 14th solo studio album, In the Blue Light, which consisted of re-recordings of lesser-known songs from his catalog, some with altered arrangements, harmonic structures and lyrics
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Released ep “Alternate Tunings / Rare and Unreleased”.
Released album “The Concert in Hyde Park”.
Released album “Live at Kaufman Astoria Studios, New York 1992”.
Released his 13th solo studio album, Stranger to Stranger, on Concord Records
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Released album “Stranger to Stranger”.
Released album “Live at Queens College 1964”.
Released album “Complete Unplugged”.
“s show Horace and Pete, which debuted on January 30, 2016. The song is heard during the show”
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Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
Released album “Original Album Classics”.
Dion released the single "New York Is My Home" with Simon
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With ten shows in Australia and New Zealand and 23 in Europe
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Simon embarked on a joint 21-date concert tour of North America, On Stage Together, with English musician Sting
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Released album “The Complete Albums Collection”.
Released album “Over the Bridge of Time: A Paul Simon Retrospective (1964–2011)”.
Simon performed at the funeral of Victoria Leigh Soto, a teacher killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
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Released album “Live in New York City”.
Awarded Polar Music Prize (2012).
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Released album “The Wobble (Paul Simon a.k.a. Jerry Landis)”.
Simon paid tribute to fellow musicians Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen, who had received the first annual PEN Awards for songwriting excellence at the JFK Presidential Library
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In May 2012, Paul Simon performed at a benefit dinner for the Turkana Basin Institute in New York City, raising more than $2 million for Richard Leakey's research institute in Africa.
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Simon released a 25th-anniversary box set of Graceland that included a remastered edition of the original album; the 2012 documentary film Under African Skies; the original 1987 "African Concert" from Zimbabwe; an audio
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In an interview reprinted in American Songwriter, Simon discussed the craft of songwriting and talked about the basic themes in his lyrics—love, family, social commentary, religion, spirituality, and God
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Released album “Songwriter”.
Released ep “iTunes Festival: London 2011”.
And Simon said it was the best work he had done in 20 years
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Released album “So Beautiful or So What”.
Simon was introduced to Italian electronic dance music artist Clap
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When Simon was touring So Beautiful or So What in Italy
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Simon performed a song that commemorated the show's 25 years, an update of a song he wrote for its 10th anniversary
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Released album “The Early Years”.
Released album “You're the One: In Concert From Paris”.
Released album “This Better Be Good”.
Released album “The Library of Congress: Gershwin Prize for Popular Song”.
Released album “The Essential Paul Simon”.
Awarded Gershwin Prize (2007).
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Simon was the inaugural recipient of the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, and he later performed as part of a gala of his work
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Released album “The Capeman: Original Broadway Cast”.
Released album “Surprise”.
It was added to the United States' National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthetically important"
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Released album “The Studio Recordings 1972–2000”.
Simon's studio albums were re-released both individually and as a collection in a limited-edition, nine-CD boxed set, Paul Simon: The Studio Recordings 1972–2000
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Released album “Selections From Paul Simon: The Studio Recordings (1972-2000)”.
Simon and Garfunkel performed together again when they received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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Released album “The Paul Simon Collection: On My Way, Don't Know Where I'm Goin'”.
Wrote and recorded "Father and Daughter", the theme song for the animated family film The Wild Thornberrys Movie
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Awarded MusiCares Person of the Year (2001).
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2001).
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And the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize in 2007
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Which he humorously referred to in "Old" from You're the One
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Released album “You’re the One”.
Released album “1999-07-30: Jones Beach Amphitheatre, Wantagh, NY”.
Released album “Greatest Hits: Shining Like a National Guitar”.
Simon wrote and recorded a new album, You're the One, very quickly
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“re the One, very quickly. The album was released in October and consisted mostly of folk-pop writing combined with foreign musical sounds, particularly grooves from North Africa. The album received favorable reviews, reached both the British and American Top 20, and received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. Simon toured extensively to promote it, and one performance in Paris was released to home video. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in America, Simon sang”
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Released album “Graceland: The African Concert”.
