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...
Paul Simonput down his guitar and put on a black baseball glove. “This is like two miles from where I played high school baseball,” he said. “It’s little dark out, but you know what? I’m going to play a quick game of catch.” He then lobbed the ball...
The two musicians reconvened for a brief runthrough of a relaxed but enjoyable “Love Is the Seventh Wave” and an equally relaxed but warm and winning “Mother & Child Reunion.” Then Sting patted Paul Simon on the back and headed backstage, leaving Paul Simon and his band to take 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...
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...