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  1. Why Occupy Wall Street's Racket Is the Folk Music of Our Time

    Mon, 17 Sep 2012

    American youths who no longer identified with the "hollowed" values and institutions that represented older generations. Paul Simon 's 1964 song "The Sound of Silence" describes a fragmented society after President John F. Kennedy's assassination

  2. The Story of Rodriguez, the Greatest Mexican American Rock Legend You Never Heard Of

    Sun, 16 Sep 2012

    Mysterians . Still, the mystery of Rodriguez is why he was never ranked with his real peers, Dylan, Neil Young, and Paul Simon by the American record-buying public, or the radio stations that fed their heads. While Bob Dylan made a facsimile

  3. 'American Idol' Recap: Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips Compete for the 'Idol' Crown

    Wed, 23 May 2012

    the night. Jennifer loved how different the song sounded and called it a "Phillip Phillips" song. Steven heard some Paul Simon in the performance and called Phillip "perfect." Reigning "American Idol" champ Scotty McCreery closed out Tuesday's

  4. Winners and Losers of the New Hampshire Primary

    Mon, 9 Jan 2012

    Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis also finishing third in Iowa behind House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt and Illinois Sen. Paul Simon . Dukakis rebounded from his Iowa loss to take first in New Hampshire and eventually secured the Democratic nomination

  5. Opinion: The 50 Best Albums Of 2011

    Thu, 5 Jan 2012

    Favorite Tracks: "Weekend" "Bienvenue" "Keep You" "Need To Know" "Hangin' On" 27. PAUL SIMON - "SO BEAUTIFUL OR SO WHAT" - Paul Simon just turned 70 and he just released his best record in 25 years. "So Beautiful Or So What" has

  6. Grammys 2011: Kanye, Adele, Foo Fighters Lead Nominations

    Thu, 1 Dec 2011

    singing their songs "Stand By Me" and "You're All I Need to Get By" respectively. Notable Grammy snubs include Paul Simon , whose critically-acclaimed So Beautiful or So What album, which many predicted would score several nods, was ignored

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  1. America Marks 10th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks

    Fri, 9 Sep 2011

    starts, " God is our refuge and strength ." The ceremony also included performances by Yo-Yo Ma, James Taylor and Paul Simon . Among the crowd gathering at the memorial plaza this morning were children too young to have been alive 10 years ago

  2. Person of the Week: Esperanza Spalding, Finding Her Voice Through Jazz

    Fri, 18 Feb 2011

    nerve-racking, not only because the president, the first lady, and the vice president were sitting there, but because Paul Simon was over there, Stevie Wonder was over there, Herbie Hancock was right over there -- I just felt overwhelmed with

  3. Kodachrome Taken Away: Last Photo Lab Processing Landmark Film to Stop

    Thu, 30 Dec 2010

    time for good. The film, given a famous shout out in Paul Simon 's 1973 song and used by countless photographers to bright colors, you give us the greens of summers," Paul Simon sang. "Makes you think all the world's a sunny day

  4. ABC News Illinois Senate Debate: Transcript Part II

    Tue, 19 Oct 2010

    but the new version that I hope Senat-- or President Obama comes forward with-- will be approved by the Congress. Paul Simon 's balanced budget amendment to the Constitution was the right idea. It's the right idea now. A new grace commission

  5. Sarah Palin Heads to Iowa, Fueling 2012 Speculation

    Thu, 16 Sep 2010

    in mind," he said. Yepsen, the former chief political correspondent for the Des Moines Register who now heads the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, predicted that Palin's brand of politics -- as well as her

  6. Eddie Fisher: The Marrying Man

    Thu, 29 Jul 2010

    Wishful Drinking" that her first marriage, to singer Paul Simon , was an attempt to marry a guy just like him. "Let's me," she wrote. "I grow up, sort of, and I marry Paul Simon . Now Paul is a short, Jewish singer. Eddie Fisher is a

  7. Paul McCartney's White House Fete

    Wed, 2 Jun 2010

    understanding and appreciation,” and commemorates George and Ira Gershwin. McCartney is the third winner – following Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder. In a glitzy East Room concert this evening, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will listen to the line-up

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Videos

  1. Inside Chicago School's Extensive Security Measures

    Wed, 19 Dec 2012

    days. You've been my big sister, the one I've always looked up to. Among the mourners, family friend musician paul simon who performed "the sound of silence." Soto did everything she could to keep her school family safe and worried teachers

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  2. Retired Sandy Hook Principal Returns to Help Community Heal

    Wed, 19 Dec 2012

    said. "You've been my big sister, the one I always looked up to." Also on hand, music legend and family friend, paul simon , what sang one of soto's favorite songs, "the sound of silence." And, in the midst of all the funerals today

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  3. Paul Simon on 'Graceland' Controversy

    Fri, 11 May 2012

    the what makes you I was invited. I was invited client laugh you. They felt very song that didn't want to an easy yeah. Feel when you first talking to About. With this. Primary in your mind how he wanted to make. Well to you know when I was 25 record came out and loved it and I was in the media and

  4. Paul Simon and Joe Berlinger's 'Under African Skies'

    Fri, 11 May 2012

    about but I have people who know what it's about much better than anybody else in the world the director Joseph and Paul Simon Aren't you you just. Something to do. Quite a bit I don't think. So something has barely recognizes me. Well

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  5. Newsweek's Final Cover: 80-Year-Old Magazine Ends Print Edition

    Thu, 18 Oct 2012

    With ad revenues down and the generation of preferred screens to paper. It makes sense and it's. Away from hearing Paul Simon and Julio down by the schoolyard help. With that line about being on the cover of Newsweek. The point was that was

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  6. Paul Simon Breaks Down His Lyrics

    Fri, 7 Nov 2008

    someone where they come from. As Paul Simon might put it kind of the days of it's a completely. experience. Paul Simon lyrics 19642008. And welcome it's that we can then again it's lyrics Paul Simon and leaving it if it's a wonderful

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  7. Recordings to Remember: Paul Simon , FDR, Ginsberg

    Tue, 6 Mar 2007

    for obscenity. Forgot Chevy Chase in this video this has to be one of the best at least a popular music videos ever Paul Simon Chevy Chase call out. Part of Simon's album Graceland.

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