Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Paul Simon" ¶ 12
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Simon and Garfunkel
Artists covered in the show include Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Seger, Billy Joel, and Don McLean.
Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably besides Bob Dylan, there were Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Carly Simon, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Nina Simone among others.
* 1941 – Paul Simon, American singer and musician ( Simon & Garfunkel )
" John Holmstrom, founding editor of Punk magazine, recalls feeling " punk rock had to come along because the rock scene had become so tame that like Billy Joel and Simon and Garfunkel were being called rock and roll, when to me and other fans, rock and roll meant this wild and rebellious music.
* The song ' Scarborough Fair ' ( popularised by Simon and Garfunkel ) has the refrain " Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme " which is also the title of their third studio album.
Simon & Garfunkel were an American music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, largely on the strength of the hit single " The Sound of Silence ".
Simon & Garfunkel have, at times, reunited to perform and sometimes tour together.
Close friends through childhood, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel grew up in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York, just three blocks away from each other.
They met in elementary school in 1953, when they both appeared in the school play Alice in Wonderland ( Simon as the White Rabbit, Garfunkel as the Cheshire Cat ).
They were classmates at Parsons Junior High School and Forest Hills High School, and began performing together in their junior year as Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis ( whose last name he borrowed from a girl he had been dating ) and Garfunkel as Tom Graph ( so called because he was fond of tracking (" graphing ") hits on the pop charts ).
Both Simon and Garfunkel have acknowledged the tremendous impact of the Everly Brothers on their style, and many of their early songs ( including " Hey, Schoolgirl ") bear the mark of this influence.
Subsequent efforts in 1958 did not reach near their initial success, and after high school the duo went to separate colleges, with Simon enrolling at Queens College and Garfunkel at Columbia University.
Simon, who had finished college but dropped out of Brooklyn Law School, had – like Garfunkel – developed an interest in the folk scene.
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.
Simon & Garfunkel at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands | the Netherlands in 1966.
A few months earlier Simon and Garfunkel had briefly reunited and experimented with a more contemporary sound and recorded a couple of songs including " Groovy Thing ".

Simon and also
Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge suggest this also for Bald's Leechbook and the anonymous Old English Martyrology.
Acts also features an emphasis on prayer and includes a number of notable prayers such as the Believers ' Prayer (), Stephen's death prayer (), and Simon Magus ' prayer ().
In spite of the bitter protest of Simon b. Abba, he also taught his daughters Greek ( Yer.
Some Afrobeat influence can also be found in the music of Vampire Weekend and Paul Simon.
In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.
Sir John Simon MP, another future Foreign Secretary, was also horrified at the tactics being used.
Following his success on Broadway and on film with The Odd Couple playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon would also be prominent in the 1970s, with films like The Sunshine Boys and California Suite.
We are told also, that the Demiurge is of a fiery nature, the words of Moses being applied to him, “ the Lord our God is a burning and consuming fire ,” a text used also by Simon.
Runyon's stories also employ occasional rhyming slang, similar to the cockney variety but native to New York ( e. g.: " Miss Missouri Martin makes the following crack one night to her: ' Well, I do not see any Simple Simon on your lean and linger.
Briton Simon Mann, a former officer in the Special Air Service, led the plot, which also included former members of the South African Army 32 Battalion.
Like many other Christian writers, he also claims that heresy began with Simon Magus, a figure whom receives mention in Acts 8: 9-13 for being a magician from the city of Samaria.
It also included figures such as Mick Jagger, and Paul Simon as themselves, although it also included other members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles playing various characters as well as numerous recognizable comedy actors, so there was no real intent to fool the audience.
" Simon Blackburn also states that the Golden Rule can be " found in some form in almost every ethical tradition ".
Kushner also wrote a response to Simon Wiesenthal's question of forgiveness in the book The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness.
Simon also collaborated with James G. March on several works in organization theory.
Simon was also interested in how humans learn and, with Edward Feigenbaum, he developed the EPAM ( Elementary Perceiver and Memorizer ) theory, one of the first theories of learning to be implemented as a computer program.
The Indiana Fever of the WNBA, also owned by Melvin & Herb Simon, are the Pacers ' sister team and also play in the Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
Julian Simon also may refer to:
The 5th generation of Keswicks are also active within the organisation, Ben Keswick, son of Simon, is group managing director of Jardine, Cycle & Carriage in Singapore and Adam Keswick, son of Sir Chips Keswick is in charge of Jardine Pacific and Jardine Motors Group in Hong Kong.
* 1265 – In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting held by Simon de Montfort in the Palace of Westminster, now also known colloquially as the " Houses of Parliament ".
His youngest daughter, Eleanor, married William Marshal's son, also called William, and later the famous English rebel Simon de Montfort.
He and Simon also launched their own short-lived comic company, Mainline Publications.

