Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland draws heavily on South African music, and includes pennywhistle solos in the traditional style, played by Morris Goldberg.

Simon's next project was the pop-folk album, There Goes Rhymin ' Simon, released in May 1973.

As a souvenir for the tour that came next, in 1974 it was released as a live album, Live Rhymin ', which was moderately successful and displayed some changes in Simon's music style, adopting world and religious music.

Warner Bros. Records had serious doubts about releasing an album of this eclecticism to the mainstream, but when it did in August 1986, Graceland was praised by critics and the public and became Simon's most successful solo album.

In an attempt to capitalize on his renewed success, WB Records released the album Negotiations and Love Songs in November 1988, a mixture of popular hits and personal favorites that covered Simon's entire career and became an enduring seller in his catalog.

The song " Train in the Distance ," from Simon's 1983 album, is about this relationship.

Simon's 1972 song " Run That Body Down ," from his second solo album, casually mentions both himself and his then-wife (" Peg ") by name.

During these sessions, Bob Dylan was downstairs recording the album Self-Portrait, which included a version of Simon's " The Boxer ".

In April 2008, Byrne took part in the Paul Simon retrospective concert series at BAM performing " You Can Call Me Al " and " I Know What I Know " from Simon's Graceland album.

* The title of Paul Simon's album Graceland and the title track was inspired by Elvis ' home.

Tommy Mottola, president of Sony Music, told Lauper to go out and make her own Graceland ( referring to Paul Simon's album ).

Paul Simon's 1987 album Graceland features a track called " That Was Your Mother " that references zydeco and Clifton Chenier, the " King of the Bayou ".

It was one of the decade's biggest hits and propelled Simon's breakthrough album No Secrets to # 1 on the U. S. album charts, where it stayed for six consecutive weeks.

In 1975, Elektra released her first greatest-hits album, The Best of Carly Simon, which became Simon's all time best selling disc and eventually reached Triple-Platinum status in the United States.

Simon's career took another upward swing in 1978 with the hit album Boys In The Trees.

1997 saw the release of Simon's third standards album, Film Noir, which was recorded in collaboration with Jimmy Webb and for which she was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Vocal Performance.

2004 also saw the release of her fourth greatest hits album, Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits, which peaked at # 22 on the Billboard charts that year (# 25 in the UK ).

The album became Simon's first Gold-certified disc since the late 1980s.

The album continued Simon's recently rejuvenated high chart profile and became Billboard ′ s Hot Shot Debut, entering the chart at number # 13.

Simon's lawsuit stated that Starbucks publicly announced it was backing out of participation in Hear Music just days before the album came out — a decision that she claimed doomed the record before it was even released.

This coincided with the UK release of the Never Been Gone album, which was released for the Mother's Day season and peaked at # 45 ( Simon's first studio album to reach the UK Top 100 since 1987's Coming Around Again ).

In 2007 he released a series of educational DVDs for children entitled Simon's Web.

Other songs, like the weary " American Tune " or the melancholic " Something So Right " – a tribute to Simon's first wife, Peggy – became standards in the musician's catalogue.

Simon's second-biggest U. S. hit, after " You're So Vain ", was 1977's biggest Adult Contemporary hit, where it held at # 1 for seven straight weeks.

From Live a recording of Simon's evergreen " You're So Vain " was released as a single in the UK.

* Carly Simon's song " You're So Vain " includes the lyric " You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte ".

Weller's detailed account of Simon's love affair with guitarist and luthier, Dan Armstrong, provides overwhelming evidence that he was in fact the inspiration for her classic hit, You're So Vain.

" You're So Vain " was Simon's breakthrough hit in the United Kingdom, reaching number three on the UK chart on its original release in 1973.

Saratoga is also referenced in Carly Simon's 1972 # 1 hit, " You're So Vain.

In 1990, they recorded a cover of Carly Simon's " You're So Vain " for a compilation called Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary.

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It replaced " I Am Woman " by Helen Reddy and was replaced by Carly Simon's " You're So Vain ".

In October and November 2008, Colman appeared in the BBC sitcom Beautiful People, based on the life of Simon Doonan, as Debbie Doonan, Simon's mother.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.

Simon's greatest triumph was the victory against superior numbers at the Battle of Muret — a battle which saw not only the defeat of Raymond of Toulouse and his Occitan allies — but also the death of Peter of Aragon — and the effective end of the ambitions of the house of Aragon / Barcelona in the Languedoc.

Simon's father was Jewish and his mother came from a family of Jewish, Lutheran, and Catholic backgrounds.

Simon's paper was eventually published in 1967.

Some of Simon's economic research was directed toward understanding technological change in general and the information processing revolution in particular.

Simon showed Garfunkel a few songs that he had written in the folk style: " Sparrow ", " Bleecker Street ", and " He Was My Brother ", which was later dedicated to Andrew Goodman, a friend of both Simon and Garfunkel and a classmate of Simon's at Queens College, who was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964.

But on the death of John he was away in Egypt for the practice of magic, and one Dositheus, by spreading a false report of Simon's death, succeeded in installing himself as head of the sect.

For the first thing which we learn from the Homilies about Simon's opinions is that he denied that God was just.

Their version was Simon's first UK success as a songwriter, and his first major hit as a composer outside of his work with Art Garfunkel.

It becomes clear that the boys have mistaken Simon for the beast and murdered him both when Golding describes " Simon's dead body move out towards the open sea ", and on the morning after when Ralph tells Piggy, " That was Simon .... That was murder ".

The Angevin property having been partly his own lands whose control was lost in the aftermath of the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), King John of England would not allow a French subject to take ownership of such an estate in England, a policy maintained by the following Regency, so the lands were split between the boys, Simon's elder brother Amaury taking the French holding ( which he promptly lost, not having his father's military accumen ) and Simon taking the English, when King Henry eventually changed the policy on his accession to power on arriving at an age of majority in 1227: both he and Simon were virtually contemporary and both had seen their lands abused by their elders during their minority.

After a charge uphill against superior forces, Simon's army was completely destroyed ; the battle was described as the " murder of Evesham, for battle it was none ".

Simon's body was cut up and different parts sent to the lords who had accomplished the most in his downfall.

Simon's first song written for himself and Garfunkel, when he was 12 or 13, was called " The Girl for Me ," and according to Simon became the " neighborhood hit.

The song was included on their respective solo albums: Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years ; and Garfunkel's Breakaway.