The Paul Simon Companion: Four Decades of Commentary

Among the most popular and gifted of current singer-songwriters, Paul Simon stands out for the diversity of his talent and of his music. In the tradition of the Companion Series titles that have preceeded it, The Paul Simon Companion collects interviews, reviews, articles, and essays on the artist and his music. The result is a biography in documents that chronicles Simons arrival on the music scene as one half of the Simon and Garfunkle duo, through his phenomenal success as a solo performer, and up to his modern experimentation with world music Paul Simon's first Broadway musical, The Cape Man, is opening this fall. Continuing interest in Simon's music in Adult-Contemporary Radio One of the most successful songwriters of our timeStacy Luftig is a New York based writer. Her lyrics have been performed both off and on Broadway.