Graceland began as jam sessions in South Africa. The Johannesburg recordings changed how Paul Simon wrote songs, with new chord variations and the Bagithi Khumalo bass lines shaping vocal melodies in ...
Paul Simon could have continued trading on the outsized successes of 1986’s Graceland. After all, the LP was as joyous as it ...
For all of the great poets that have come out of the folk world, it took a rock and roll legend to convince Paul Simon to get ...
In January 2019, Paul Simon awoke from a dream. Some voice in his head had informed him, deep within his REM cycle, that he was going to work on a project called “Seven Psalms.” The singer-songwriter ...
For Simon, "Graceland" was a labor of hope. The album came after some tumultuous years in the early '80s, which included his divorce from Carrie Fisher and two consecutive commercial flops with "One ...
The two-part docuseries 'In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon' is set to premiere on MGM+ on March 17, with the second part coming March 24 Sadie Bell was a digital news writer on the music ...