Paul Simon Retiring from Touring today: Feb 5, 2018

[CousinIT]

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[kentuck]

1. One of America's all-time great songwriter and musician.

Paul Simon is a legend.

[CousinIT]

3. He and Art and their music are an American Treasure

I wish both of them and their families well and hope they still live many more years with us. These are the people you wish could live forever. They can't, but their music will.

[underpants]

5. Fun fact

He and Lorne Michaels (SNL) were so close friends they bought apartments next to each other and had an open doorway between them.

[underpants]

2. Never seen him in concert but one of my all time favorite songs.

This was about art going to film Catch-22, a much underrated movie IMHO

[George II]

27. I loved that song back then, and now have a hard time distinguishing any from the others as....

...."my favorite".

Together they were amazing, naturals.

[underpants]

36. Tom and Jerry

Their original band name.

[George II]

38. You made me look up their wikipedia page - they first were signed by a record label in 1957 at 15...

....and once in college were known as "Kane and Garr", were first known as "Simon and Garfunkel" in 1964.

Amazing that they've been around, in one iteration or another, for 60 years!

[democratisphere]

4. Paul Simon is one of the Greatest ever.

[LuckyCharms]

23. Love this album. n/t

[democratisphere]

34. Me too! All time favorites!

[janterry]

6. He leaves the touring stage with such dignity

[Botany]

7. Thanx Paul .... you made my life better.

[MontanaMama]

8. Had the opportunity to see him

last summer. So glad I did. Thank you Paul.

[lpbk2713]

9. He is leaving, he is leaving.

But the fighter still remains.

[kentuck]

11. The Boxer

[panader0]

24. Me and my buddies cover this one--

[kentuck]

41. That's a cool cover panader0!

Y'all must have fun?

[RandomAccess]

40. One of my top favorites -- of SO many

esp. from that album

[Snotcicles]

10. He could sure tell a story.

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[Arkansas Granny]

12. This is a reminder of how fast time flies and how timeless music can be.

I have been listening Paul Simon's music for 50 years or so myself. A couple of weekends ago we had a family get together with one of my sons, my daughter and their children. At the end of the evening we were listening to and all singing along with the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album. I was surprised that they knew so many of the songs, but they reminded me that they have heard them since they were babies (my youngest assures me he remembers them from the womb).

[RandomAccess]

42. What thrills and fascinates me is

how timeless OUR music was/is, by which I mean the music of the late 50s, 60s and early 70s.

When i was a teenager, the music of any era prior to my own not only didn't interest me, but didn't interest too many people other than those of that era (i.e., my parents). That would've been Big Band, and some of the crossover stuff from Patti Page, Frank Sinatra, and the like. But most of that music simply did not endure. OURS has. It's not at all uncommon for concerts today from our old greats to be attended by today's teens and young people. NONE of us when I was young would have attended any Big Band concert!

I know not every generation since has good feelings about the Baby Boomers, but we changed the world, and our music alone changed the world. Sooo many great artists, brilliant musicians, so much wonderful music. It thrills me to listen to it, and I'm pretty sure it's not JUST because it's the music of my youth. I know there was something special about it that has enabled it to endure all these decades since -- and beyond.

[Arkansas Granny]

43. I grew up listening to big band music. That was the music of my dad's youth.

When my brother started high school in the mid 50's I was introduced to rock and roll. It has become the sound track to my life.

[Iggo]

13. Now I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone...

...going home.

[chelsea0011]

14. Luckily, I did get to see him perform a few times. I have always thought the Graceland Tour

was one of the greatest live events I had the pleasure of attending. His fairly recent tour with Sting was pretty damn good. And he is still making some decent music. Well, there is always Art who is still out there touring and I look forward to seeing in a few months.

[spanone]

16. I saw Paul and Art Garfunkel twice when it was just the two of them...

breathtaking...just Paul on the guitar.

[murielm99]

25. I saw them together, too.

I will never forget it.

[spanone]

15. A National Treasure....what a body of work

[lunasun]

17. RIP Vincent

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[Jim__]

18. Paul Simon at ground zero in NYC.

[bigtree]

19. whispered in the sounds of silence

...

[miyazaki]

20. Old Friends

Beautiful .

[smirkymonkey]

21. Kick!

I have loved him since I was a child!

[Hortensis]

22. Well, good for him, but now I know

we'll never see him live again, we won't be affording those occasional appearances, wherever they may be, and that's sad.

Nice post, Lunasun.

[SharonClark]

26. Timeless music.

What an honor it was to see him live.

[kentuck]

28. Kick

[moondust]

29. 8/28/83

Simon & Garfunkel
San Diego, CA, Jack Murphy Stadium



Loved it! (Grew up playing their songs on the guitar.)

[ailsagirl]

30. Darn

[barbtries]

31. i'm glad i got to see him.

he was 70 then and in amazing shape.

[Goonch]

32. Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo

[B Stieg]

33. And we're all still Looking for America

Thank you, Mr. Simon.

[longship]

35. From Graceland!

[underpants]

37. That is probably the best mainstream album ever.

I say that because they are a lot of really good albums from the "alternative" world.

Simply flawless

[longship]

39. Yup! Have another.

[struggle4progress]

44. The zoo