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.
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