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The definitive biography of legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon.
Paul Simon, one of the country's most popular musicians, has been a dynamic creative force for more than half a century. Now New York Times bestselling biographer Marc Eliot draws on extensive research and original interviews to trace the incredible life and career of this iconic musician. Along the way Eliot examines Simon's early struggles to succeed as a singer-songwriter, the...
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439 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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For more than fifty years, Paul Simon has spoken to us in songs about alienation, doubt, resilience, and empathy in ways that have established him as one of the most beloved artists in American pop music history. But Simon is a deeply private person who has resisted speaking to us outside of his music. He has said he will not write an autobiography or memoir, and he has refused to talk to previous biographers. Finally, Simon has opened up -- for more...
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xii, 415 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Recounts the life and achievements of the American music icon, detailing his youth as a grandchild of Jewish Hungarian immigrants, his celebrity relationships, and the definitive music that earned him fifteen Grammy Awards and two inductions into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame"--NoveList.
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...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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Long before they became one of the most beloved and successful duos of all time, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were just two kids growing up in Queens, New York -- best friends who met in a sixth-grade production of Alice in Wonderland and bonded over girls, baseball, and rock'n'roll.
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1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (21 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
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"In May of 2007 the Library of Congress gathered an unprecedented group of musicians together in Washington, D., to honor Paul Simon as the first recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song"--Container.
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