“A song is capable of having several life spans”: The forgotten singer Paul Simon felt had immortal songs
Larger than life.
Paul Simon
The 1986 hit Peter Gabriel crowned “the most extraordinary lyrics ever written on a rock song”
“He’s written so many great songs.”
The one musician “nobody comes close to”, according to Paul Simon
The absolute peak of musicianship.
The 1986 song Paul Simon couldn’t stand performing: “I got to get out of here”
A little bit played out at this point.
“I didn’t even know what I was playing”: how Simon and Garfunkel stumbled into a 1968 classic
The track reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
The songwriter James Taylor crowned one of America’s greatest: “Such a broad palette”
“An unusually rich and full world…”
