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(111,111 posts)Paul Simon is a legend.
CousinIT
(9,301 posts)I wish both of them and their families well and hope they still live many more years with us. These are the people you wish could live forever. They can't, but their music will.
underpants
(183,149 posts)He and Lorne Michaels (SNL) were so close friends they bought apartments next to each other and had an open doorway between them.
underpants
(183,149 posts)This was about art going to film Catch-22, a much underrated movie IMHO
George II
(67,782 posts)...."my favorite".
Together they were amazing, naturals.
underpants
(183,149 posts)Their original band name.
George II
(67,782 posts)....and once in college were known as "Kane and Garr", were first known as "Simon and Garfunkel" in 1964.
Amazing that they've been around, in one iteration or another, for 60 years!
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,487 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)janterry
(4,429 posts)Botany
(70,697 posts)MontanaMama
(23,371 posts)last summer. So glad I did. Thank you Paul.
lpbk2713
(42,784 posts)But the fighter still remains.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)kentuck
(111,111 posts)Y'all must have fun?
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)esp. from that album
Snotcicles
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|Arkansas Granny
(31,548 posts)I have been listening Paul Simon's music for 50 years or so myself. A couple of weekends ago we had a family get together with one of my sons, my daughter and their children. At the end of the evening we were listening to and all singing along with the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album. I was surprised that they knew so many of the songs, but they reminded me that they have heard them since they were babies (my youngest assures me he remembers them from the womb).
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)how timeless OUR music was/is, by which I mean the music of the late 50s, 60s and early 70s.
When i was a teenager, the music of any era prior to my own not only didn't interest me, but didn't interest too many people other than those of that era (i.e., my parents). That would've been Big Band, and some of the crossover stuff from Patti Page, Frank Sinatra, and the like. But most of that music simply did not endure. OURS has. It's not at all uncommon for concerts today from our old greats to be attended by today's teens and young people. NONE of us when I was young would have attended any Big Band concert!
I know not every generation since has good feelings about the Baby Boomers, but we changed the world, and our music alone changed the world. Sooo many great artists, brilliant musicians, so much wonderful music. It thrills me to listen to it, and I'm pretty sure it's not JUST because it's the music of my youth. I know there was something special about it that has enabled it to endure all these decades since -- and beyond.
Arkansas Granny
(31,548 posts)When my brother started high school in the mid 50's I was introduced to rock and roll. It has become the sound track to my life.
Iggo
(47,622 posts)...going home.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)was one of the greatest live events I had the pleasure of attending. His fairly recent tour with Sting was pretty damn good. And he is still making some decent music. Well, there is always Art who is still out there touring and I look forward to seeing in a few months.
spanone
(136,006 posts)breathtaking...just Paul on the guitar.
murielm99
(30,803 posts)I will never forget it.
spanone
(136,006 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Jim__
(14,101 posts)bigtree
(86,040 posts)...
miyazaki
(2,266 posts)Beautiful .
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I have loved him since I was a child!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)we'll never see him live again, we won't be affording those occasional appearances, wherever they may be, and that's sad.
Nice post, Lunasun.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)What an honor it was to see him live.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)moondust
(20,042 posts)Simon & Garfunkel
San Diego, CA, Jack Murphy Stadium
Loved it! (Grew up playing their songs on the guitar.)
ailsagirl
(22,921 posts)barbtries
(28,827 posts)he was 70 then and in amazing shape.
Goonch
(3,629 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Thank you, Mr. Simon.
longship
(40,416 posts)underpants
(183,149 posts)I say that because they are a lot of really good albums from the "alternative" world.
Simply flawless
longship
(40,416 posts)struggle4progress
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