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	Paul Simon - Surprise : album review
		Surprise is Paul Simon's first album in six years, and sees him team up with another elder statesman of music in Brian Eno (credited, rather pretentiously, as 'sonic landscaper' rather than mere producer).
		Despite the anxiety and insecurities on display here though, it's clear that Simon is a man who's found redemption in the arms of his family.
		There's the quiet contemplation of I Don't Believe with children laughing and Simon's love "brushing her long chestnut hair" and the rather icky tale of adopting children from all over the world in Beautiful.
	www.musicomh.com /albums5/paul-simon_0506.htm (696 words)

	Paul Simon (album)
		Paul Simon released his self-titled album in January of 1972, (see 1972 in music) about two years after he split up with musical partner Art Garfunkel.
		Simon expertly balances the dark with the light throughout the album, in both words and music, and never appears to favour either side.
		Of course, the albums of Simon and Garfunkel and the later works of Paul Simon share similarities with this album.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Paul_Simon_(album).html (692 words)

	Paul Simon Criticism
		Paul Simon's long and manicky struggle between his songs of endearing but forced whimsy and his confessions of unhappiness and loneliness is over, with the latter, in fully-developed form, the victor.
		Simon's first solo album [Paul Simon] is also his least detached, most personal and painful piece of work thus far—this from a lyricist who has never shied away from pain as subject or theme….
		Simon believes that at times this has been a valid criticism, that occasionally they have done a song so cleanly that it's distracted; that the performance has made it appear there was a lack of feeling, even though this was not the case when the song was written.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Paul_Simon (1580 words)

	Paul Simon Album Reviews
		Simon ingeniously uses percussion, accordion, horns, reeds, and backing vocals throughout the album, and he merges many disparate musical elements into a seamlessly simple sound (impeccably produced as always by Hallee) that can only be called pop music.
		Simon tried to paint a sympathetic portrait of the killer, feeling that his harsh environment had played a major role in the tragedy (and the killer had allegedly rehabbed himself in jail), but few people, least of all the understandably outraged victims' families, wanted to hear that side of the story.
		As with all of his albums, however, this one grew on me with repeat listens, once I got used to the Eno-ized contrasts, as distorted guitars, electronic rhythms, and a highly modernized funkiness aren't the types of things I'm used to hearing on a Paul Simon album.
	www.geocities.com /sfloman/paulsimon.html (2913 words)

	CLUAS Indie Album Reviews: Paul Simon 'Surprise' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		From his partnership with Art Garfunkel to 2006’s Surprise Paul Simon has seen and done it all, and he’s not lost anything in all the years he’s been going.
		The tunes are generally smooth and chilled out, relaxing whilst maintaining that energetic and wholesome unique edge that Paul Simon has chiselled and made his own over the past forty years or so.
		Paul Simon’s Surprise is an awesome album that’s been approached with tender loving care but sounds effortless, but even after all these years it’s no surprise that this is brilliant.
	www.cluas.com /music/albums/paul-simon-surprise.htm (369 words)

	Paul Simon Review
		So it is with Paul Simon’s album You’re the One, which could only have been produced at this moment, the opening of his fifth decade as one of the standard bearers of songwriting.
		At its core, You’re the One is a fusion of two distinct eras in Simon’s music: the intimate conversational poetry and sophisticated harmonies of ’70s solo albums like Still Crazy After All These Years and the percolating beats of his world-music triumphs The Rhythm of the Saints and Graceland.
		On "Old," Simon revisits his rockabilly roots (strumming an electric guitar, as he does on much of the album) and offers a wry comeback to friends who say he’s getting on in years.
	www.jeffreypepperrodgers.com /Simonreview.htm (583 words)

	Paul Simon You're The One CD review on AudioRevolution.com
		Paul Simon is one of the last real commercially viable singer/songwriters from the ‘60s.
		Paul Simon has never been a vocal virtuoso and on this album he comes across more as a beat-poet than a singer.
		There are enough pop hooks and elements to Simon’s music to ensure that the listener will not feel as if he or she is being led into the African veldt without a tour guide or map to find the bridge (or the chorus) back.
	www.avrev.com /music/revs/paulsimon.shtml (612 words)

	Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon
		Simon has triumphantly relocated his sensibility in the general scheme of things: as a musician, as a poet of the American tragedy, and most importantly as a family man.
		Viewed in the light of the first album, Simon seems ultimately to be saying that acceptance of death is only possible through our ability to honor our human ties, especially those formed within the family structure.
		Simon returned to the kind of vocal pyrotechnics heard on the Simon and Garfunkel records by using gospel singers.
	www.superseventies.com /spsimonpaul2.html (1360 words)

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		Paul McCartney [I]s planning his frist tour in eight yeas with a string og impromptu show around the world.
		Simon´s ´You´re The One´ tour started on October 16th 2000 in Sweden, he had two sold-out nights at Stockholm´s Globe Annex.
		Paul and a 2 man band rehearsed in Manhattan.
	www.lycos.com /info/tours--paul-simon.html (274 words)

