Paul Simon: Last News

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday, Gere said his family will be spending Thanksgiving in Madrid while discussing the move.“My wife is Spanish. Is this a problem for anybody out there?” he joked.

Paul Simon has opened up about his decision to retire hit song ‘You Can Call Me Al’.The Simon and Garfunkel singer-songwriter has grown distant from some of his most iconic songs over the years. However, of all the hits he has taken a step back from, it is ‘You Can Call Me Al’ that he has fully retired from his live shows.It was released back in 1986 from his groundbreaking album ‘Graceland’, and soon went on to become one of the defining tracks from his solo career.

Paul Simon has spoken out about his experience performing with near-total hearing loss.The Simon and Garfunkel singer-songwriter was diagnosed with hearing loss whilst recording 2023 song cycle ‘Seven Psalms’, and has since tried to find a solution for performing live with the disability.Now, Simon has spoken about his hearing impairment with CBS Mornings, admitting his journey with hearing loss was initially “incredibly frustrating”.“I was very angry at first that this had happened,” Simon admitted, adding: “I guess what I’m most apprehensive about would be if I can’t hear well enough to really enjoy the act of making music.”Simon also told CBS Mornings that he was “going through my repertoire and reducing a lot of the choices that I make to acoustic versions.”“It’s all much quieter,” he continued. “It’s not ‘You Can Call Me Al.’ That’s gone.

Ellise Shafer Could Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon finally become old friends? In a new interview with The Sunday Times, Garfunkel revealed that he and Simon had an emotional reunion at a lunch a few weeks ago. It marked the first time the two — who were one of the bestselling musical acts of the ’60s as Simon & Garfunkel — had seen each other in many years. “I looked at Paul and said, ‘What happened? Why haven’t we seen each other?'” Garfunkel said.

The Sunday Times, Art Garfunkel revealed he and Paul Simon recently shared a lunch where they spoke honestly with each other about their bad blood.“I actually had lunch with Paul a couple of weeks back, first time we’d been together in many years,” Garfunkel told the outlet. “I looked at Paul and said, ‘What happened? Why haven’t we seen each other?’ Paul mentioned an old interview where I said some stuff.

Art Garfunkel revealed that he cried at a recent reunion lunch with his former musical partner Paul Simon. 

The nominees for the 67th Grammy Awards were revealed this morning, and they are packed with big names. Beyoncé tops the list with 11 noms — including Album, Song and Record of the Year, bringing her career total to 99.

Art Garfunkel has revealed that a recent reunion with Paul Simon left him in tears, feeling he had “hurt” his former musical partner.Simon & Garfunkel were one of the best-selling acts of the 1960s, selling over 100 million records and recording timeless hits such as ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, ‘The Sound of Silence’ and ‘Mrs. Robinson’.However, they also became known for their troubled relationship, with artistic disagreements leading to their breakup in 1970.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For the last 55 years or so, you’ve had a friend in Randy Newman, if you have a thing for songs that offer eviscerating, uncompromising, even devastating dissections of the human condition and the American experiment. Or, sure, kids’ tunes, or laugh-out-loud funny ones, or memorable film-score cues — yes, all of those things, too.

David Tennant and Alex Hassell make up the ensemble cast in Disney+ series Rivals.Based on the novel by Jilly Cooper, the period drama follows the rivalry between Rupert Campbell-Black (Hassell) and Lord Tony Baddingham (Tennant) in the cutthroat, raunchy world of independent television in 1986.Other members of the cast include Aidan Turner, Victoria Smurfit, Bella Maclean, Catriona Chandler, Lisa McGrillis, Nafessa Williams, Katherine Parkinson, Oliver Chris, Emily Atack, Danny Dyer, and Luke Pasqualino.All eight episodes in the series were released on Hulu in the US and Disney+ in the UK on October 18, 2024.The show features an original score by Natalie Holt and Jack Halama, who previously worked together on 2020 film Kindred.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Libby Titus, a singer who recorded two albums in the late 1960s and ’70s before retiring from the music scene, later becoming the wife of Steely Dan‘s Donald Fagen, died Sunday at age 77. No cause of death was given. Fagen announced her death on Steely Dan’s website.

ending his farewell tour with a concert at Flushing Meadow Park in the New York borough of Queens, where he grew up.Since then, the legendary singer-songwriter has rarely performed while coping with hearing loss in his left ear. But the 82-year-old icon stepped back onto the stage for a private, intimate performance on Monday night at the Soho Sessions loft space.The star-studded event — drawing everyone from Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Bacon and Mariska Hargitay to Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Schumer and Jackson Browne — was all to benefit the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss.“This is the type of room that is conducive for him to play in at this stage with his hearing, and I think there was just mutual trust,” said Greg Williamson, who produces and curates Soho Sessions with Nicole Rechter to benefit various causes.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music In a loft-like space five floors above New York’s Soho neighborhood, one of the greatest songwriters of the past century was giving a private performance of several of his best-known songs. Paul Simon has always moved resolutely ahead with his music, incorporating global styles ranging from South American music to reggae into his intricately crafted songs even decades before his pivotal 1986 album “Graceland” helped bring “world music” to the mainstream, and his work has continued to be innovative and explorative into the present.

