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Homeward Bound - The Life Of Paul Simon
Paul Simon - Book - by Peter Ames Carlin
(2017)
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 immigrants from
Hungary, the nearly 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, the Grateful
Dead, 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.
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