“I just started to cry”: The moment Paul Simon uncovered his favourite song of all time
Crafted by his hero.
Paul Simon
The one album that ruined a Simon and Garfunkel reunion: “I really can’t do it”
Not seeing eye-to-eye again.
The one songwriter who made Joni Mitchell change her style: “I better cut that out”
Going in a new direction.
The one song Paul Simon didn’t want anyone else to sing: “We were beside ourselves”
Not letting anyone else in.
The one band Paul Simon said are “very, very deep in the soil of American culture”
The key to great songwriting.
How marrying Paul Simon changed Edie Brickell’s songwriting process
“A lot of possibilities that I didn’t really think of before”.
‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’: The hit Simon and Garfunkel record that Paul Simon grew to resent
It signalled the end of their relationship.
Why Paul Simon felt The Beatles outmatched everyone: “They are so far ahead”
Far beyond anyone else.
Paul Simon tells Stephen Colbert his favourite American songwriters of all time: “He taught my whole generation”
“His stories were great, great stories…”