Embarked on a three-month North American tour with Bob Dylan, in which he and Dylan alternated as the headline act with a middle section where they performed together
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Released album “Live in Denver 1999”.
Awarded Johnny Mercer Award (1998).
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Simon wrote a Broadway musical, The Capeman, that was poorly received
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Released album “Songs From The Capeman”.
Featured in the Annie Lennox version of his 1973 song "Something So Right", which appeared briefly on the UK Top 50 after it was released as a single
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Released album “Unplugged”.
Simon appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and performed the song "Ten Years", which he had composed for the show's tenth anniversary
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Released album “Medical Benefit Concert at the Madison Square Garden: New York, U.S.A. December 13, 1987, Part 2”.
Released album “His Greatest Hits - Live in Concert”.
Released album “Peacelands”.
Released album “1964–1993”.
Released album “Live USA”.
Released album “The Paul Simon Anthology”.
Released album “Homeless Children’s: Medical Benefit Concert”.
Simon performed on an episode of MTV Unplugged
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Released album “MTV Unplugged”.
Simon and his band were invited to play in South Africa by Nelson Mandela
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Released album “Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park”.
Gave a second concert in Central Park, with African and South American bands
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Without Garfunkel, which approximately 500,000 people attended
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Released album “Born at the Right Time: The Best of Paul Simon”.
Released album “The Rhythm of the Saints”.
Released album “Paul Simon Plus”.
Simon appeared on Dion's song "Written on the Subway Wall"/"Little Star" from Yo Frankie, which peaked at number 97 in October 1990
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Released album “Negotiations and Love Songs: 1971–1986”.
Released album “Graceland”.
Simon was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music, where he had served on the board of trustees
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Simon released his most successful and acclaimed album, Graceland, incorporating South African influences
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Traveled to Johannesburg and recorded with African musicians
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Released album “Hearts and Bones”.
Released Hearts and Bones as a solo album
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Appeared in an episode of The Muppet Show, the only episode of the series to use the songs of one songwriter
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Released album “Collected Works”.
“[Rock 'n' roll] really is not given to thinking — and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.”
“There was always some kind of strain, but it was workable. The bigger you get, the more of a strain it is, because in your everyday life, you're less used to compromising. As you get bigger, you have your own way. But in a partnership you always have to compromise. … When you get into a partnership, you're not the boss. There's no boss. That makes it hard.”
Simon & Garfunkel included eight songs from Simon's solo career in the set list of their September 19 concert in Central Park
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Released album “Live ’n’ Late in the Evening: Tower Theater, Philadelphia PA 7th Oct 1980 – Remastered”.
Released album “One‐Trick Pony”.
Simon released One-Trick Pony, his first album with Warner Bros
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Released album “Greatest Hits, Etc.”.
And a cameo appearance in the song "Put Down the Duckie
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Simon put together a benefit show at Madison Square Garden for the New York Public Library that raised over $30,000
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Released album “Still Crazy After All These Years”.
Released album “Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin’”.
Released album “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon”.
Released album “Paul Simon”.
“Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”
Simon taught songwriting at New York University
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"I had a lot of friends there and a girlfriend
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Released album “The Graduate: The Original Sound Track Recording”.
After the album's release, Simon moved to London and performed in folk clubs
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Released album “The Paul Simon Songbook”.
Studied at Brooklyn Law School, not completed (1963–1964).
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Studied at Queens College (1959–1963).
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Simon reached number 97 on the pop charts as Jerry Landis, with the novelty song "The Lone Teen Ranger"
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Studied at Forest Hills High School, high school diploma (1958).
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In their mid-teens, they recorded the song "Hey, Schoolgirl" under the name "Tom & Jerry", a name given to them by their label, Big Records
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Came to prominence in the 1960s as Simon & Garfunkel
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His family moved to the Kew Gardens Hills section of Flushing, Queens, in New York City
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Born 1941-10-13.
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In Newark, New Jersey, to Hungarian-Jewish parents
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