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Paul Simon made an apt and graceful host for two ribbon-cutting concerts at the once bedraggled Beacon Theatre this weekend. In sprawling shows held Friday and Saturday night, Simon celebrated the completion of a badly needed, seven-month, $16 million cleanup job on this formerly sticky-floored, paint chip-strewn theater. Читать далее »
Paul Simon at Beacon theatre NYC 13.02.09 set list
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There were dozens of quasiarchaeological discoveries during the seven-month renovation of the 80-year-old Beacon Theater in Manhattan. The most telling, though, was the Folgers coffee can.
It had long been thought that a sparkly, 10-inch-wide, cut-crystal ball — the principal ornament at the tip of the 900-pound chandelier in the rotunda of the former movie palace — was attached with a sturdy bronze fixture. Читать далее »
Upcoming Casiotone for the Painfully Alone album “Advance Base Battery Life” will have a Paul Simon’s “Graceland” cover. “Advance Base Battery Life” is a compilation of singles and rarities from Owen Ashworth’s Casiotone for the Painfully Alone moniker. It collects rare songs from his long career, and features guests Concern and Dear Nora.
Vampire Weekend’s 2008 debut album was quick to draw frequent comparisons to Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ for its incorporation of African musical influences. But the band members are quick to dismiss the notion.
“In some ways the fact that it’s the only thing that comes up can be kind of frustrating,” said Vampire’s singer and guitarist Ezra Koenig in front of an audience at the TimesCenter on Saturday as part of the New York Times Arts and Leisure Weekend event. “It makes it sounds like that we’re totally one-dimensional, that all we do is rip off Paul Simon. Even from the early days that became like a thing. I think the first time [somebody] yelled ‘Paul Simon!’ That was in Omaha, Neb., and I was angry for the rest of the show.” Читать далее »
The early ’80s were an interesting time in the career of Paul Simon. The past glories of hits with Simon & Garfunkel - along with his sizable solo charting - were behind. And he had yet to reinvent himself as a world music maven with 1986’s fine Graceland. His 1980 album One-Trick Pony had yielded a hit with “Late in the Evening,” but the semi-autobiographical film of the same name, in which Simon showcased his acting chops, was widely panned.So this 1980 concert at Philadelphia’s Tower Theater (which has already been previously released on DVD) finds Paul at the precipice. And musically, it was a good, loose place to be.
Never the most demonstrative of live performers, Simon is nonetheless in fine voice on the 11 numbers that survey his career to this point, in front of an appreciative Philly crowd. His soaring take on “Still Crazy After All These Years” is particularly fine, before the song had become the ubiquitous calling card for middle aged men facing mortality. Читать далее »
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