In 1974 Paul Simon visited Japan for the first time. According to the info we have found so far, he performed at the following dates:
1974-04-01 Osaka – Japan Festival Hall
1974-04-03 Osaka – Japan Festival Hall
1974-04-05 Aichi – Japan Ken Tai-iku-kan
1974-04-09 Tokyo – Japan Budokan
1974-04-10 Tokyo – Japan Budokan
The Japanese music magazine ‘Music Life'(1974/4) presented a letter by Paul Simon. dated February 25th 1974, in which he stated that he was soon to play in Japan and looking forward to his stay in Japan. The magazine has also an interview with Paul Simon, which I hope to be able to share with you soon. It is in Japanese and has to be translated.
As Kazunori points out in his comment in an earlier issue of Music Life, the first part of the interview was published.
In the May issue of Music Life an article of Paul Simon’s show was published. Thanks to Kaz we can now show you some pictures of this article:
The Pacific Stars and Stripes journal ran an interview with Paul Simon, during his Tokyo stay, on April 5th:
A couple of years ago a bootleg was released of one of the Japan shows:
– to be continued –
Paul Simon - 'Time it was...it was' 