paul simon

     

His 1973 hit "Love Me Like a Rock" featured the Dixie Hummingbirds on vocal backup

Trivia about paul simon

  • In the 1957 group known as Tom & Jerry, Tom was Art Garfunkel & he was Jerry
  • He recorded "Gone At Last" with Phoebe Snow, not Art Garfunkel
  • In 1987 he took his Graceland tour to Africa where the concert was captured on film
  • In a '70s song:"...She kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be 50 ways to leave your lover"
  • "Still Crazy After All These Years"
  • In 2003 he & Art Garfunkel broke their "Sounds of Silence", reuniting for the Grammys & a new tour
  • He's had 4 No. 1 hits: 1 solo & 3 with Art Garfunkel
  • In a 1978 song he was "Slip Slidin' Away"
  • He was "Feelin' Groovy" as an Illinois senator from 1985 to 1997
  • He recently collaborated on his first musical, "The Capeman"; maybe there's a part for Art
  • This New Jersey-born singer-songwriter has had 13 solo Top 40 hits
  • His song told of "People talking without speaking... people writing songs that voices never share"
  • "Hearts and Bones","Graceland"
  • One of his many South African-themed songs from 1986's "Graceland" was "Under African Skies"
  • 1970:Him for "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
  • In 1975 he was "Still Crazy After All These Years"
  • "The Capeman", this songwriter's musical about a killer, opened to protests, not to "Sounds of Silence"
  • He may be an expert on “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”, but in 1992 he married singer Edie Brickell
  • He's no one-trick pony: he wrote the screenplay & score & starred in "One-Trick Pony"
  • Carrie Fisher,Edie Brickell
  • He won the Democratic presidential primary in Illinois in 1988; no big surprise, he was their senator
  • This U.S. senator from Illinois had a penchant for bowties
  • "Mother And Child Reunion"(1972)
  • In 1977 he was "Slip Slidin' Away" into acting, making his debut as Tony Lacey in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall"
  • His 1965 "Songbook" album includes solo versions of "I Am A Rock" & "The Sound Of Silence"
  • The South African band Ladysmith Black Mambazo sang on his song "Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes"