Paul Simon's Last Tour

Simon’s singular career, which will apparently conclude later this year in New York City at the end of a farewell tour wrapping a few weeks before his 77th birthday, spans more than 60 years, from the dawn of rock ’n’ roll to the Spotify era. For almost that entire run, he’s been a major figure in popular music. His first hit, “The Sound of Silence,” topped the charts in 1966; his most recent album, Stranger to Stranger, debuted in the top three in 2016. Even his old hits have a way of coming back — Disturbed’s gloom-metal 2015 cover of “The Sound of Silence” has sold more than 1.5 million downloads, and been streamed more than 370 million times on YouTube.


From “Paul Simon vs. The World” by Steven Hyden for The Ringer


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