[2016-10-11] Paul Simon "Homeward Bound" hardcover by Peter Ames Carlin

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jun 16, 2016 2:21 pm

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To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months after Elvis Presley ignited the rock era. As the songwriting half of Simon & Garfunkel, his work helped define the youth movement of the '60s. On his own in the '70s, Simon made radio-dominating hits. He kicked off the '80s by reuniting with Garfunkel to perform for half a million New Yorkers in Central Park. Five years later, Simon’s album “Graceland” sold millions and spurred an international political controversy. And it doesn’t stop there.

The grandchild of Jewish immigrants from Hungary, the nearly 75-year-old singer-songwriter has not only sold more than 100 million records, won 15 Grammy awards and been installed into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame twice, but has also animated the meaning―and flexibility―of personal and cultural identity in a rapidly shrinking world.

Simon has also lived one of the most vibrant lives of modern times; a story replete with tales of Carrie Fisher, Leonard Bernstein, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Shelley Duvall, Nelson Mandela, the Grateful Dead, drugs, depression, marriage, divorce, and more. A life story with the scope and power of an epic novel, Carlin’s Homeward Bound is the first major biography of one of the most influential popular artists in American history.

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Emilio · 02 Oct 2006

I'm listening to the audiobook and enjoying it so far, but I have found two errors. The author mentions "Rag Doll", recorded by Garfunkel, as a Four Seasons song. I didn't know about it, so I decided to check it. Indeed, there is a Four Seasons song by that title, but it is not the song Garfunkel recorded. The other mistake seems minor to me: he says Garfunkel's "Watermark" was released on the same day as Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years". This was probably just a mix-up, he meant "Breakaway". Still, when you find errors like these you realize the biographer probably decided to tackle the job with little if any prior knowledge of the subject. Or maybe he knows a lot about Paul Simon but not as much about Garfunkel.

[2016-10-11] Paul Simon "Homeward Bound" hardcover by Peter Ames Carlin

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