That run of songs in a row is staggering. Only the top one percent of songwriters will ever write a song that comes close to the beauty, breadth and poignancy of “American Tune.” And that was arguably the fifth most popular song of those six, only “Late In The Evening,” a brilliant mix of pop, funk and jazz that had the entire Hollywood Bowl on its collective feet, is possibly lesser known. And it
Pop music writer Randy Lewis and pop music critic Robert Hilburn worked together at The Times for a quarter-century before Hilburn retired in 2006. They sat down recently to talk about Hilburn’s latest book, “Paul Simon — The Life,” to be published by Simon & Schuster on Tuesday, just ahead of Simon’s farewell tour concerts at the Hollywood Bowl on May 22, 23 and 28. This is Hilburn’s third book s
One is of all of them he is by far the one most likely to stay out of the spotlight (though he has said he’ll do occasional one-off shows, so he is not retiring from the stage for good). He has toured and recorded the least of all of them, save Franklin, in recent years. The second is, as much as I love everyone of those other artists, Simon is an icon, one of America’s five greatest rock songwrit
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