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Simon & Garfunkel Lyrics Cover Dying Michigan Town

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:22:20 CST

Real life is underscoring art in a Midwest town even more poignantly than Paul Simon imagined. Simon and Garfunkel's famous tune " America " recounts a young man's journey from the working class Michigan town of Saginaw to seek his fortunes elsewhere. Now the song's bittersweet lyrics have turned up on vacant...

Simon & Garfunkel Together for Jazz Fest

Rob Quinn — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:37:56 CST

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel will be making their only US appearance of the year at the New Orleans Jazz Fest this April. Simon has played the festival before, but it's the first time the duo have ever appeared there together, organizers say. They join a lineup that already includes...

25 Car Tunes for Kids and Parents

Wesley Oliver — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:42:58 CDT

Parents, don’t let Disney's catalog of saccharine tunes ruin any more of your road trips. There are songs that can bridge the generation gap, Lindsay Armstrong writes on Babble: Jackson Five’s “ABC”: School the kids on the alphabet and pop music—all at once. Billy Idol’s “Dancing with Myself": If...

Simon, Garfunkel Plan New Tour

Nick McMaster — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:24:24 CST

The audience at Friday night's Paul Simon show in New York got a taste of what's to come when Art Garfunkel joined his long-time collaborator on stage for three songs: The two today announced a new tour, inspired, said Garfunkel, by the “knockout” reaction to that concert.

Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson, 40 Years Later

Peter Fearon — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:46:47 CDT

It seemed destined to be an art house anachronism. The director was inexperienced, the lead actor unknown and apparently miscast, the score cobbled together. The result, however, was one of the seminal works in the history of American cinema, "The Graduate. " As the 40th anniverary DVD is released, the San...