Last part of the Farewell Tour starts tonight

For those who have a chnace to visit these or one of thes, do not hesitate: GO and enjoy a great concert

SEPTEMBER 07, 2018 Tampa, FL Amalie Center
SEPTEMBER 08, 2018 Ft. Lauderdale, FL BB&T Center
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 Orlando, FL Amway Center
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 Atlanta, GA Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018 Washington, DC Capital One Arena
SEPTEMBER 15, 2018 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 Pittsburgh, PA PPG Paints Arena
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 Queens, NY Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Enjoy!

Paul Simon at the Jacquard Club, Mischief Tavern, Fye Bridge Street, Norwich, on August 24 1965.

In the last part of 1965 Paul Simon was playing the English folk-circuit “at full speed”. On August 24 he played at the Jacquard Club in Norwich.

Paul Simon 1965-08-24

Luckily pictures were taken and saved all these years. Read all about it on http://www.edp24.co.uk/features/revealed-the-photographs-that-tell-the-story-of-paul-simon-s-1965-norfolk-gig-1-4805334

 

1964/1965: Paul Simon at The Peanuts Club

In 1964/1965:

Peanuts Club

“Paul Simon sang at the Peanuts a few times, his sweet, earnest voice and American accent seducing his listeners into rapt attention. I remember ‘Scarborough Fair‘ and ‘Hello darkness my old friend’ in particular, both specially coined for us in London, or so it seemed. He also sang at the folk club at the Railway Inn, in Brentwood, Essex, run by Dave McCausland and at the White Swan in Romford’s marketplace, which was run by Vince J. Docherty. I visited both of these on occasion, and knew many of the regulars well -– which included one Kathy Chitty, who sat behind the table at the door of the Brentwood club, a shy elf-girl taking admission money. Paul and Kathy fell in love, as is very well known. He would board the train from Liverpool Street after Peanuts sessions to get homeward bound back to Brentwood, where he lived with the McCausland family for a few months. It was the same one I took to return to Romford, which is on the way.”

Source: https://thepeanutsclub.blogspot.com/

If anyone has more exact dates to these perfomances, please write!

Paul Simon “The life” biography published on May 8th

paul-simon-9781501112126_lgOn May 8th Simon & Schuster will publish ” Paul Simon – The Life ” written by Robert Hilburn.

Praise for this book:

“In this detailed recounting of the life of Paul Simon, veteran biographer Robert Hilburn delivers a lively, eye-opening tale of the evolution of a doo-wop kid from Queens into an international musical phenomenon. Best of all, Hilburn’s telling runs at just the right pace as it brings us inside Simon’s personal life, as well as inside his music—often song by song—while illuminating Simon’s ingenious adaptations of music from all over the world.” —Billy Collins

Go here for further information.

 

 

A cancelled concert in 1966

Thanks to Lars Fyledal from Sweden we now know that Simon & Garfunkel were booked for a concert on July 3rd 1966 in Sweden’s Liseberg (Gothenburg).

According to Lars the concert was cancelled because of throat problems of Paul Simon.

A Swedish newspaper writes:

Liseberg snuvas på Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel är bokade för en spelning på Pop In söndagen den 3 juli. Duon, bestående av Paul Simon och Art Garfunkel, slog igenom något år tidigare med The Sound of Silence och kommer till Göteborg som en av USA:s hetaste akter.

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Men någon spelning blir det inte. Paul Simon får problem med halsen och tvingas kasta in handduken. Därför hamnar Simon & Garfunkel på listan över ”världsstjärnor som nästan uppträdde på Liseberg”.

Lars translates it for us:

Liseberg (Gothenburg) loses Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel is booked for a concert in Pop In on sunday the 3d of July. The duo, consisting of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, had a breakthrough some year earlier with The Sounds of Silence is coming to Gotheburg as one of the hottest acts in USA. But there was no gig. Paul Simon got problem with his throat and the gig is cancelled. Simon & Garfunkel gets on the list of “worldfamous stars that nearly performed at Liseberg”.

Was it realy a throat problem, because they did perform on July 3rd, in Stockholm:

1966-07-03 Tyrolen, Gröna Lund, Stockholm

 

“Bookends” – 50th Anniversary

Now 50 years ago, on the 3rd of April in 1968 Columbia released the album:

Bookends / Simon & Garfunkel

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Some facts:

Side A:

01 Bookends theme -> recorded in 1968 (no specific date known at this time)
02 Save the life of my child -> recorded / finsjed on December 14, 1967
03 America -> recorded/finished on February 1, 1968
04 Overs -> recorded/finished October 16, 1968
05 Voices of old people -> recorded/finished February 6, 1968
06 Old friends -> recorded 1968 )no specific date known at this time)
07 Bookends theme -> recorded in 1968 (no specific date known at this time)

Side B:

01 Fakin’ it-> recorded/finished June 1967
02 Punky’s dilemma -> recorded/finished October 5, 1967
03 Mrs. Robinson -> recorded/finshed February 2, 1968
04 A hazy shade of winter -> recorded/finished September 7, 1966
05 At the zoo -> recorded/finished January 8, 1967

Recorded in the same period but not on the album:

  • You don’t know where your interest lies

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Columbia 4-43873 Canad Side A

Side A is musical story of persons: from young, through growing up and ending the “old folks home”. Wonderful songs like Overs and America. Still after 50 years very intruiging. In 1968 one could only wonder….where will they take us next?

While side A is the conceptual part of the album, Side B is for the a compilation of (hit)singles they had released in the past year. With B-sides from “Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme”.

As far as I can tell there’s no new release coming to this anniversay , just like Legacy Recordings did with “Bridge over trobled water”. Which is shame, because there will be still some nice recordings in the archives of Columbia that did not make it to the album or even to vinyl at all. Songs like:

  • Groundhog

For now, enjoy one of the best albums of 1968!