Author: Paul Simon
Publisher: Music Sales
ISBN: 9780825633157
Category : Folk-rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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(Music Sales America). 23 top songs from Simon's solo career as well as his days with Garfunkel. Includes: America * Graceland * A Hazy Shade of Winter * I Am a Rock * Kodachrome * Mother and Child Reunion * The Sound of Silence * Still Crazy After All These Years * You Can Call Me Al * more.

Author: Paul Simon
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780711979123
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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(Music Sales America). 14 of his best, arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord frames. Includes: The Boxer * Bridge Over Troubled Water * 59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy) * Homeward Bound * I Am a Rock * Mother and Child Reunion * Scarborough Fair/Canticle * The Sound of Silence * Still Crazy After All These Years * You Can Call Me Al * and more.

Author: Robert Hilburn
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501112139
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Acclaimed music writer Robert Hilburn’s “epic” and “definitive” (Rolling Stone) biography of music icon Paul Simon, written with Simon’s full participation—but without his editorial control—that “reminds us how titanic this musician is” (The Washington Post). For more than fifty years, Paul Simon has spoken to us in songs about alienation, doubt, resilience, and empathy in ways that have established him as one of the most beloved artists in American pop music history. Songs like “The Sound of Silence,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Still Crazy After All These Years,” and “Graceland” have moved beyond the sales charts and into our cultural consciousness. But Simon is a deeply private person who has said he will not write an autobiography or talk to biographers. Finally, however, he has opened up for Robert Hilburn—for more than one hundred hours of interviews—in this “brilliant and entertaining portrait of Simon that will likely be the definitive biography” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Over the course of three years, Hilburn conducted in-depth interviews with scores of Paul Simon’s friends, family, colleagues, and others—including ex-wives Carrie Fisher and Peggy Harper, who spoke for the first time—and even penetrated the inner circle of Simon’s long-reclusive muse, Kathy Chitty. The result is a deeply human account of the challenges and sacrifices of a life in music at the highest level. In the process, Hilburn documents Simon’s search for artistry and his constant struggle to protect that artistry against distractions—fame, marriage, divorce, drugs, record company interference, rejection, and insecurity—that have derailed so many great pop figures. “As engaging as a lively American tune” (People), Paul Simon is a “straight-shooting tour de force…that does thorough justice to this American prophet and pop star” (USA TODAY, four out of four stars). “Read it if you like Simon; read it if you want to discover how talent unfolds itself” (Stephen King).

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Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Music Sales Corporation
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 9780711985278
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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All the songs from the album arranged for piano, voice, and guitar, with complete lyrics and guitar chord boxes. Nineteen songs, including Graceland, The Obvious Child, Late In the Evening, Slip Slidin' Away, and more

Author: Simon & Garfunkel
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476818258
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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(Guitar Play-Along). The Guitar Play-Along Series will assist you in learning to play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the tab, listen to the audio to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. Includes 8 songs: The Boxer * Cecilia * A Hazy Shade of Winter * Homeward Bound * I Am a Rock * Mrs. Robinson * Scarborough Fair/Canticle * The Sound of Silence.

Author: Peter Ames Carlin
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1627790357
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames Carlin To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months after Elvis Presley ignited the rock era. As the songwriting half of Simon & Garfunkel, his work helped define the youth movement of the '60s. On his own in the '70s, Simon made radio-dominating hits. He kicked off the '80s by reuniting with Garfunkel to perform for half a million New Yorkers in Central Park. Five years later, Simon’s album “Graceland” sold millions and spurred an international political controversy. And it doesn’t stop there. The grandchild of Jewish emigrants from Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian empire, the 75-year-old singer-songwriter has not only sold more than 100 million records, won 15 Grammy awards and been installed into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame twice, but has also animated the meaning—and flexibility—of personal and cultural identity in a rapidly shrinking world. Simon has also lived one of the most vibrant lives of modern times; a story replete with tales of Carrie Fisher, Leonard Bernstein, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Shelley Duvall, Nelson Mandela, drugs, depression, marriage, divorce, and more. A life story with the scope and power of an epic novel, Carlin’s Homeward Bound is the first major biography of one of the most influential popular artists in American history.

Author: Paul Zollo
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306817993
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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A new collection of interviews with over forty groundbreaking songwriters, published on the 25th anniversary of the original landmark volume

Author: Paul Simon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780860013235
Category : Guitar music
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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America; Bookends; Bridge over troubled water; Cecilia; El, condor pasa; For Emily, whenever I may find her; Homeward bound; I am a rock; Kathy's song; Mrs. Robinson; Scarborough Fair/Canticle; The boxer; The 59th street bridge song (Feelin' groovy); The sound of silence

Author: Marc Eliot
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 0470900873
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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The definitive biography of legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon. Paul Simon, one of the country's most popular musicians, has been a dynamic creative force for more than half a century. Now New York Times bestselling biographer Marc Eliot draws on extensive research and original interviews to trace the incredible life and career of this iconic musician. Along the way Eliot examines Simon's early struggles to succeed as a singer-songwriter, the ups and downs of his decades-long collaboration with Art Garfunkel, his at-times obsessive admiration and competitive drive with Bob Dylan, his musical triumphs such as Still Crazy After All These Years and Graceland, the spectacular failure of his Broadway musical The Capeman, and much more. The first comprehensive biography of Paul Simon and his music Explores the complex relationship between Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel through years of their musical breakups and reunions Reveals personal details, with interviews, of Simon's life away from music Includes dozens of exclusive photographs, several published for the first time Whether you grew up listening to classic Simon and Garfunkel songs or came to love Paul Simon's music through his solo albums, this highly entertaining biography will give you a new understanding of this talented artist and the many surprising twists and turns of his life and work as a songwriter, a performer, and an icon of Boomer Generation.