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Simon Paul
Birth at
13 October 1941
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Paul Frederick Simon was born on October 13, 1941 in Newark (New Jersey, USA), grew up in New York Queens. Together with school friend Art Garfunkel, they formed the duo Tom and Jerry and recorded the hit song Hey Schoolgirl in the winter of 1957-1958. Simon continued his musical career, and his songs "Motorcycle" (Tico And The Triumphs, 1962) and "The Lone Teen Ranger" (as Jerry Landis, 1963) briefly entered the charts. In the early 1960s, he reunited with Garfunkel in a folk duo, together releasing
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Paul Frederick Simon was born on October 13, 1941 in Newark (New Jersey, USA), grew up in New York Queens. Together with school friend Art Garfunkel, they formed the duo Tom and Jerry and recorded the hit song Hey Schoolgirl in the winter of 1957-1958. Simon continued his musical career, and his songs "Motorcycle" (Tico And The Triumphs, 1962) and "The Lone Teen Ranger" (as Jerry Landis, 1963) briefly entered the charts. In the early 1960s, he reunited with Garfunkel in a folk duo, together releasing the October 1964 album "Wednesday Morning 3 A.M." Simon's solo album The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) was recorded in the UK. Simon and Garfunkel's single "The Sound of Silence" was a very successful acoustic version of the song from the album. For the next five years, the duo successfully performed and recorded, but in 1970, after the release of the very popular CD Bridge over Troubled Water, the creative paths of Simon and Garfunkel diverged. Paul Simon again turned to solo work, and in 1972 the very successful commercial disc Paul Simon was released. Throughout the 1970s, he released successful albums "There Goes Rhymin' Simon", with the hits "Kodachrome" and "Loves Me like a Rock", and "Still Crazy After All These Years" (1975), with the leader of the pop parade "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover". The last album was named the best of the year and received a Grammy Award. After a relatively unsuccessful commercial album "Hearts and Bones", Paul Simon, interested in ethnic music (in particular - South African), recorded in 1986 disc "Graceland", which turned out to be one of the best-selling solo albums and was awarded a Grammy award as "best album of the year". Then came the album The Rhythm of the Saints (1990), in which Paul Simon turned to Brazilian music culture. In 2000, he released his second solo album in ten years, "You're the One".