	Paul Simon - Songs from The Capeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Paul Simon's new album is a tour through the music of his past (as well as of the broadway show he co-penned with poet Derek Walcott), as he mines the sounds of doo wop, reggae, latin salsa, the girl groups of Phil Spector, the jump blues of bands like (the original) Wallflowers (i.e.
		I just wish at times the instrumentation could be fleshed out a bit, and that the album didn't have the sparse emptiness that seems to pervade albums of Broadway show tunes (and I don't mean the bloated Miss Saigons of today, but the quieter Fantasticks of the past).
		This is not the Paul Simon of Rhythm of the Saints, (in fact, the album it most makes me think of in his oeuvre is Hearts and Bones) but this musical melting pot (as syphoned through Simon) is interesting in its own right.
	members.aol.com /eugkuo/html/newbio/records/reviews2/capeman.html (260 words)

	Rhythm of the Saints - Paul Simon - Song Listings
		Though he recorded the album's prominent percussion tracks in Brazil, Paul Simon fashioned The Rhythm of the Saints as a deliberate follow-up to the artistic breakthrough and commercial comeback that was the South Africa-tinged Graceland.
		Further, Simon's nonlinear lyrical approach was carried over: he continued to ruminate about love, aging, and the onslaught of modern life in disconnected phrases and images that created impressions rather than telling straightforward stories.
		No Paul Simon album could be lacking in craft or quality, and The Rhythm of the Saints was a typically tasteful effort.
	www.mp3.com /albums/14568/summary.html (593 words)

	NPR : Paul Simon on Songwriting and 'Surprise'
		Paul Simon's new album is Surprise, a collaboration with producer Brian Eno.
		All Things Considered, May 8, 2006 · Paul Simon says some people describe his songwriting process as being "backward." He often comes up with the musical accompaniment, he says, and only then finds a melody and writes lyrics.
		NPR 100: The Importance of Paul Simon's 'Graceland'
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5388038 (247 words)

	Amazon.ca: Paul Simon Album Broadway Sin: Music: Various Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		I also think Paul Simon is one of the musical geniuses of the late 20th/early 21st century.
		The beauty of a Paul Simon song is how its seeming impassivity quietly works its way into your psyche, until you suddenly realize that he's uncovered a subliminal truth.
		As much as I appreciate the desire to pay homage to Paul Simon's many musical gifts, this was an idea that never should've made it out of the production booth.
	www.amazon.ca /Paul-Simon-Album-Broadway-Sin/dp/B00000AG9U (330 words)

	Paul Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Simon's material from this period is clean as a whistle, A Church is Burning sounds like it was written by a Christian.
		Paul Simon is also too pretentious here to name a song Feeling Groovy, resulting in the unwieldy title the 59th Street Bridge Song and confusing lots of potential consumers.
		Simon and Garfunkel largely ignored contemporary trends in popular music in the late sixties, such as drug references, psychedelia and guitar heroes.
	members.tripod.com /mrtrout0/simon.htm (2125 words)

	Paul Simon: You're the One (2000): Reviews
		With You're the One, Paul Simon is back on track, writing and recording timeless music that keeps him on par with Neil Young and David Bowie, but in his comforting familiar way.
		On his new album, You're the One, the singer's lyrics are masterful as ever, but their emotional punch is compromised considerably by syrupy melodies and uninspired production.
		Simon aims his melodies outside the box this time around, incorporating world-beat rhythms and working his sublimely dour mood to best advantage.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/simonpaul/yourethe1 (714 words)

	Paul Simon News
		WHILE Paul Simon and Brian Williams partied with Lorne Michaels and his "Saturday Night Live" crew under the towering tyrannosaurus and brontosaurus skeletons at the American Museum of Natural History's...
		A curtain pulled across the rear third of Wembley Arena may have been grim testament to Paul Simon's commercial decline, but one of the cornerstones of 20th Century popular music was never going to be...
		Paul Simon turned 65 a few weeks ago, but it didn't seem like a big deal.
	www.topix.net /who/paul-simon (588 words)

	Caught between rock and a hard place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Paul Simon has gone back to his roots and written a musical.
		Frankly, it's a relief to both of us that, along with his alleged retirement as a performer, Simon has abandoned the struggle to maintain the persona of a "rock star": the few wisps on top of his head are indisputably his.
		Otherwise, the view on Broadway is that Simon, with his reputation for "arrogance" and as a "control freak", has disdained their expertise.
	paul.simon.org /multimedia/telegraph.htm (1822 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Surprise: Music: Paul Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		It pre-dates the other songs on this album and middle-aged men writing songs about their kids is not a recipe for greatness but here it somehow works.
		For him to produce an album as good as this after such a long and excellent career is amazing, and very, very welcome.
		The Rhythm of the Saints ~ Paul Simon
	www.amazon.co.uk /Surprise-Paul-Simon/dp/B000F0UV1S (1438 words)

	Paul Simon : The Paul Simon Songbook - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		The first album to use this title is one of the most mysterious in Paul Simon's output and almost belongs more with Simon & Garfunkel's discography, given its 1965 recording date.
		While he was in London, he found himself in demand as a visiting American "folksinger" (though Simon's credentials in this area were rather limited), began building up a following in the coffeehouses, and was eventually pegged for a performing spot on the BBC.
		Suddenly, there were requests for Paul Simon recordings, of which there were none -- as a result of his being signed to Columbia Records in America, however, he was brought into the London studios of British CBS and recorded this album with only his acoustic guitar for backup.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,163255,00.html (272 words)

