that Simon and Garfunkel wouldn’t do. “Mother and Child Reunion,” for example, is not a song that you would have normally thought that Simon and Garfunkel would have done. It’s possible that they might have. But it wouldn’t have been the same, and I don’t know whether I...
When I recount this to Simon, he says Fagen isn’t far from the truth. Simon’s parents were first-generation American Jews. His mother, Belle, taught at a Queens elementary school, and his father, Lou, was a professional musician who played the bass “to put food on the table.” The...
On 17 April 1954, Starkey’s mother married Harry Graves at the register office on Mount Pleasant, Liverpool. He was an ex-Londoner who had moved to Liverpool following the failure of his first marriage. Graves, an impassioned fan of big band music and their vocalists, introduced Starkey to...