Paul Simon

Paul Simon first entered the music business with Art Garfunkel in the duo Tom And Jerry. In 1957, they scored a hit with the rock 'n' roll influenced 'Hey, Schoolgirl'. After one album, they split up in order to return to college. Simon he did not record again until the early 60s. Employing various pseudonyms, Simon enjoyed a couple of minor US hits during 1962-63 as Tico And The Triumphs ('Motorcycle') and Jerry Landis ('The Lone Teen Ranger'). After moving to Europe in 1964, he appeared at various folk clubs in London.
Upon returning to New York, he was signed to CBS Records by producer Tom Wilson and reunited with his erstwhile partner Art Garfunkel. Their 1964 recording, "Wednesday Morning, 3AM," which included 'The Sound of Silence' initially failed to sell, prompting Simon to return to London. While there, he made The Paul Simon Songbook, booking info, event, management, a solo work, recorded on one microphone.
Among its contents were several of Simon's most well-known compositions, including "I Am A Rock," "A Most Peculiar Man" and "Kathy's Song." The album was virtually ignored until Tom Wilson altered Simon's artistic stature overnight. Back in the USA, the producer grafted electric instrumentation onto Simon And Garfunkel's acoustic recording of "Sound of Silence," renamed it "The Sounds of Silence," and created a folk-rock classic that soared to the top of the US charts. Between 1965 and 1970, Simon And Garfunkel became one of the most successful recording duos in the history of popular music. The partnership ended amid musical disagreements and a realization that they had grown apart.
After the break-up, Paul Simon prepared a stylistically diverse solo album, "Paul Simon." The work spawned the hit singles "Mother And Child Reunion" and "Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard." One year later, Simon returned with the much more commercial "There Goes Rhymin' Simon," which enjoyed massive chart success and included two major hits, "Kodachrome" and "Take Me To The Mardi Gras." 1975 culminated in the chart-topping "Still Crazy After All These Years," which generated two Grammy Awards.
The wry "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover," provided Simon with his first US number 1 single as a soloist, while "My Little Town" featured a tantalizing duet with Garfunkel. A five-year hiatus followed during which Simon took stock of his career. He appeared briefly in Woody Allen's movie Annie Hall, recorded a hit single with Garfunkel and James Taylor ("(What A) Wonderful World") and released a Greatest Hits package.
In 1980, he released the ambitious "One-Trick Pony," from his movie of the same name. Meanwhile, a double-album live reunion of Simon And Garfunkel recorded in Central Park was issued and sold extremely well.
That situation altered during 1984 when Paul Simon was introduced to the enlivening music of the South African black townships. After an appearance at the celebrated USA For Africa recording of "We Are The World," Simon immersed himself in the music of the Dark Continent. "Graceland" was one of the most intriguing and commercially successful albums of the decade and spawned several notable hits, "The Boy In The Bubble", "You Can Call Me Al" and "Graceland".
Simon continued his pan-cultural investigations with "The Rhythm Of The Saints," which incorporated African and Brazilian musical elements. Simon then began work on his ambitious Broadway musical "The Capeman," based on the true story of Salvador Agron, a Puerto Rican gang member imprisoned for his part in the murder of two white teenagers in New York in 1959.
In 1999, Paul Simon toured on a double bill with Bob Dylan. His next album, "You're the One," was released in October 2000. It went gold and earned a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

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