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Music History Events: albums released January 14
• 1963 – THE THELONIOUS MONK QUARTET – ‘Monk’s Dream’
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• 1972 – PAUL SIMON – ‘Paul Simon’
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• 1977 – DAVID BOWIE – ‘Low’
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• 1980 – RUSH – ‘Permanent Waves’
• 1983 – HÜSKER DÜ – ‘New Day Rising’
• 1990 – GRUNTRUCK – ‘Inside Yours’
• 1992 – LOU REED- ‘Magic and Loss’
• 1992 – ERIC CLAPTON / OST – ‘Rush’
• 2000 – ENIGMA – ‘The Screen Behind the Mirror’
• 2002 – THE NOTWIST – ‘Neon Golden’ (GER)
• 2002 – GIRLSCHOOL – ’21st Anniversary: Not That Innocent’
• 2008 – RINGO STARR – ‘Liverpool 8’
• 2011 – ANNA CALVI – ‘Anna Calvi’ (UK)
• 2011 – MAGNUM – ‘The Visitation’
• 2011 – THE DECEMBERISTS – ‘The King Is Dead’
• 2014 – BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – ‘High Hopes’
• 2014 – SWITCHFOOT – ‘Fading West’
• 2022 – THE LUMINEERS – ‘Brightside’
• 2022 – UNDEROATH – ‘Voyeurist’
• 2022 – ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS – ‘The Boy Named If’
• 2022 – MAGNUM – ‘The Monster Roars’
• 2022 – THE WOMBATS – ‘Fix Yourself, Not the World’
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LP 1972: ‘PAUL SIMON’ (Paul Simon)
On January 14, 1972, “Paul Simon”, Paul Simon”s official debut solo album, was released in the United States. Paul had already recorded an album in England in 1965, but this would remain unreleased in North America until 2005. Released two years after his breakup with his colleague and friend from the high school days Art (more interested in his film career), the album represented the definitive announcement of the end of Simon & Garfunkel.
In 1971, Paul traveled to San Francisco to record demos and began working with different musical styles for the purpose of recording an album. Musically, “Paul Simon” was a continuation of the last album he released with Garfunkel, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” during whose recording, Art was absent for many days, absorbed in the filming of “Catch-22”, so that work was almost like a solo work by Paul.
The album contains Simon”s experiments with other music such as Latin rhythms, jazz, blues, and one of the first attempts by a white musician to compose a reggae, such as the one released as a single ‘Mother and child reunion’, grabado in Kingston with Jimmy Cliff”s usual band. (the title, “Mother-son reunion”, came to him while reading it on the menu of a Chinese restaurant). More traces of his passion for exotic rhythms can be found in “Me and Julio down the schoolyard” in which he has Airto Moreira on percussion.
“Duncan”, which was also released as a single, seems to be a cross between “The Boxer” and “El cóndor pasa” and in it he is again accompanied by the Andean group Los Incas. “Congratulations” is a melancholic waltz that references his relationship with his first wife Peg, as well as “Run that body down” in whose lyrics he refers to “Paul” and “Peg” by their own names. In “Hobo”s blues” he has the invaluable help of Stephane Grapelli, co-author of the song.
“Paul Simon” has been appreciated as one of the best singer-songwriter albums of the seventies. With the whole microphone all to himself, Simon”s voice is fitter and his songwriting talent seems greater. With “Everything put together falls apart”, the singer-songwriter provides an example of how a small two-minute masterpiece should be composed.
Critics in the United States were divided. On the one hand, the influential critic Robert Christgau gave it the highest grade and others named it “album of the year”, while there were those who missed Garfunkel”s vocal arrangements, calling it “insubstantial”. The album reached the North American Top 5 and was No. 1 in the United Kingdom and in countries such as Japan, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
- ‘Mother and child reunion’
- ‘Duncan’
- ‘Everything put together falls apart’
- ‘Run that body down’
- ‘Armistice day’
- ‘Me and Julio down by the schoolyard’
- ‘Peace like a river’
- ‘Papa Hobo’
- ‘Hobo’s blues’ (Simon, Grappelli)
- ‘Paranoia blues’
- ‘Congratulations’
A CD reissue was released in 2004, which included earlier takes of three tracks from the album, recorded in San Francisco in February 1971. In them, you can see his process of composing melody and lyrics and how the songs evolved in their final edition.