	The Yellow Subterfuge » Paul Simon’s New Album: “Surprise” gets a 14.0/16
		Simon’s come a long way from the S&G days where almost every song had to be something profound and preachy.
		It is just a video interview with Paul Simon where he discusses his choices and collaborations on the album.
		That’s higher than I feel about it right now, but the album is already becoming endearing, so its kind of a prediction of what I will rate this album in 4 months.
	www.yellowsubterfuge.com /?p=24 (752 words)

	Paul Simon
		Paul Simon was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1941.
		In 1970, Simon taught composition and recording techniques at New York University, was part of the Concert for Peace at New York's Shea Stadium in August and soon afterwards began to work on his hit album Paul Simon (US#4, UK#1, Germany#39), which was released in February 1972.
		Paul Simon's end of 2000-album, You're The One, begins with two ballads, That's Where I Belong and Darling Lorraine, which are tearfully sentimental.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo14/paulsimon.htm (908 words)

	Amazon.ca: Graceland: Music: Paul Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Graceland was the first album I owned and the first album that I remember hearing in its wonderful entirety (I was only 5 when it was released).
		Although Rhythm of the Saints is also a great album, Paul Simon has not written anything as good as this since he wrote it.
		Simon's collaboration with the South African artists featured on this disc creates a surprisingly compatible blending of the new and the familiar.
	www.amazon.ca /Graceland-Paul-Simon/dp/B00000E9O7 (1027 words)

	Amazon.com: You're The One: Music: Paul Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Paul Simon is 57, about to turn 58, and to many young people that's considered old.
		Paul Simon's first two solo albums set a pretty high standard; they were better than anything from Simon and Garfunkel, and "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" was one of the few perfect albums in music history.
		Paul Simon is the veteran Master of veteran Masters--of the art of Rock & Roll.
	www.amazon.com /Youre-One-Paul-Simon/dp/B00004XQP0 (1453 words)

	Early Paul Simon Album Seeing First U.S. Release \| RockAndMetal.com
		NEW YORK, NY, USA - An album PAUL SIMON recorded in 1965 that has never seen the light of day in America will get its first official release here this spring.
		Simon moved to London, building an audience while honing his material at coffeehouse performances.
		Simon & Garfunkel are eyeing a new leg of summer dates for their wildly successful "Old Friends" reunion tour, the first run of which wrapped in late December.
	www.rockandmetal.com /paulsimon.html (360 words)

	Paul Simon : Paul Simon - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		From the opening cut, "Mother and Child Reunion" (a Top Ten hit), Simon, who had snuck several subtle musical explorations into the generally conservative S&G sound, broke free, heralding the rise of reggae with an exuberant track recorded in Jamaica for a song about death.
		It was miles removed from the big, stately ballad style of Bridge Over Troubled Water and signaled that Simon was a versatile songwriter as well as an expressive singer with a much broader range of musical interests than he had previously demonstrated.
		You didn't miss Art Garfunkel on Paul Simon, not only because Simon didn't write Garfunkel-like showcases for himself, but because the songs he did write showed off his own, more varied musical strengths.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,163248,00.html (325 words)

	Paul Simon Discography - Simon & Garfunkel - 1964 to 1971
		Paul Kane was another pseudonym used by Paul Simon.
		Paul Simon sat on the steering committee for the festival with John Phillips, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson and Mick Jagger.
		Simon and Garfunkel were backed by a full band, very unusual for them at this stage of their careers.
	www.vex.net /~paulmac/simon/simon64_71.html (2401 words)

	Album Graceland by Paul Simon - AOL Music
		Paul Simon was coming off the least commercially successful album of his career - 1984's "Hearts And Bones" - and Simon was on the verge of disappearing from the pop music radar.
		Simon has said he was able to take the major artistic risks inherent in "Graceland" precisely because nobody expected anything from him anymore.
		This is an album for the ages by a master craftsman - each note, each rest, each word are all carefully chosen and remarkably placed.
	music.aol.com /artist/paul-simon/5433/album/graceland/18026 (360 words)

	The Music Box: Paul Simon - The Paul Simon Songbook (Album Review)
		Following the commercial failure of Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, Paul Simon traveled to England, where, by working the coffeehouse circuit, he achieved greater initial success and eventually landed a spot on the BBC.
		Consequently, Simon settled into CBS’s London studios to record The Paul Simon Songbook, a 12-track, solo, acoustic outing that was released only in the U.K. Interestingly, the set featured only two holdovers from Wednesday Morning, 3 AM and instead was stuffed with newer material that had yet to make it into Simon and Garfunkel’s repertoire.
		Largely, however, The Paul Simon Songbook is a quietly captivating affair that strips away layers of sound to reveal Simon’s songs for what they are — brilliant poems caressed by the gentle touch of finger-picked guitar.
	www.musicbox-online.com /ps-song.html (351 words)

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