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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Paul Simon The Life by Robert Hilburn Paul Simon: The Life. For more than fifty years, Paul Simon has spoken to us in songs about alienation, doubt, resilience, and empathy in ways that have established him as one of the most beloved artists in American pop music history. Songs like “The Sound of Silence,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Still Crazy After All These Years,” and “Graceland” have moved beyond the sales charts and into our cultural consciousness. But Simon is a deeply private person who has resisted speaking to us outside of his music. He has said he will not write an autobiography or memoir, and he has refused to talk to previous biographers. Finally, Simon has opened up—for more than one hundred hours of interviews—to Robert Hilburn, whose biography of Johnny Cash was named by Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times as one of her ten favorite books of 2013. The result is a landmark book that will take its place as the defining biography of one of America’s greatest artists. It begins in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, where, raised by a bandleader father and schoolteacher mother, Simon grew up with the twin passions of baseball and music. The latter took over at age twelve when he and schoolboy chum Art Garfunkel became infatuated with the alluring harmonies of doo-wop. Together, they became international icons, and then Simon went on to even greater artistic heights on his own. But beneath the surface of his storied five-decade career is a roller coaster of tumultuous personal and professional ups and downs. From his remarkable early success with Garfunkel to their painfully acrimonious split; from his massive early hits as a solo artist to the wrenching commercial failures of One- Trick Pony and Hearts and Bones; from the historic comeback success of Graceland and The Rhythm of the Saints to the star-crossed foray into theater with The Capeman and a late-career creative resurgence—his is a musical life unlike any other. Over the past three years, Hilburn has conducted in-depth interviews with scores of Paul Simon’s friends, family, colleagues, and others—including ex-wives Carrie Fisher and Peggy Harper, who spoke for the first time—and even penetrated the inner circle of Simon’s long-reclusive muse, Kathy Chitty. The result is a deeply human account of the challenges and sacrifices of a life in music at the highest level. In the process, Hilburn documents Simon’s search for artistry and his constant struggle to protect that artistry against distractions—fame, marriage, divorce, drugs, record company interference, rejection, and insecurity—that have derailed so many great pop figures. Paul Simon is an intimate and inspiring narrative that helps us finally understand Paul Simon the person and the artist. “With train-wreck moments and tender interludes alike, it delivers a sharply detailed Kodachrome of a brilliant musician” (Kirkus Reviews). :ﻣﺰﯾﺪ ﻣﻦ اﻟﻤﻌﻠﻮﻣﺎت ﺣﻮل اﻟﻜﺘﺎب اﻟﺼﻮﺗﻲ .رﻗﻢ: ISBN 9781508259930 ﺗﺎرﯾﺦ اﻹﺻﺪار: 2018-05-08 اﻟﻤﺪة اﻟﺰﻣﻨﯿﺔ: 12ﺳﺎﻋﺔ 20دﻗﯿﻘﺔ Simon & Schuster Audio :دار اﻟﻨﺸﺮ .ﻣﺰﯾﺪ ﻣﻦ اﻟﻤﻌﻠﻮﻣﺎت ﺣﻮل ھﺬا اﻟﻜﺘﺎب اﻹﻟﻜﺘﺮوﻧﻲ .رﻗﻢ: ISBN 9781471174193 ﺗﺎرﯾﺦ اﻹﺻﺪار: Simon & Schuster UK 08-11-2018 :دار اﻟﻨﺸﺮ Paul Simon : The Life. Acclaimed music writer Robert Hilburn’s “epic” and “definitive” ( Rolling Stone ) biography of music icon Paul Simon, written with Simon’s full participation—but without his editorial control—that “reminds us how titanic this musician is” ( The Washington Post ). For more than fifty years, Paul Simon has spoken to us in songs about alienation, doubt, resilience, and empathy in ways that have established him as one of the most beloved artists in American pop music history. Songs like “The Sound of Silence,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Still Crazy After All These Years,” and “Graceland” have moved beyond the sales charts and into our cultural consciousness. But Simon is a deeply private person who has said he will not write an autobiography or talk to biographers. Finally, however, he has opened up for Robert Hilburn—for more than one hundred hours of interviews—in this “brilliant and entertaining portrait of Simon that will likely be the definitive biography” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). Over the course of three years, Hilburn conducted in-depth interviews with scores of Paul Simon’s friends, family, colleagues, and others— including ex-wives Carrie Fisher and Peggy Harper, who spoke for the first time—and even penetrated the inner circle of Simon’s long-reclusive muse, Kathy Chitty. The result is a deeply human account of the challenges and sacrifices of a life in music at the highest level. In the process, Hilburn documents Simon’s search for artistry and his constant struggle to protect that artistry against distractions—fame, marriage, divorce, drugs, record company interference, rejection, and insecurity—that have derailed so many great pop figures. “As engaging as a lively American tune” ( People ), Paul Simon is a “straight-shooting tour de force…that does thorough justice to this American prophet and pop star” ( USA TODAY , four out of four stars). “Read it if you like Simon; read it if you want to discover how talent unfolds itself” (Stephen King). Отзывы - Написать отзыв. LibraryThing Review. This is an interesting look at the life and songs of Paul Simon. I loved his music when I was in high school. Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Sound of Silence, and then later works, Still Crazy After . Читать весь отзыв. LibraryThing Review. A musical genius; difficult relationships with Art, with former wives, producers and with his own depressive and obsessive tendencies. Good to read while listening to his music on Spotify! Читать весь отзыв. Inside Paul Simon’s Definitive New Biography. The new book 'Paul Simon: The Life' offers unprecedented access into the private life of the singer-songwriter. Paul Simon has never had much use for drugs beyond a brief flirtation with LSD in the 1960s. But in early 1998 when his Broadway musical The Capeman closed after a mere six-week run, he turned to a powerful South American hallucinogenic, ayahuasca, to numb the pain. He’d first encountered it nearly a decade earlier when he went to South America to record The Rhythm of the Saints , but it had never been quite so useful to him. He’d dumped millions of his own dollars into the musical only to see critics tear it to shreds. He needed an escape. “The feeling was almost indescribable,” Simon told biographer Robert Hilburn. “You couldn’t imagine feeling any better, and the afterglow would last for days. It also enabled me to hear new sounds in my head, which led to me being able to write songs much faster than before.” Related. Paul Simon Plots Final Leg of Farewell Tour. Related. 4 Ways Venue Owners Can Connect With Audiences During the Pandemic. How Guns N' Roses Formed. Simon had rarely talked about his ayahuasca use before sitting down with Hilburn, and it was just one of many revelatory things he told the veteran Los Angeles Times writer during their extensive interviews for the upcoming book Paul Simon: The Life. All in all, they spoke for more than 100 hours across the course of a year. Hilburn also interviewed numerous friends and associates of Simon, including the late Carrie Fisher, Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, his wife Edie Brickell, childhood best friend Bobby Susser, his brother Eddie Simon and many, many others. It’s the first time Simon has ever cooperated on a book about his life. “He’s very private,” says Hilburn. “So there were a lot of areas to explore.” Hilburn, 78, first remembers hearing Simon’s music around the time he began freelancing for the Los Angeles Times in 1966, though they didn’t actually meet until the singer’s first solo tour took him the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1973. “He wasn’t like a lot of other people I interviewed at the time,” says Hilburn. “He was very articulate. He wasn’t very chummy, but he wasn’t nervous talking about his creative process. He was very forthcoming.” Their paths crossed many other times over the next few decades, most notably in 1987 when Hilburn was the only U.S. journalist who accompanied him to Zimbabwe on the Graceland tour. “We had a bit of a relationship,” says Hilburn. “But we weren’t friends by any means. It was professional.” Hilburn retired from the L.A. Times in 2005 and turned his attention to writing books. “I said to myself, ‘Who is going to be important 50 years from now?'” he says. “My list only had seven people on it.” The first one was Johnny Cash, which lead to Hilburn’s book 2013 book Johnny Cash: The Life . The next name on his list was Paul Simon, though he got cold feet when he learned that Peter Ames Carlin was working on his own Simon biography. He mulled it over for several months and eventually reached out to Jeff Kramer, Simon’s manager. “I said to him, ‘Are you cooperating with this other writer?'” says Hilburn. “He said, ‘No, we’re not. Not at all.’ And I said, ‘Would you consider talking to me if I did a biography?’ He said, ‘Let’s discuss that.'” (It should be noted that Peter Ames Carlin’s 2016 book Homeward Life: The Life of Paul Simon is absolutely excellent.) Simon agreed to meet up with Hilburn in 2014 while he was visiting California. They threw the idea of a book around for about four hours, but Simon was noncommittal. “He said to me, ‘Why do I need a biography?'” recalls Hilburn.

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