Simon and contributed
He contributed to a number of publishers, including DC, Harvey Comics, Hillman Periodicals and Crestwood Publications, where he and Simon created the genre of romance comics.
That same year, Simon and Garfunkel contributed heavily to the soundtrack to Mike Nichols ' film The Graduate, which was released on January 21, 1968, and instantly rose to No. 1 as an album.
Simon also contributed to The Seekers catalogue with " Someday One Day ," which was released in March 1966, charting at around the same time as Simon and Garfunkel's Homeward Bound.
" Simon LeVay has said, in response to letters from gays and lesbians making such criticisms, that the research " has contributed to the status of gay people in society.
In January 1982, former US Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $ 80 million, of which only $ 1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors.
Simon has contributed some of his personal resources to assist less fortunate youths through educational scholarships and beautification of California schools.
Simon also contributed the song " Be With Me " to the 1980 album In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record, which was produced by her sister Lucy and Lucy's husband, David Levine.
Carly and Lucy contributed a " Simon Sisters " song — which was called " Maryanne "— to the 1982 follow-up album In Harmony 2, which was also produced by Lucy and her husband.
Throughout the 1980s, Simon successfully contributed to several film and television scores, including the songs:
That same year, Simon recorded another album of original songs, Letters Never Sent, and contributed a Christmas song, " The Night Before Christmas ", to the soundtrack for the film Mixed Nuts.
In January 1982, former United States Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $ 80 million, of which only $ 1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors.
Simon Larbalestier, who contributed pictures to all of the Pixies albums, decided to build the set because " we couldn't find the atmosphere we wanted naturally.
With George Ripley, he edited the Christian Register, a Unitarian weekly, beginning in 1833 ; in 1834, in association with Sumner, he became editor of The American Jurist ( 1829 – 1843 ), a legal journal to which Sumner, Simon Greenleaf and Theron Metcalf contributed ; and from 1856 to 1861 he was an associate editor of the Boston Courier.
He contributed to the Information Processing Language ( 1956 ) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theory Machine ( 1956 ) and the General Problem Solver ( 1957 ) ( with Herbert A. Simon ).
Simon Wells also contributed to Dead Cities on the track " Dead Cities Reprise "
As an author, Simon Winchester has written or contributed to over a dozen nonfiction books and authored one novel and his articles appear in several travel publications including Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian Magazine, and National Geographic.
In addition to Beck, the line-up of artists who contributed to Fawcett Comics include Al Allard, Harry Anderson, Ken Bald, Phil Bard, Al Bare, Dan Barry, John Belfi, Dave Berg, Jack Binder, Alex Blum, Bob Boyajian, Bob Butts, Al Carreno, Joe Certa, Nat Champlin, Pete Costanza, Greg Duncan, Leonard Frank, Bob Fujitani, Till Goodson, Ray Harford, John Jordan, H. C. Kiefer, Jack Kirby, Andre Le Blanc, Charles Nicholas, Carl Pfeufer, Mac Raboy, Pete Riss, Ed Robbins, John Rosenberger, Kurt Schaffenberger, Joe Simon, Jon Small, Ed Smalle, Jack Sparling, John Spranger, Chic Stone, Charles Sultan, Marc Swayze, Ben Thompson, George Tuska, Bill Ward, Clem Weisbecker, Burt Whitman, Reuben Zubofsky and Nick Zuraw.
Palestinian violinist Simon Shaheen, Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu, and William S. Burroughs also contributed.
One of his most memorable records, In the Pocket found Taylor recording in the studio with many colleagues and friends, mainly Art Garfunkel ( who duetted with him on " A Junkie's Lament " and also contributed vocals on " Captain Jim's Drunken Dream "), Carly Simon ( Taylor's wife, who harmonised with him on " Shower the People "), Stevie Wonder ( who wrote with Taylor the song " Don't Be Sad ' Cause Your Sun Is Down ", a song on which he also played the harmonica ) and also David Crosby, Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt, among others.
His style has been parodied, and he was the model for Harry Enfield's character Dave Nice, although he contributed to the satire himself in good grace by appearing on Enfield's show ( and Enfield himself praised Freeman in Simon Garfield's book on Radio 1, The Nation's Favourite, by categorising him along with John Peel as " DJs who loved music " as opposed to " DJs who loved the sound of their own voices, like Dave Lee Travis ").
Thompson has noted how the growth in size of the Spanish army in the 16th – 17th centuries contributed rather to the economic collapse of Spain and to the weakness of the central government against regional rebellions while Simon Adams has put in question if there was any growth at all in the first half of the 17th century.
He contributed to a better version of a short biography of Copernicus by Simon Starowolski.
Hoffs also contributed a song to the film Red Roses and Petrol ( written and directed by Tamar Simon Hoffs ) titled " The Water is Wide.

1.555 seconds.