Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Slip Sliding Away
The New York Times: VIENNA, Va. — Paul Simon says he is ready to give up making and playing music, 61 years after he started as a 13-year-old. “You’re coming towards the end,” he said in an interview this week, discussing the mysterious epiphanies that delivered some of his greatest songs, the toxic qualities of fame, and his yearning to explore questions of spirituality and neuroscience.
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No one can say he hasn't earned it. Anyone who can write "Sounds of Silence", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", and "Graceland" (among so many others) deserves to retire on his own terms.
Just after releasing the magnificent Stranger to Stranger...I'm not sure I believe him...
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