Netflix series Kaos.Created by Charlie Covell (The End Of The F**king World), the dark comedy series reimagines the modern world as ruled by Greek gods, led by Zeus who is fearing the end of his reign in light of an ancient prophecy.Alongside Goldblum, the show’s cast includes Janet McTeer, Cliff Curtis, David Thewlis, Killian Scott, Debi Mazar, Stephen Dillane, Aurora Perrineau, and Nabhaan Rizwan.Isabella Summers composed the show’s soundtrack. Her past credits within TV and film include Apple TV’s Physical, 2022’s Lady Chatterly’s Lover, and Lisa Frankenstein.She’s more known as a founding member of Florence And The Machine, where she is a producer, songwriter and keyboardist.Kaos features a wealth of songs by other artists, ranging from ABBA to The Kills.

EXCLUSIVE: Wayfarer Studios is adapting for the big screen, the 2020 inspirational memoir by Sanford “Sandy” D. Greenberg, Hello Darkness My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness Into an Extraordinary Vision for Life. 

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Shelley Duvall, the big-eyed, waifish performer who won the Cannes actress award for Robert Altman‘s “3 Women” and endured Stanley Kubrick’s brutal directing techniques to star in “The Shining,” died Thursday in Blanco, Texas, Variety confirmed with her partner Dan Gilroy. She was 75. Duvall was known for working with director Altman, who cast her in “Brewster McCloud” as her first screen role.

Alex Gibney has Frank Sinatra to thank for his most recent documentary  – the two-part Emmy-contending film In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon.

Declan McKenna has spoken to NME about working with CMAT, as well as his plans for Glastonbury and new material.The singer-songwriter and past Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition winner was speaking to NME backstage at last week’s BBC Radio One Big Weekend, where hailed fellow performer CMAT over the work they did together on her latest album, ‘Crazymad, For Me‘.“We’ve got a song called ‘Vincent Kompany’ that we wrote together and I helped her out with,” he said. “Her brain works incredibly quickly when you’re working with her.“She’s got the gift of the gab, which is part of her songwriting capabilities, always coming up with little quips.

his 18-show residency at Broadway’s historic Palace Theatre, Ben Platt didn’t just conjure up the spirits of Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli and other legends of the newly renovated venue.The Tony-winning star of “Dear Evan Hansen” also channeled James Taylor on a beaming rendition of JT’s 1977 classic “Your Smiling Face.” And it’s ’70s singer-songwriters such as Taylor, Cat Stevens and Paul Simon (with and without Art Garfunkel) who are the touchstone troubadours from the first notes of Platt crooning “like a canary” on his third studio album “Honeymind,” out on Friday.But right after the airy acoustic guitar balladry of opener “Right Kind of Reckless,” you realize that we’re not in Kansas anymore. The LP’s second track, “All American Queen,” comes sashaying on out as the queer anthem we needed to kick off Pride Month in June.“He was born in the sticks, right in the middle of fall/He wants to be a cheerleader, runs away from the ball/He’s got a song in his heart and a collection of dolls/And there’s a pale shade of pink on his bedroom wall,” Platt sings on this shimmering sunshine-pop bop.

Paul McCartney delivered an amusing roasting of Bruce Springsteen at the Ivor Novello Awards last night (May 23).The Boss became the first international songwriter to receive the Fellow of the Ivors Academy at Grosvenor House in London, following in the footsteps of Elton John, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and Paul McCartney.Becoming an Academy Fellow is the highest honour the organisation bestows, and with it, the iconic singer, songwriter and guitarist becomes the first American songwriter that the Academy has inducted into Fellowship in its 80-year history.Presenting the prize, McCartney who brought Springsteen onstage along with Dave Grohl during his headline slot at Glastonbury in 2022, jokingly said: “Like Bruce’s concerts, I’m going to keep this brief,” referencing the Boss’ three hour plus concerts, before adding that he “couldn’t think of a more fitting” recipient “except maybe Bob Dylan, or Paul Simon, or Billy Joel, or Beyoncé, or Taylor Swift. The list goes on.”He also spoke about his performance at Glastonbury and said he never expected the Boss to show up.“Springsteen is a Dutch name. Did you know that? In Dutch it means man in charge.

Paul McCartney honoured Bruce Springsteen by presenting him with the Ivor Novello Awards’ biggest prize yesterday (May 23).The Boss became the first international songwriter to receive the Fellow of the Ivors Academy at Grosvenor House in London, following in the footsteps of Elton John, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and McCartney himself who previously received the same award 20 years ago.Presenting the prize, McCartney who brought Springsteen onstage along with Dave Grohl during his headline slot at Glastonbury in 2022, jokingly said: “Like Bruce’s concerts, I’m going to keep this brief,” referencing the Boss’ three hour plus concerts, before adding that he “couldn’t think of a more fitting” recipient “except maybe Bob Dylan, or Paul Simon, or Billy Joel, or Beyoncé, or Taylor Swift. The list goes on.”He continued: “He’s known as the American working man but he admits he’s never worked a day in his life.”Accepting the award, Springsteen hugged the former Beatle and referenced his “long and wonderful history” in the UK, thanking the “extraordinary” fans who have been with him since his first show in Hammersmith some 50 years ago.He also spoke about his show the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, the night before (May 22).Springsteen said: “We came out last night, and I was like, ‘What is this weather? Driving rain, wind roaring But standing in front of me, in the rain, I realised: These are my people.“Some of them are young, some of them are children, and some of them… wore lines on their faces, of lives hard-weathered and well-lived.